please do be aware that this is a tiny summary of a 90 minute television report. Since I don't know how familiar you are with Israel I will share with you that "Uvda" (Hebrew: "Fact") is a highly respected investigative reporting program. Now to answer you question: "Why bring this up now?" Well applying Lex Parsimoniae (Occam's Razor) the simplest hypothesis is the correct one. I offer as the simplest hypothesis: Mr. Eitan felt like talking now so it was brought up now. What you may wish to ask is: Who is this program directed at? Who is Mr. Eitan actually speaking to? and how does this relate back to the ENTIRE Israeli Security Establishment - the Mossad, The ISA (aka Shin Bet), and the IDF top echelons all coming out against the behaviors of the Prime Minister of the State of Israel? The question here is: What are the services attempting to warn the people of Israel about?

and they seem to be wreaking havoc in his life even now.

but as Eitan himself said very bright man. The only reasonable explanation for him not to choose the escape plan is he probably figured it is one way plan where nobody will ever hear about him again. Mossad has carried such assignments before. He figured either Israel publicly accepts him or he goes to jail.

when one looks back at one's life and wants to "mend" things and set the record straight, before moving to the next phase of existence in the universe...

But this is a distorted description of the interview, trying to minimize how they used a naive american and threw him to the dogs. He talked about it also about 10 years ago when he went into politics, no news here. They are all into it, including Rabin and of course Peres who was always involved in dirt.

This guy, as far as I am concerned, is no hero, no lover of Israel. He is a disgusting soul. Should go back to Cuba and finish his old days with his friend Fidel. He has a machiavellian smile and a sadistic behavior. Loves more money that he loves his country. How can he brag in such a proud way that at age 19 he killed 2 guys whom he did not know and felt absolutely no guilt. He could belong to Daesh, they also kill and behead innocent people they never met. Makes me puke!!

when those tried to trade his release for sedition. Yahoo is the one who bungled everything. Yeah, sure, Obama isn't a piece of honey... but as we can see, there are people who manage, and do manage much better.

at the very least, this man was an extremely poor handler. one gets the distinct impression that pollard was poorly supervised, untrained, exploited and left without any real experience. it is obvious that he was used and considered dispensable. it is clear that the information he provided concerned arab countries. eitan himself admits that pollard was not pulled out earlier because those higher up, namely peres or rabin, wanted more information about iraq. it is also clear that pollard is still rotting in jail because certain arab countries fear being embarrassed. in the meantime mass murdering jihadists are routinely released by the obama regime. the high command of the afghan taliban, including those who had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, were released to get back one deserter.

instead of giving him refuge. Although Pollard was receiving payment for his services, he was giving Israel info., which was not ethical to the U.S. but then again not harmful. Weinstein or was it Weinberg (not Jewish) put Pollard away for this very long time. Esther, his present wife, asks for compassion of Obama - which believe is wrong approach. Other spies have been set free after much shorter periods. It is up to our government to strike some deal for Pollard's release.