Haaretz reports:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would submit an official request to the Obama administration requesting that convicted spy Jonathan Pollard be granted temporary leave to attend his father’s funeral.
Netanyahu informed ministers from his Likud party Sunday of his decision to back the Pollard family’s own request to that effect. A group of Pollard’s supporters were planning to rally outside of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv later Thursday to demand that the Obama administration respond positively to the request.
The family asked President Barack Obama to let Pollard visit his father last week, as he was dying in hospital, but the administration refused. Some 70 members of the Knesset signed a petition last week urging Obama to accede to the Pollard family’s request.
ok
here you go
clean out/clear out
every single one
that might have a
dual loyalty
come clean on
your nuclear
activities
[sign and follow
the non-proliferation treaty]
stop oppressing the people
‘under your care’
for starters
then we’ll talk
If we let him , go we would never get him back !
So, let’s see what the “O” says about this. If he has the balls for this, which way will he go? If he allows it, then he shouldn’t be reelected. That’s not to say he should be otherwise either.
Netanyahu is beating around the bush. He should approach the Congress via AIPAC to get the job done!
After all ploy of releasing a spy——no matter who he worked for —– is less problematic to outrageous endorsement of massacre of thousands of Palestinians.
Maybe l;et him out in return for a hostage here (to guarantee his return). Bibi?
Mirza, obviously Netanyhu isn’t making this demand because he actually expects (or probably even really cares that much about it) if Pollard is released. It’s all about domestic politics.