“Jonathan Pollard should be pardoned most definitely. He has been incacerated for more than 22 years, seems to be one of the longest-serving spies jailed for having spied even for a ‘friendly country’ Israel…”
Because:
1) It really doesn’t matter for whom Pollard spied. Friendly or no, Pollard violated his security oath and the trust of the American People. The secrets he betrayed were the investment and property of the American people, and not the personal piggy-bank of Pollard. The compromise of those secrets potentially put many American lives at risk.
2) By friendly countries, do you also mean South Africa and Pakistan, to whom Pollard attempted, as I recall, to deliver classified material?
3) Pollard has denied he spied for Israel, then recanted.
4) Pollard spied for personal reasons, related to his personality defects, not out of ideology, not that it matters.
Seriously, anyone who lobbies for Pollard’s release on religious grounds should have their head examined. Pollard is a Jew. So what? Pollard’s actions were criminal in the extreme, and caused no small amount of damage to Israeli-U.S. relations. Advocating for traitor like Pollard is simply an exercise in giving ammo to those anti-Semites that feel that Jews simply cannot be loyal Americans.
