{"id":29439,"date":"2012-04-09T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29439"},"modified":"2012-04-09T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:06:12","slug":"israel-calls-for-release-of-pollard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29439","title":{"rendered":"Israel calls for release of Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No American supports Israel more than me, but this one Israel probably needs to just forget about. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.stripes.com\/dynamic\/stories\/M\/ML_ISRAEL_CONVICTED_SPY?SITE=DCSAS&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&#038;CTIME=2012-04-08-10-05-37\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that Israel is calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard, the former US civilian intelligence analyst at the navy intelligence Command who was convicted of releasing classified documents to the Israeli government 25 years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pollard, 57, was sentenced to life in prison 25 years ago for leaking classified documents to Israel. Many Israelis believe the sentence was too harsh and officials often demand his release.<\/p>\n<p>Those calls took on urgency after Pollard&#8217;s wife Esther said he was hospitalized after suffering extreme pain last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if he was selling intelligence to Canada, a traitor to his country is a traitor and you can&#8217;t mitigate treason. We&#8217;re just lucky it he was only selling secrets to Israel.  Before he began working for NIC and while he was working for Navy Ocean Surveillance Information Center, it was discovered that he was trying to establish relationship a relationship with South Africa&#8217;s intelligence agency. Pollard was a spy just waiting to happen. <\/p>\n<p>If the Israelis want to do something for his wife, that&#8217;s fine, but they need to stop picking at this scab and calling for his release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No American supports Israel more than me, but this one Israel probably needs to just forget &hellip; <a title=\"Israel calls for release of Pollard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29439\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israel calls for release of Pollard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}