EXCERPT OF A LETTER FROM JONATHAN POLLARD

THE DECISION I made may have been illegal, but I honestly thought I
was doing something morally right. Should I have just sat there and kept
silent about the Syrian and Iraqi gas threat to Israel? After all, the same
gas which the Nazis used 40 years ago to murder our European brethren
could just as easily be used today by the Arabs to exterminate the
Jewish population of Israel. WAS I REALLY EXPECTED to just let history
repeat itself without doing anything to protect our people from such a
calamity? Could you have stood by and let this happen? Granted, I broke
the law, but, to tell you the truth, I'd rather be rotting in prison than
sitting Shiva for the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who could have
died because of my cowardice. I just couldn't walk away from the
problem of America's intelligence embargo of Israel and pretend it didn't
exist. I had to act.

Abie Nathan
Ends Hunger Strike

Jerusalem (JTA) — Wan
and haggard after 40 days
without food, peace activist
Abie Nathan called off his
hunger strike "out of
respect" for President
Chaim Herzog and because
he believes he has made his
point.

JONATHAN POLLARD IS SPENDING THE
REST OF HIS LIFE IN A U.S. PRISON

He was invited to the pres-
idential residence, where
Mr. Herzog appealed to him
for 10 minutes to stop en-
dangering his life.

The Facts

In 1985 Jonathan Pollard, an American Intelligence
officer, knew that despite the information exchange agreement between
America and Israel, the department of Defense was withholding
knowledge vital to Israel. Faced with a moral decision, he did what he
felt was right. Pollard was never accused or indicted for treason,
because he did not commit treason. Pollard was not charged for placing
the U.S., its people, property, or security in any danger. He was indicted
on one count - giving information to an ally - Israel.

Mr. Nathan, who recently
marked his 64th birthday,
lost nearly 50 pounds during
his self-imposed ordeal.
He had subsisted since
April on eight pints of water
a day with some fruit juice.
He had been confined to bed
in recent days, almost too
weak to move.
Mr. Nathan's campaign,
on which he spent some
$86,000, was aimed at
repealing the law that for-
bids Israelis from having
contact with representatives

Is This Justice? Persons who have committed comparable

offenses have been given sentences of four to five years. Abdel Kader
Helmy, a rocket scientist, participated in a scheme to illegally ship
ballistic missile technology to Egypt - technology later used to help
modify Iraq's Scud-B rockets. Helmy got less than a four year prison
sentence. Pollard, who warned the Israelis about Iraqi capabilities,
got life. Why is the Pollard case the exception to the rule? Is there a
double standard in this case? Jonathan Pollard has served his time -
over 5-1/2 years. He is now a political prisoner. Any more time served is
a result of improprieties and prejudices on the part of government
officials.

Auschwitz Convent
Newly Renovated

What You Can Do?

Please help free Jonathan. Donations
to his legal defense fund are urgently needed. Contributions are tax
deductible. The fund is administered by his sister Carol Pollard.

CITIZENS FOR JUSTICE

MAIL TO:

P.O. Box 3257
New Haven, CT 06515

Also - write to your representative and senators. Ask that they use their
influence to get Mr. Pollard released from prison, ending this terrible
injustice.

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of the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
Although efforts in that
direction by his small bloc of
supporters in the Knesset
predictably failed, Mr.
Nathan, his voice hoarse,
claimed his fast had made
the public aware of the
"stupidity" of the law.
But his argument that
Israel must talk to its
enemies if it is to make
peace with them has failed
to change official policy. Mr.
Nathan served four months
in jail last year for meeting
with PLO chief Yassir
Arafat in Tunis and faces
another jail sentence for an-
other Arafat meeting.
Mr. Nathan was, in fact,
indicted last month, in the
middle of his fast. His trial is
scheduled for September.
He ended his fast by accep-
ting a bowl of soup offered
him by Mr. Herzog. He will
return to solid food only
gradually, under medical
supervision.

Paris (JTA) — The
Carmelite nuns whose con-
vent on the grounds of the
former Auschwitz death
camp has severely strained
Jewish-Catholic relations in
recent years show no prepa-
rations to move, even though
new quarters are being built
for them off the site.
Moreover, there are signs
at Auschwitz that buildings
on the site of the former
death camp have been leased
as warehouses and that a
brewery has been set up
there.
The convent itself has been
renovated and a new exten-
sion added, according to
photographs taken several
days ago by Serge Cwajgen-
baum, secretary-general of
the European Jewish Con-
gress, which circulated the
photographs here.
"Is this the attitude of
someone about to move
elsewhere?" Mr. Cwajgen-
baum asked.
The pictures of the convent
show that "the roof of the old
building has been totally
changed and a new building
has been built alongside the
old one," he said.
The photographs also show
evidence of commercial ex-
ploitation on the camp
grounds, which have been

called the graveyard of Eu-
ropean Jewry.
Photographs circulated by
the EJC show that buildings
within the camp's perimeter
have been leased to busi-
nesses for warehouses and
the signs of a brewery hang
on the wire fence.
Under an agreement
signed by European car-
dinals and world Jewish

The photographs
also show
evidence of
commercial
exploitation on the
camp grounds —
the graveyard of
European Jewry.

leaders in February 1987 in
Geneva, the convent was to
have been relocated within
three years. But the
deadline was not met.
Construction was supposed
to have begun last year on
an ecumenical center some
distance from the Auschwitz
camp site which would in-
clude a new convent. But
construction could take an-
other four to five years, Mr.
Cwajgenbaum was told
when he was in Poland last
week.

