It'll be tough for President Obama's motorcade to miss an effort launched by Israelis that seeks to prod the White House into releasing Jonathan Pollard, who is serving a life sentence in the U.S. for spying for Israel.
Signs urging Pollard's release are plastered around town, including one that shows a drawing of Obama and one of Pollard, with the words, "Yes You Can!" President Shimon Peres has said he'll personally ask for Pollard's release when he greets Obama Wednesday at the airport.
The White House is disinclined to let Pollard out of the sentence, with Obama telling Israeli TV last week that he has no plan "for releasing Jonathan Pollard immediately."
They want to remind Obama while he is there that their nation spies on us?
Might be best to rethink that.
I suppose that they are not in English means they are for internal consumption anyway.
Posted by: dominicsmith | March 19, 2013 at 10:11 PM
Spying against your own country should result in a death sentence.
That's the penalty in Israel.
And the reason Pollard shouldn't meet that fate, much less be released is......what?
Posted by: Mack Jackson | March 19, 2013 at 09:32 PM