{"id":82284,"date":"2020-11-23T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82284"},"modified":"2020-11-23T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T07:25:29","slug":"29-05-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=82284","title":{"rendered":"Welcome home, Jonathan Pollard – opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Welcome home, Jonathan Pollard – opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

CHARLES O. KAUFMAN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s about time. Pollard has done his time, though had he been denied parole he could have served another dozen years.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Jonathan and Esther Pollard outside the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in New York City \/\u00a0 (photo credit: REUTERS)<\/span><\/p>\n

After wandering the desert for 40 years, Moses never made it to the Promised Land. After 34 years of serving a life sentence for spying in the US for Israel, Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard reportedly will go home.<\/span><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s about time. He\u2019s done his time, though had he been denied parole he could have served another dozen years.<\/span><\/p>\n

While he\u2019d been released from prison since 2015, Pollard was sentenced to live five more years in the United States. Federal officials cut him no slack, even though more than a year ago he was living in deteriorating health. He pleaded guilty 34 years ago to committing espionage in connection with providing Israeli contacts with hundreds of classified documents that he had obtained as a civilian intelligence specialist for the US Navy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 1986, when Pollard was convicted, the world has transformed technologically. Thus, one suspects Pollard\u2019s technological brain has been wiped clean. In 1986, where were we? Dial up connections? A 512K computer? A two-megabyte external hard drive?<\/span><\/p>\n

Relative to commonplace hacking today and undetected cyber violations, one thing is clear: Jonathan Pollard has spent half his life in captivity and, by all accounts, he no longer presents a danger to the world by spying. An ailing, all-but-spent convict just wants to live out his days in Israel. He\u2019s getting his wish.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said through his attorney he\u2019s looking forward to being reunited with his wife, Esther.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pollard\u2019s release is bittersweet. He could have been let go earlier for medical reasons, but he wasn\u2019t. Just five years ago, Americans felt the sting of releasing three Cuban spies for American Alan Gross. The memory of swapping five still-dangerous Taliban prisoners \u2013 terrorists \u2013 for a disgraced American soldier burns brightly in the American psyche.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the US government threw the book at him, Pollard will live out the final chapter of his life in Israel. He will return home well aware that Israel looks very different. It\u2019s an old land about to enter a new era. Pollard is finished wandering through US jurisprudence. He\u2019ll enter the land to rejoin his people.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The writer is president of B\u2019nai B\u2019rith International.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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