Trump to attend Jerusalem embassy opening, may pardon Jonathan Pollard

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President Trump should pardon Pollard. It would be the just thing to do after his world-historical move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Pollard’s punitive punishment was draconian. His sentence was an abomination. Pure anti-semitism. If Israel wanted to spy on the US, they wouldn’t use a Jewish man to do it. Pollard spent 30 years in prison, the longest-serving spy sentence in American history. Yet the median sentence for the offense Pollard committed — one count of passing classified information to an ally — is two to four years. Pollard received his life sentence without a trial, as a result of a plea bargain which he honored and the U.S. government violated. This was anti-human and morally depraved. Trump should redress this great injustice.

“Trump to attend J’lem embassy opening, may pardon Pollard,” by David Rosenberg, Arutz Sheva, April 29, 2018 (thanks to Mark):

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President Donald Trump will likely attend the unveiling of the new US embassy in Jerusalem, according to a report by Channel 2 Sunday evening.

While the White House has remained mum on whether the president will take part in the historic ceremony marking the official transfer of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the president has suggested recently he may fly to Israel for the event.

On Friday, President Trump hinted at a possible trip to Israel for the country’s 70th Independence Day.

“Jerusalem has been promised for many years. [Past presidents] have all made campaign promises, but never had the courage to do it. So I might go,” President Trump said at a press conference Friday.

The 70th anniversary of the state’s establishment, according to the Gregorian calendar, falls in May 14th, the date chosen by US State Department officials for the opening of the new embassy.

A report in March said Trump would not attend the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem due to scheduling conflicts.

It was reported that in the president’s place, Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner would represent the administration at the embassy’s opening ceremony.

According to a report by Channel 2 Sunday night, President Trump is in fact planning on attending the ceremony marking the opening of the ceremony, though no final decision has yet been made.

In addition, the report claims that the president is strongly considering requests to issue a presidential pardon to convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.

The 63-year-old former civilian analyst for the US Navy was convicted in 1985 and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was paroled in November 2015, after having served 30 years in federal prison….

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Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago

Jacob Golos, Klaus Fuchs, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, as well as Ethyl and Julius Rosenberg were Jewish-Russian immigrants, hell-bent on procuring national atomic secrets for the Soviet regime throughout the Manhattan Project era and into the 1950’s. Only Ethyl and Julius payed the ultimate price for their subterfuge activities, while Jacob died before becoming charged and Klaus along with David served half or less of their sentences. Except for Julius and Ethyl’s executions, no one else was incarcerated over fifteen years, half of what Mr. Pollard has already served. THAT was how America respectfully treated foreign enemy spies during the Cold War era. Jonathan Pollard is still a hated political scapegoat in the American Intelligence apparatus. The fact is that they failed miserably at keeping Israeli intelligence operations on US interests contained during the mid-1980’s. Mr. Pollard was never an aggressive agent against US interests; his efforts were directed by the Israeli Defense Forces because America refused to fully support their only true ally and faithful friend in the Middle East, Israel.
Jonathan Pollard needs to immediately have his severe parole restrictions lifted and be allowed to immigrate as soon as physically possible to Israel, where he is already seen as a long-term champion for Jewish dignity and national identity. The longer the American spy masters drag out their hateful vengeance on this sick old man who made some bad decisions thirty-some odd years ago, the worse it will be for them when all their own dark secrets finally becomes exposed in the future. What they did during this sordid matter won’t be able to be buried forever. History will not look back kindly on those American dark-op agencies that wielded such massive and unbridled power without appropriate authority in a once free and open society. Should Mr. Trump actually move forward in Mr. Pollard’s behalf, Israel should commemorate his simple gesture as a renewed hallmark of the trust in America they once held so dear. It would go a long way toward repairing relations with Israel in general, and more specifically: Jewish people everywhere.

Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago
Reply to  Gary Alan King

With the American people, from sea to shining sea, a freedom-loving hodge-podge of wonderful immigrants from all over the world, I have few problems. With the American government that is based on covert operations, secret subterfuge with malicious intent, deeply-embedded operatives in every every nation around the globe, I vehemently despise and openly object to as our perverted overlords. Their foolish aspirations of world hegemony will be the downfall of this once-great nation, and the implosion of their illicit system will soon be heard worldwide. As a people and a nation, we have not held our own government accountable for the transgressions it has created everywhere. We have forgotten the God of our Fathers. America should have been sending out missionaries, not missiles, not bringing agendas from the power-elite under the declarations of ‘national security,’ not fomenting rebellion in the hearts of lesser countries. As the world’s sole superpower, I believe that we are about to receive our just due.

“Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken
together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure
you use it will be measured back to you.”
– Luke 6:37-38 (ESV)

“On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you
and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, you shall not be
cleansed anymore till I have satisfied my fury upon you. I am the LORD. I have spoken;
it shall come to pass; I will do it. I will not go back; I will not
spare; I will not relent; according to your ways and your deeds you will
be judged, declares the Lord GOD.”
– Ezekiel 24:13-14 (ESV)

The anger of the LORD will not turn back
until He has executed and accomplished
the intents of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
– Jeremiah 23:20 (ESV)

Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago
Reply to  Gary Alan King

Please carefully read my comment above. I don’t have a broad-based hatred of America. I don’t simply equate America with her government. The People are not the problem, it is her out-of-control governing bodies that are at issue here. What the Founding Fathers created has been subverted into the world’s largest corporation that has no intent on merely serving the People to protect their inalienable rights and allow freedom to reign in every household, hamlet, city, state, and countryside. The hidden agenda is about to be fully revealed to a disbelieving population which is largely asleep, unable or unwilling to comprehend. It is wholly un-American in design and execution.

To more directly answer your most recent reply: Not at all. But it would be both honorable and right to show mercy, so that we might receive it from above in return. I know that every time someone point a finger at another sinner, there are three more pointing right back at them. We should all seek mercy, not justice. When judgment comes, none will be able to stand.

“Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
– John 8:7b (ESV)

As it is written:
“There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
– Romans 3:10-12 (NKJV)

All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
– Isaiah 53:6 (ESV)

Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago
Reply to  Gary Alan King

Again, read carefully above: Not at all. : : No. Nyet. Nada. Nope. Negatory, Space Cowboy.

You seek justice. You will get that which you seek. You can’t handle it. You should seek mercy. With that, comes pardon, which is life itself. Here’s a line you might digest a little bit easier. It’s from Gandalf, the fictional wizard in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series:

“Many who live deserve death, and some that die deserve life – can you
give it to them? Do not be so quick to deal out death and judgement. For
Even the very wisest cannot see all ends.

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
– Alexander Pope, English poet, 1711

Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago
Reply to  Gary Alan King

My sincere apologies for any offense given… none intended. Likewise, please don’t fall into name-calling. It’s not necessary and reveals yourself to be both shallow and conceited. Remember the three-fingers rule. Selah.
Shalom.

Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago
Reply to  Gary Alan King

I’m not your buddy. You’re a symptom of the overall problem. I didn’t start this string. You’re the one who responded to my comment. Try to focus on the matter at hand, instead of insinuating my perceived shortcomings. Otherwise, you just come across as a biased bully or another pathetic troll.

Gary Alan King
Gary Alan King
5 years ago
Reply to  Gary Alan King

Great… More of the same. Hope you’re done. I am.

ben  t
ben t
5 years ago

That well-known , big time, Nazi, anti-Semite Seymour M. Hersh wrote in The New Yorker Magazine, “Why Pollard Should Never Be Released,(The Traitor”), 1/18/99, pp. 26-33. Hersh details the tremendous damage Pollard inflicted on OUR Country, The United States of America. Pollard should have been executed for treason. I am shocked,saddened by this plea for him. I have been a Trumper from the beginning and will let his org. and everybody I know what I think of “pardon”.

hezi
hezi
5 years ago
Reply to  ben t

tremendous damage??
Pollard gave Israel information about arab countries, info that the US withheld from Israel. It was a felony and he paid for it, but it was not harmful or dangerous to the US. Compared to other spies he was punished disproportionately.

ben  t
ben t
5 years ago
Reply to  hezi

Obviously you haven’t googled the Hersh article in the New Yorker. Among many, many sins Pollard not only gave out info (stationing of our ships) but also our sources and METHODS of intel gathering which Israel traded to the Soviets.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

An amazing moment in world history

Suresh
Suresh
5 years ago
Reply to  DemocracyRules

Agree. And Going to war based on video made by Al-qaeda affiliates was height of stupidity.

sooner Trump wakes up better it is for America. It took Israelis to expose truth about Palestinian fakery and Lies and boy was Trump furious when he realised how he had been conned http://bit.ly/2rOmfyJ

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
5 years ago

An amazing moment in world history

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I really wish it was Trump going and not Ivanka and her husband.
They are Hillary surrogates. I am glad to see that Trump keeps them more and more in the background. Ideally I hope they return to NYC soon! Trump and his wife, Melania and the Israel Ambassador David Friedman should be the ones going.

I think it’s healthy to be proud of being Jewish but when someone is guilty being Jewish has nothing to do with it. Spying is the issue not his religion. Jonathan Pollard was a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who passed classified material to Israel — where he is considered is national hero due to his spying actions. Simply because he is Jewish doesn’t mean he should be pardoned.

Pollard was given a life sentence and yet he only served 30 years. BTW you don’t plea bargain if you are not guilty for a life sentence! I don’t understand how the U.S. didn’t honor a just sentence for spying!

He not only betrayed his country but also betrayed the military and their oath to be loyal. Since there was no trial and it was plea bargained, I’d bet he was guilty of more than one count. That could have been appealed. Treason is not just a 2-4 year sentence!

“Yet the median sentence for the offense Pollard committed — one count of passing classified information to an ally — is two to four years. Pollard received his life sentence without a trial, as a result of a plea bargain which he honored and the U.S. government violated. ”

He served 30 years and was paroled. How did the government violate that when he didn’t serve his full time? Since there was no trial, it’s hard to say what else he turned over. Maybe Israel considers him a national hero but I sure don’t! He betrayed my country!

Unfortunately being Jewish doesn’t make you automatically honorable. SOROS sure isn’t honorable. He is Jewish by blood but has since turned to atheism. Zuckerberg is censoring us and you! Zuckerberg is Jewish by blood but claims to be an atheist. Most DEMS are Jewish such as Schumer or look at the farce Russian investigation with Rosenstein who Jeff Sessions appointed! Rosenstein is Jewish too.

There are quite a few other Jews that have betrayed our country. Frankly it is not about religion but about the CRIME! There seems to be an attraction to communism and there is financial reward in spying.

* Julius Rosenberg; electrical engineer; transferred U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, sentenced to death and executed in June 1953.

* Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg; wife of Julius; transferred U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, sentenced to death and executed in 1953.

* David Greenglass: brother of Ethel Rosenberg; aided the Rosenbergs; was a Los Alamos machinist; passed drawings of atomic implosion lens to Harry Gold.

* Morton Sobell; former employee of the Navy’s Bureau of Ordnance; radar engineer and former classmate of Rosenberg.

* J. Robert Oppenheimer; top U.S. nuclear scientist; was in charge of the Manhattan Project; gave the Soviets atomic secrets.

* Morris Cohen [aka Peter Kroger]; spy recruiter; assisted the Rosenbergs; entered U.S. Army in 1942.

* Jack Soble; head of a U.S. spy ring which included ‘Agent Frost’; members of the ring were indicted/arrested in 1957.

* Victor Perlo; the CPUSA’s [American Communist party] official economist; was on the War Production Board.

* Lee Pressman; Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO] lawyer; Communist party member.

* Nathan Gregory Silvermaster; see this powerful quote from a February 25, 2000 FBI public information press release, re: its public Electronic Reading Room: “Nathan Silvermaster Group — 1,951 pages; Nathan Silvermaster was a leader of a Soviet espionage ring. This espionage investigation from 1945 to 1959 uncovered Soviet placed agents working within the U.S. Government. The case – titled Gregory, using the middle name of Silvermaster – exposed 27 individuals in the Silvermaster ring who gathered information from at least six Federal agencies to turn over to the Soviets. No indictments for espionage were returned against any subjects in the Gregory case by any Grand Jury; however, a Grand Jury did return an indictment against Alger Hiss for perjury.” That Mr. Silvermaster oversaw 27 spies — and that the FBI says so regardless of no indictments — is significant.

* “Carl Winter” [Philip Carl Weissberg]; defendant in Foley Square trial of American Communists.

* Alfred Sarant; pal of Barr; electrical engineer; worked on military radar at the U.S. Army Signal Corps lab at Fort Monmouth; recruited by Rosenberg; fled to Czechoslovakia and assumed fake identity.

* Harry Gold [real name Goldodnitsky]; chemist; part of 1940s Fuchs-Gold spy ring.

* Theodore Hall [real name Hallsberg, also claimed Holtzberg]; worked with Enrico Fermi and J. Robert Oppenheimer; “was the first to provide the Soviets with the crucial information that helped them build the bomb.”

* Yakov [Jacob] Golos; chief organizer of spying action through the American Communist party.

* Armand Hammer; millionaire; Communist; head of Occidental Petroleum; one of the world’s only millionaire/Communists.

* Samuel Dickstein; U.S. Congressman from New York. Recently-released Soviet records revealed his spying.

Unfortunately between spying and promoting communism here, some of them are Jewish! By no means is the comprehensive. Normally I would look only at the crime but since being Jewish is an issue… I have to say, they are not immune to not being criminals.

AFDQ
AFDQ
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Your lengthy post says that Jews constitute the majority of Democrats, communists and implies the majority of the American traitors. All ridiculous claims given the only 2% share of the countrie’s population – sound irrational…

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  AFDQ

Given that Jews are probably about 2% of the population it doesn’t speak well of many for them, does it? I couldn’t say of that 2 percent are guilty of spying or rooting for communism, can you? Prove to me these are “ridiculous claims”. These people were guilty and those are FACTS. Look up any name. Prove me wrong. BTW that is not a comprehensive list. YOU seem to be the one that is irrational!

What I absolutely despise is seeing Muslims hiding behind their religion as a protected class or skin color being used to be a protected class. I prefer justice be applied EQUALLY to all regardless of religion, economic status or appearance. If YOU have a problem with that, that is YOUR issue to work out on YOUR time; not mine!

ben  t
ben t
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Imho many Jews, American or otherwise. still suffer the traumas of the WW ll horrific Holocaust, endemic antisemitism in Tsarist Russia and E. Europe (engendered by the perception(?) that Jews favored the Ottomans and other Moslems over polytheistic Trinitarianism (read Maimonides) in the 1000 tr. war between Slavs and Moslems, AND the theological burden of being “God’s Chosen People” to save the entire world. Alas, European “Enlightenment” was not so deep and long-lasting as we would have wished. I am a supporter of Israel and a non-Jew.

Moya McNulty
Moya McNulty
5 years ago

BIBI NETANYAHOO is addressing THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT – RIGHT NOW – 10:30AM E.S.T. on RT (Russian TV)

Israel Forever & Ever 2018
Israel Forever & Ever 2018
5 years ago

Every nation, including Israel, has the right to hermetically seal its borders with any adjacent territory for any reason or no reason, but especially when the rulers of that adjacent territory have publicly and repeatedly stated their desire to destroy that nation.

Yet, despite Hamas’ pledge to eradicate Israel, the latter has not hermetically sealed its borders with Gaza. Instead, Israel permits daily deliveries of food, potable water, fuel, medical supplies, and construction materials to enter, and has run 10 lines of electricity to, that hostile territory.

Consequently, Israel’s alleged blockade of Gaza is the leakiest blockade in the history of warfare. And that is no way to win a war!

Jerusalem is Israel's Capital
Jerusalem is Israel's Capital
5 years ago

This is great News!

Hope the Palestinians don’t go nuts.

Jerusalem is the Eternal Capital of Israel!!!!

G-d Bless Israel!

morriscat
morriscat
5 years ago

The Arabs called Palestinians don’t have to go nuts they are more than nuts . More like evil insanity.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I wonder if the muslum Congressional IT workers who were working w/Pakistain’s ISI will get similar sentences? Or any sentence at all besides an apology for islamofauxbia?

mezcukor
mezcukor
5 years ago

great news

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Well, he seemed to have pardoned Hillary. 😉

And NOBODY cares Bill Clinton or Dan Inouye RAPED women. Both of them were powerFOOL Demoncraps.

Janet
Janet
5 years ago

Converting to Islam says it all!

Pardon Pollard!
Pardon Pollard!
5 years ago

Dershowitz said “It’s time for the U.S. to give Jonathan Pollard, who served almost 30 years, his freedom. We love spies when they spy for us, but we hate them when they spy against us. The time has come to release Pollard.”

Alan Dershowitz: ‘Time for US to Give Jonathan Pollard His Freedom

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Dershowitz also doesn’t see Hillary committing any crimes. He is also a DEM. He is smart but biased.

Janet
Janet
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

He hasn’t been biased lately while talking about so-called Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. He knows it is a bunch of BS by the left to try and destroy Trump’s presidency by any means possible. I know he’s a Democrat but lately he sounds more like a Republican.

MAS
MAS
5 years ago
Reply to  Janet

Might we be seeing Dershowitz being more pragmatic than principled?

In God we trust, all others keep your hands in plain sight…

Robin Rosenblatt
Robin Rosenblatt
5 years ago

Good

robert v g
robert v g
5 years ago

By modern-day standards(2 to 4 yrs),yes it does look like anti-Semitism.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

I respect the Jewish people very much, as well as Pamela Geller, but I think Pollard knew what he was doing, and its risks, and it was during the Cold War as well. Espionage and treason are serious transgressions, it must be said, and not easily forgotten. Would Israel show leniency to an American spy who leaked its country’s secrets?

Still, maybe everyone does deserve a second chance, especially after so long, if he has shown real remorse.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

He only served 30 years for a life time sentence for TREASON. I see NO reason for a pardon. He was guilty. Scooter Libbey was NOT guilty and deserved a pardon. I think people are seeing Trump as a soft touch and I find that disturbing.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I too am shocked at this!

I can’t let being Jewish be an excuse to not be prosecuted. Muslims play the victim care all the time. I don’t want others trying to hide behind their religion to shield them from punishment if guilty. Very disappointing…..

Fantastic New Pardon Pollard
Fantastic New Pardon Pollard
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Pollard was punished over 30 years in prison, obviously his religion was not a shield but neither should his religion be used against him by anti-Semites like Obummer.

Muslims play the victim card and Obama invites them to the White House.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Why was Pollard hit so hard for selling secrets to Israel, an ally of the free world, when the Falcon and Snowman aholes sold military secrets to the USSR, an enemy of the free world?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Judges aren’t corrupt? Have you read about the Zombie Muhammad case?

Anti-semitism is not bullsht
Anti-semitism is not bullsht
5 years ago

You sound like a silly lawyer.

I bet you overcharge your clients.

hezi
hezi
5 years ago

Pollard gave Israel information about arab countries, info that the US withheld from Israel. It was a felony and he paid for it, but it was not harmful or dangerous to the US. Compared to other spies he was punished disproportionately.

Judges Make Mistakes
Judges Make Mistakes
5 years ago
Reply to  hezi

Judges can be biased. Judges are human and can err.

Judges can be bought and paid for.

Appeal& Win
Appeal& Win
5 years ago
Reply to  hezi

Appeal.

tatka150
tatka150
5 years ago

God Bless Donald Trump. Am Israel Chai!

Let Pollard Go Home
Let Pollard Go Home
5 years ago

Pollard served over 30 years longer than any spy in US history.

Obama engineered the sick Iran deal that gave billions to Iran the traitor responsible for murdering US marines and the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world today.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

Christopher Boyce of Falcon and Snowman fame was released in 2002, even after he escaped from prison and began committing bank robberies while on the lamb. Andrew Daulton Lee, his co-conspirator (both sold secrets to the USSR, an enemy of the free world) was released in 1998 — he served 20 years, 10 less than Pollard and he sold military secrets to the USSR.

livingengine
livingengine
5 years ago

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She hates the United States.

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