Jonathan Pollard

Now's Really the Time for President Obama to Grant Clemency to Jonathan Pollard

Steven Kurlander | Posted 04.17.2012

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This week, a group of Americans and Israelis are visiting South Florida and asking assistance to gain the release of Jonathan Pollard, a civilian intelligence analyst and American Jew sentenced to life in 1986 for passing classified intelligence information to Israel.

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Dancing With Injustice on My Mind

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 12.26.2011

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I plan to dance up a storm at my daughter's wedding but will do so remembering the lives of those who have been tossed by a tempest of injustice and who languish forgotten by a community too ashamed of their errors to clamor for simple justice.

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Convicted Spy Not Allowed At Father's Funeral

AP | TOM COYNE | Posted 08.20.2011

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MISHAWAKA, Indiana — A former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel was not permitted to attend his father's funeral in ...

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The Other Jonathan

Nadia Hijab | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Israel prime minister recently appealed for the release of Jonathan Pollard from an American jail. Just a week later, Israel sent Jonathan Pollak to jail. The two men could not be more different.

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Notorious Spy Cases Around The World (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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From new reports of a detained American found with "technology" hidden in her teeth in Iran to the ongoing fervor over deported Russian "bombshell" An...

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Price for Jonathan Pollard's Release Should Be a Done Deal on Palestine

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Netanyahu were to commit to delivering definitively on an internationally-accepted two-state arrangement between Israel and Palestine, then I would support releasing Pollard to the Israelis.

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WikiLeaks Further Proves 2010 Middle East Story Is Sad

Taylor Marsh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Whatever President Obama once hoped to do in the Middle East is gone. Democrats respect him, but in the hard boiled land of Middle East politics he's proven himself very weak.

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Israel To Push U.S. For Convicted Spy's Freedom

AP | DANIEL ESTRIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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JERUSALEM — Israel's prime minister on Tuesday pledged to press President Barack Obama to release a convicted Israeli spy sentenced to life in p...

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Trade Mordechai Vanunu for Jonathan Pollard

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. should not have to release Jonathan Pollard to reward Israel for making peace. Peace should be its own reward. But Washington could offer to swap Jonathan Pollard for Mordechai Vanunu.

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Israel Seeks Release Of Jailed Spy In Exchange For Extending Settlement Freeze

The Guardian | Chris McGreal and Rachel Shabi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Israel is seeking the release of an American jailed for life for spying for the Jewish state in return for concessions in the renewed peace process wi...

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James Bond, We Hardly Knew Ye

Michael Vlahos | Posted 05.25.2011

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The American religion puts its faith in Divine Progress. But we now begin to look like ancient Greeks and Romans who looked backward to a lost Golden Age. Consider Jack Kennedy and James Bond: 1962, Dr. No.

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Surprise!!!! American Jewish "Leaders" Leap to Defend Israel

Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's what I wrote yesterday afternoon in this space: Beware, Americans. By tomorrow morning you will be hearing the "official" Jewish community pa...

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Bernie Madoff Makes Friends Behind Bars

Wall Street Journal | By DIONNE SEARCEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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A description of Mr. Madoff's prison life has emerged from interviews with current and former inmates at Butner and various lawyers, including some wh...

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Bernie Madoff Eats Pizza Cooked By Child Molester, Spends Time With Convicted Spy Jonathan Pollard: Lawsuit

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender a...

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