Re: [CTRL] Pollard to be "released" - Knesset Sends Blessings To Pollard (fwd)
In a message dated 05/27/2000 8:25:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << But even so its hard not to see what's happening here. One guy will be getting a Presidential pardon and will then return a hero with, by the way, a very sizeable bank account the Israelis have been adding to monthly all these years. The other fellow stays in prison, gets little notice, and other than the knowledge that he did the right and moral thing in the special circumstances he faced, there's not much waiting for him but for a few handouts from disorganized supporters. One is a clear traitor, defiantly manifesting the "dual loyalty" Jews collectively are sometimes tarred with. The other is a man of considerable moral conviction who has been failed by the indifferent world all around him, one which still faces growing proliferation of terrible weapons of mass destruction whose day of reckoning probably lies ahead of us all. >> Well it's the Israeli thing. You know like Mr. Deutch and his home computer. These dual citizens you know. All is well for dual citizenry. Prudy http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Pollard to be "released" - Knesset Sends Blessings To Pollard (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 22:58:21 + From: MER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pollard to be "released" - Knesset Sends Blessings To Pollard ___ __ / |/ / /___/ / /_ //M I D - E A S T R E A L I T I E S / /|_/ / /_/_ / /\\ Making Sense of the Middle East /_/ /_/ /___/ /_/ \\ POLLARD GOING "HOME" http://www.MiddleEast.Org News, Information, & Analysis That Governments, Interest Groups, and the Corporate Media Don't Want You To Know! - - - - - - - - - - IF YOU DON'T GET MER, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT! To receive MER regularly email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CLINTON READYING TO "RELEASE" POLLARD SO HE CAN GO "HOME" FEW CARE ABOUT VANUNU MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 5/26: A once Israeli-citizen languishes in prison for an act of conscience that was important to the world -- telling all he knew about Israel's massive nuclear weapons program which led to the LONDON SUNDAY TIMES expose in the 80s. He was then lured from London by a femme fatale Mossad Agent, kidnapped illegally from Rome, secretly tried and imprisoned in solitary confinement for a decade. For many years now people around the world, including European notables and movie stars, have urged and begged the Israelis to finally let him go. To no avail. Now a once American-citizen, secretly spying for Israel, is going to be released to go "home"; even while Mordechai Vanunu is left to languish in Israeli imprisonment. It's a travesty of course; but then, sadly, there are so many travesties of justice when it comes to matters Middle Eastern. Vanunu himself has told his supporters not to equate him with Pollard and not to suggest a trade. He's right again in terms of the people involved, what they did, and what their motives were -- there is no moral equivalency here, no comparison of persons and motives and actions. But even so its hard not to see what's happening here. One guy will be getting a Presidential pardon and will then return a hero with, by the way, a very sizeable bank account the Israelis have been adding to monthly all these years. The other fellow stays in prison, gets little notice, and other than the knowledge that he did the right and moral thing in the special circumstances he faced, there's not much waiting for him but for a few handouts from disorganized supporters. One is a clear traitor, defiantly manifesting the "dual loyalty" Jews collectively are sometimes tarred with. The other is a man of considerable moral conviction who has been failed by the indifferent world all around him, one which still faces growing proliferation of terrible weapons of mass destruction whose day of reckoning probably lies ahead of us all. Now Bill Clinton has attempted to project a very different image, but the reality is that when it comes to matters Middle Eastern this American President has been a captive of the Israeli/Jewish lobby as no other before him. We have detailed this abysmal and unprecedented situation in many articles in recent years. There is great opposition from within the U.S. intelligence community to the release of Jonathan Pollard for many reasons, including ongoing Israeli intelligence operations against the U.S. that no one in official Washington has the guts to pursue. Clinton tried to release Pollard in the past, but then backed away fearing the backlash from government and media. The word is, though, that Netanyahu was not wrong, Clinton had indeed promised to let Pollard go if Bibi would just keep the "peace process" going as was done at Wye River in 1998. Then Clinton backtracked when so many in the bureaucracy got so upset, the CIA director even threatening to resign. Clinton has now, we have good reason to believe, promised Barak that when he can manage to do it, when the time is right, Pollard will be Presidentially pardoned. And rest assured, when the Israeli Knesset starts passing such public resolutions calling for Pollard, "an Israeli citizen", to be released, its pretty much a done deal. Clinton will make this further payoff to the Israelis and their powerful lobby of supporters before he leaves office if he possibly can, more than likely he'll do it at the time of the next signing of whatever deal Arafat can be coerced, bribed, and threatened, to put his name to. And that may be soon, quite possibly this summer in fact. Here's the Knesset resolution, unanimously passed earlier this week: "The Knesset sends blessings of strength and courage to Israeli citizen Jonathan Pollard who has been incarcerated in an American prison for 15 years now. The Knesset calls upon the American President to grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard at once and to release him from prison. The Knesset calls upon the Prime
Re: [CTRL] Pollard
-Caveat Lector- In a message dated 12/22/1999 7:16:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Israel's Defense Ministry attorney Moshe Kochnovsky, who serves as deputy director of special affairs, reportedly met with White House officials to discuss a possible presidential pardon for Pollard despite uniform recommendations against his release from throughout the Administration. Pollard is serving a life sentence for releasing classified information to the Israeli government in the mid-1980s when he served as a civilian intelligence analyst for the US Navy. In 1986, Pollard confessed to spying for the Israeli government. He was convicted of giving away intelligence information revealing diplomatic communication codes and detailing data the United States kept on Soviet Union missile sites. >> Yeah, traitors are good people, and Israel is our friend. Prudy DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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Clinton considering pardon for Pollard
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
By Ben Anderson
CNS Staff Writer
Senior Clinton Administration officials met recently with an Israeli military
attorney who traveled to Washington to negotiate the release of convicted spy
Jonathan Pollard.
Israel's Defense Ministry attorney Moshe Kochnovsky, who serves as deputy
director of special affairs, reportedly met with White House officials to
discuss a possible presidential pardon for Pollard despite uniform
recommendations against his release from throughout the Administration.
Pollard is serving a life sentence for releasing classified information to the
Israeli government in the mid-1980s when he served as a civilian intelligence
analyst for the US Navy.
In 1986, Pollard confessed to spying for the Israeli government. He was
convicted of giving away intelligence information revealing diplomatic
communication codes and detailing data the United States kept on Soviet Union
missile sites.
As a civilian employee of the U.S. Naval Investigative Service, Pollard
supplied Israel with 360 cubic feet of classified documents. The federal
attorney who prosecuted Pollard, Joseph diGenova, said in a prior interview
that Pollard's actions put "tens of thousands of American lives at risk."
Kochnovsky was recently appointed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to
manage the Pollard case between the U.S. and Israel.
When Barak and President Bill Clinton met in July, the two agreed to negotiate
the terms in more private manners rather than opening the issue to public
scrutiny which have soured previous attempts.
During a turn of events during the October 1998 Middle East peace talks in
Maryland, then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the possibility
of Pollard's release as a condition of signing the peace agreement. That effort
to secure his released was foiled when word of the negotiations were leaked to
the press.
A report in the Ha'aretz, an Israeli newspaper, suggests that Clinton may use
Pollard's release as a final bargaining tool in the Israel-Syria peace talks.
If Clinton grants Pollard a pardon, he would do so over the objections of every
cabinet member whose advice he sought in the matter. Such a move would also
come when First Lady Hillary Clinton has been under increasing pressure from
various New York Jewish delegations that she support Pollard's release.
Last year, Clinton sought the advice of four cabinet members, giving them a
January 18, 1999 deadline to make their recommendations on Pollard's case.
Attorney General Janet Reno, Secretary of State Madeline Albright and Defense
Secretary William Cohen each recommended Pollard continue serving his life
sentence. CIA Director George Tennet reportedly threatened to resign if Clinton
released the confessed spy.
In addition to the opposition Pollard faces from Clinton's cabinet members, he
also faces growing opposition from members of Congress. In January, 14
Democrats and 44 Republican Senators signed a bi-partisan letter to the
President expressing disapproval of any effort to pardon Pollard. One week
later, Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) introduced a sense of Congress Resolution calling
on Clinton not to abandon any clemency considerations.
In August, New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind, pushing for Pollard's
release, called on Mrs. Clinton to use her status and clout to persuade the
President to grant Pollard clemency. Hikind said that Pollard's case would
become a serious issue in the campaign.
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