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Jonathan Pollard said hospitalized due to decline in health
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Published: 06.03.14, 14:22
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1. If he lives to be released on parole in November 2015, he
Rivkah   (03.06.14)
should get the hell out of the USA even though the parole rules may require he stay in the USA. His trust of a plea bargain that US officials betrayed shows the US cannot be trusted to whatever it agrees to concerning Jonathan Pollard. He needs to get out of the USA and never come back if he is released.
2. Wait a minute, here ....
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.06.14)
Don't propagate a myth. There is no "parole" in the federal system. People who are sentenced to finite terms and behave while in prison are eligible for release after serving one-half of their sentence. Individuals who are sentenced to life imprisonment are NOT eligible for early release. The ONLY thing that will free Jonathan Pollard is a presidential pardon. Read the federal sentencing guidelines, please.
3. @1 Shame on you
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (03.06.14)
Leave our American citizen alone. He has as much of a connection to Israel as a Chinese rabbi from the planet Mars. America we separate state from religion, so his religion doesn't matter, he was born an American, raised an American when he was employed by us Americans when he betrayed us Americans. So let him do his time in his American prison and when or if he is released we will decide what to do with him according to our AMERICAN laws.
4. Convicted "Israeli" spy Jonathan Pollard....
Mike ,   Tel Aviv   (03.06.14)
Yeh right.......has he ever actually been to Israel? Enough of this farce already.
5. Rivkah, you're believing the government lie
Lila ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (03.06.14)
What you've read about his being eligible for parole and his being released on parole are two different things. Since the government refuses his top security cleared attorneys access to his file, all the parole board has to do is say "we can't release him because of what's in his file" and then he can't apply for parole for another 6 years. So forget about parole in 2015.
6. Terms of release
mea   (03.06.14)
It is well known in certain quarters that Pollard will be released in 2015. It is also known that he could have been released at any time IF he agreed to never speak about the information and especially the operations he betrayed. However the main reason Pollard stays in jail is that he has manufactured an entire industry around the lies he has marketed regarding the circumstances of his "operation" and he has made the USA look like the betrayers and liars. Pollards goy wife has fashioned him a folk hero and sold her goods to Israel who at one time could have gained from the issuance of a slight soaping down, but now will lose mightily when folkhero Pollard, who has been diagnosed with serious lacking in conscienceless goes on his folder lecture tour and spews w/o a proper handler. His release will harm US/Israel relationships--but not because he is some mighty person because he is a schmuck with no sense of nation or loyalty. He is not for Israel, not for America and only for himself. His release will make whatever dumb president does it, look like a fool and a frier.
7. MAY G.OD HELP HIM !
(03.06.14)
8. Pollard
richard Clayton ,   omaha   (03.06.14)
There is parole if you we're in before 87
9. All our politicians have to do
Sarah B ,   Tel Aviv/London   (03.06.14)
is name Jonathan Pollard's handlers. Pollard would be in Israel within a week. Those who wish to see Pollard freed need to ask themselves why our political leaders refuse to do so.
10. #3 & 6 - Release Pollard Now
David ,   Shiloh Israel   (03.06.14)
For starters I don't beleive #3 Shiek? rattle & roll or the faceless #6 mea are real comments, but a spin from some government oriented organization. If I'm wrong, prove it with your real name and location? Pollard is a Jew, and Jews are the Children of Israel, not any other nation. There is ample proof that Pollard does serve Israel. So yes, under US law he probably has done the crime and more than served the time. But that is not what this is about, right? The real traitors are weak minded Jews living in the States that hate to have their identity exposed to the point of prefering not to have Israel's interests served over the 'present' government of the USA. If you seek real traitors to the States, start looking closer to home. Your country has lost respect because it has lowered its values, and that includes raising the interests of Iran and Syria, over your true ally in Israel, and also your anti-Semitic behaviour in keeing Pollard looked up beyond the time served by others who did far worse . Release Pollard Now!
11. We Can Have Him Out Next Week
A Simple Jew ,   Beer Sheva   (03.06.14)
There is a prisoner release set for the end of March. Tell Obama, "No Pollard on the tarmac in Ben Gurion then no Arab prisoner release". Treat Pollard as a hostage. The US routinely exchanges prisoners and spies. Trade him for continuing Obama's peace process. Make Obama pay with Pollard.
12. 3 Sheik, Rattle & Roll: Pollard's US citizenship did
Rivkah   (03.06.14)
nothing to protect him from lying prosecutors who betrayed a plea bargain agreement. Israel is paying both women Pollard was married to, providing for them in Israel. That tells me who Pollard should be loyal to. Perhaps you are unaware that according to a former US Congressman, over 250,000 people are incarcerated in US prisons on frame ups by District Attorney and police frame up teams. The imprisonment rate in the USA is a greater percentage of the population than in Russia under Josef Stalin or China under Mao Tse Tung! Obviously, you have not been a victim of the US INjustice System. Pollard should spit and pee on his US citizenship and renounce it.
13. To: No. 8
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (03.06.14)
Early release has never applied to those sentenced to life imprisonment.
14. Pollard spied on Muslim enemies, never on America
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (03.06.14)
15. Pollard Is An Example To All Who Spy For Israel
World Citizen ,   the world   (03.06.14)
If you take the money from your Israeli handlers and get caught then you too can do a "Pollard's Life". Better he stay protected in prison than let out in the general population of America. They will kill him just like the US government did the Rosenbergs. And the last thing your government wants is to see is him on television, YouTube videos and countless internet websites getting on an El Al flight to Israel. It won't be good PR in a time when Israel can't buy good PR. Best let him rot in the bed he made for himself.
16. "described his condition as "not good."
split ,   US   (03.06.14)
She's peddling this crap for two decades already ,...
17. # 2 ,...
split ,   US   (03.06.14)
Like in case of Marc Rich's 'pardon' but you have to remember that it was possible only because of Clinton's 'shotcomings', that Marc's wife was kind of exotic, kind of attractive, much younger and loaded unlike Ms. Pollard or the activist that heads the committee ;) ,...
18. #9 - That is FBI, CIA, NSA, HSA ,...
split ,   US   (03.06.14)
US Office of Naval Intelligence, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, US Air Force Intelligence Agency, long list hon ,...
19. #9: half right
(03.06.14)
Pollard's Israeli handler (a famous 90 year old born in Belarus) does not want him released, because it will prove that the handler did not have Israel's best interests at heart.
20. #2 Sarah
(03.06.14)
At the time Pollard was sentenced, people given Federal life sentences with the possibility of parole were eligible for release after 30 years if good behavior. This rule was changed after 1987, but it does not include Pollard, as he was sentenced before. If Pollard continues to maintain a clean record, he will probably be out in 2015.
21. @ 12 Rivkah
sheik rattle & roll ,   USA   (03.06.14)
He is free to pee and spit as much as he wants in his little AMERICAN 8x8 prison cell, but at the end of the day he is still behind those little bars until we say he can go, and rest assured that day is far far away and when or if it does come, it will be contingent he has no contact with any foreign agents. So keep on dreaming about your hero the American traitor.
22. 21 Sheik, Rattle & Roll, USA: The traitors are the prosecuto
Rivkah   (03.06.14)
prosecutors of the US INjustice system who are framing people for reasons that can only indicate they belong to Satan and are going to hell. Former SEC DEF Caspar Weinberger said Jonathan Pollard did not significant damage to the USA and he was stunned at the life sentence after Pollard signed a plea deal agreement for clemency. Raping the American people is the favorite pastime of the US INjustice system and I ask Elohim to send every prosecuting attorney in the USA to hell who framed anyone and wrongly prosecuted anyone. That is blasphemy to perjure people and thus misuse the authority of Elohim. I ask that the prosecutor swine not only be sent to hell in accordance with Psalm 69 and 109, but that their descendants go to hell forever, too, which is what King David asked of Elohim and that request was GRANTED.
23. Pollard not a Israeli Spy
Bill ,   Skokie U.S.A.   (03.06.14)
Mr. Pollard was not an Israeli citizen or part of the Mossad, he was an American Soldier who committed TREASON. The punishment for this is death, he was given a break by being given a life sentence. I know it seems harsh, but betraying your country and it's security is a very bad crime against all of the countries citizens. He is lucky to still be alive.
24. What about a swap..
The Kibitzer ,   Adelaide, Australia   (03.07.14)
Pollard for Vanunu?
25. Pollard must be released now
CJK   (03.07.14)
pollard's prison sentence is disproportionate to his crime. pollard spied for an ally, unlike others like ames, who spied for enemies. pollard's plea deal with us attorneys was violated by the sentencing judge without objective cause. pollard has spent nearly thirty years in prison, the longest serving person for passing secret information to an ally. we are very suspicious that pollard's harsh treatment is a result of his jewish faith. pollard has been sick for years. it is time to release him before he dies in prison.
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