The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said Wednesday his committee will look into a report that the United States spied on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and in the process swept up communications with Congress. Speaking to The Associated Press, Nunes said he had asked the director of National Intelligence and […]
With Jonathan Pollard’s release imminent, Israel has been pushing to persuade US President Barack Obama to allow him to leave the country and move to Israel. So far, Obama has not agreed to this, a report on Army Radio said Thursday, but after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu brought the issue up with Obama last week, the […]
Longtime prisoner Jonathan Pollard has just left the Federal Correction Complex in Butner, North Carolina, after over 30 years of being held on espionage charges, his wife Esther announced shortly after 11 a.m. Friday. Esther and a number of Pollard’s closest confidantes were waiting to greet Pollard as he first tasted freedom, at 4:15 a.m. EST; from there they […]
A release date has officially been set for Jonathan Pollard After spending 30 years in an American prison, Jonathan Pollard’s release date has finally been set. It was announced that Pollard will be released on November 20. Pollard has spent over half his life in prison on the charges of spying for Israel.
Israeli source says Pollard deal is in the process of being secured – but at what cost? By Uzi Baruch An Israeli official has confirmed to Arutz Sheva that a deal to secure Jonathan Pollard’s release over the next two weeks has crystallized, in a bid to exchange him with over 400 Palestinian Arab terrorists […]
The Jewish magazine Tablet on Thursday sharply criticized the ongoing US refusal to free Jonathan Pollard, now in his 29th year behind American bars for passing secret documents to Israel. The article argues that Pollard’s incarceration reveals anti-Semitism in the American government. It is noted that Pollard’s crime carries a maximum sentence of 10 years, and that […]
Former minister Rafi Eitan, the former handler of Jonathan Pollard, believes that this time, Israeli efforts to win Pollard’s freedom may yield results. Pollard is serving a life sentence in prison for sharing classified United States intelligence information with Israel in the 1980s. Israeli activists have sought his freedom for many years. They have increasingly […]
Ahead of Tuesday’s International Human Rights Day, a Facebook post surfaced Monday on the Hebrew-language “Free Jonathan Pollard” page reminding readers around the world to act for the Israeli prisoners’ release. The poster, above, reads “Where is Justice and Human Rights for Jonathan Pollard?” and compares the case with that of Iranian agent Motjaba Atarodi. Atarodi […]
Jonathan Pollard, who has spent more than 27 years and more than 10,000 days in American prison, is breaking his silence. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, which will appear on Friday, Pollard criticizes the Israeli government “over the past 60 years” on issues such as evicting Jewish communities, releasing murderous terrorists and his […]
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Arutz Sheva, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said that the situation with Iran “is very perilous” because the regime “is close to achieving its twenty year long objective of getting nuclear weapons.” “I don’t think the economic sanctions have slowed the program down at all […]
