Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard who
stole secrets from Pentagon kisses
the ground as he lands in Tel Aviv
and is met by Benjamin Netanyahu
after 30 years in a US prison
Associated Press & Daily Mail (UK),
by
Harriet Alexander
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/30/2020 9:35:30 AM
Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, arrived in the country early Wednesday with his wife, triumphantly kissing the ground as he exited the aircraft in the culmination of a decades-long affair that had long strained relations between the two close allies.
Pollard was welcomed at Israel's international airport by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who presented him and his wife Esther with Israeli ID cards granting them citizenship.(Snip) Pollard was given a life sentence and U.S. defense and intelligence officials consistently argued against releasing Pollard. But after serving 30 years in federal prison, he was released
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Californian 12/30/2020 10:00:56 AM (No. 644833)
Would love to see 30 years for all the traitors working for China or against the American people.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
sternben 12/30/2020 10:06:51 AM (No. 644838)
He was spying for money.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LadyHen 12/30/2020 10:35:02 AM (No. 644861)
"Our greatest ally" I seem to recall. I wish someone was honest.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/30/2020 10:57:28 AM (No. 644882)
He should have been executed - he gave Israel the equivalent of a cargo container full of documents. At any rate, good riddance. Israel can have him and his co-conspirator wife.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/30/2020 11:25:10 AM (No. 644903)
Weird saga.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Aud 12/30/2020 11:26:48 AM (No. 644904)
Do you get the feeling that the good old USA is just seen as Uncle Moneybags, a useful idiot?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 12/30/2020 12:25:30 PM (No. 644942)
This is what happens later when we don't execute traitors.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/30/2020 12:44:12 PM (No. 644966)
Several years ago, I read about Pollard's family pleading for his release.
Among reasons they cited, he was regularly getting raped.
So there's that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/30/2020 12:47:22 PM (No. 644969)
If you are a Democrat politician or have anything to do with Israel you are part of a big-time double standard when it comes to any sort of politically based criminal prosecution.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Mofongo 12/30/2020 12:51:00 PM (No. 644975)
Sorry, but when someone spies to ensure the survival of his country - a close US ally - contrary to the designs of the fiercely Arabist State Department, it is NOT a capital crime. Do you truly believe we don’t spy on Israel...and everyone else. Is there a conversation in the world we don’t hear?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Pete Stone 12/30/2020 1:26:40 PM (No. 645002)
Re #10: If Israel was "his country" he should have renounced his American citizenship. (It would have cost him his job and his ability to spy for "his country" though.) Since he didn't, he was a traitor to the United States.
Dual citizenship is not allowed under American law because it guarantees divided loyalties.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Mofongo 12/30/2020 1:28:29 PM (No. 645005)
Correction to #10. Pollard’s country is the United States, and that is why he received a lengthy prison sentence. I stand by the rest of my post.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bogeegolf 12/30/2020 1:46:54 PM (No. 645023)
Let’s send them more money.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Zumkopf 12/30/2020 3:02:10 PM (No. 645084)
#11, take whatever position you like regarding Pollard, but the notion that America outlaws dual citizenship is simply flatly wrong. I personally know dual nationals from more than a dozen countries. Even the State Department doesn't agree with your position. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/travel-legal-considerations/Advice-about-Possible-Loss-of-US-Nationality-Dual-Nationality/Dual-Nationality.html
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/30/2020 4:54:31 PM (No. 645176)
#11 should explain then why Ted Cruz was allowed to be a senator with his dual citizenship, given up only when he ran for president in 2016. Then there are at least three Ukrainian dual citizens/nationals I know of who were working in our WH until earlier this year, and the gal who is on Pelosi's staff as a legislative liaison. Could be at least one on any member of congress who is found to have ties to Ukraine, like Rep Shiffty. There are plenty of dual citizens in this nation, plenty in the government also. Up to a point, dual citizenship is legal, but I don't necessarily consider those that are as genuine Americans. You cannot serve two masters, even the Bible says so.
But I do think you have a great point. Those who work for our government need to fish or cut bait. Nobody should have a dual citizenship and get to work for our government. The founders were correct about divided loyalties. That is why presidents cannot be anything else by US citizens. We have a historically weird relationship to Israel, and when it comes to the bottom line, they know who is on their side. They may act in their own interests for survival at times, but they do know. As I recall, 1990 was when democrats still dominated congress too. Israel is right to not trust democrats. They love to abandon everyone at some point along the line. Even worse when Bubba became president.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 12/30/2020 5:07:34 PM (No. 645192)
We have former Presidents who actively worked against this country. Clinton giving away technology to China, Obama deliberately propping up Iran and their terrorism. They probably did more damage overall than Pollard. I could go on and on....John Brennan is a communist sympathizer and I have no doubt he supplied classified info to our enemies. And then we could list the fools like Swalwell getting caught in a Chinese 'honeytrap' and bedding a Chinese spy. Also the Dems with the spy chauffeurs and Middle Eastern IT specialists working in their office. It's a farce and 99.99% of these idiots are Dems.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/30/2020 5:15:18 PM (No. 645203)
I would like to get the full story about Jonathan Pollard. Unlike John Walker and Aldrich Ames who spied for Russia (Soviet Union), Pollard was spying for Israel -- an ally to the United States. Why did Israel feel the need to pay Pollard to spy on the United States?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pete Stone 12/31/2020 4:17:00 PM (No. 645992)
Okay, "dual citizenship" is a complicated subject.
However, when an immigrant is naturalized, he or she must first take an oath of expatriation, formally renouncing citizenship in any foreign country. Ted Cruz, like anyone born to an American citizen in a foreign country, is still an American citizen from birth. (Exception: If the American mother has not lived in the USA for at least 5 years after age 14, her foreign-born child is not a natural-born American citizen unless the father is an American. That raised all sorts of questions about where Barack Hussein was actually born, since his mother was only 18 at the time.) I've known natural-born American citizens who also had citizenship in a foreign country -- not by their own initiative but because of their parents. A friend of mine in college was born in the United States to an American mother and a French father. The French government considered him French. (This was the 1960's. If he hadn't formally renounced his French citizenship he would have been drafted to fight in the Algerian war.)
I believe our government should face "dual citizens" with a choice -- give up one or the other citizenship. If you keep your citizenship in another country you can live here as a resident alien but you can't vote or run for office. Divided loyalties are dangerous.
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