Israel Matzav

America's double standard: Jonathan Pollard and the 'Palestinian prisoners'

On Channel 2's website, Udi Segal decries the United States' double standard: Its refusal to release Jonathan Pollard, on the one hand, and its insistence that Israel release 'Palestinian' terrorists on the other (link in Hebrew). Here's an excerpt from a Google translation that I have cleaned up a little bit:

Hillary Clinton has no shame to come here and ask for private talks with the Prime Minister to release prisoners as a gesture to Abbas Palestinians - but go out to journalists and to declare that the Jewish spy Jonathan Pollard [will not] be released. If you, Americans, ask security prisoners be released, maybe you will see by example, and you release this man who is more than 27 years in prison.

Surprised when Hillary Clinton's final press conference of her short visit she said that Jonathan Pollard should stay in prison. It's annoying and infuriating, that Hillary Clinton herself 12 years ago said that the fact that Pollard in prison bothers her as a citizen and as a - law. What happened all of a sudden she changed her mind and abuse? It is not clear.

It's actually quite clear. Twelve years ago, Clinton was a candidate for the US Senate in New York, a state that has the largest number and percentage of Jews of any state in the United States. Now, she is Secretary of State, and will likely never face an election again. Therefore, she can return to her anti-Semitic roots.

Read the whole thing.

Labels: gestures, Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Pollard, Palestinian prisoners

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:36 PM