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strengthen the perception that he still
believes what he did was justified by
Israel's legitimate needs.
Pollard apparently hopes that offi-
cial recognition will force Israeli offi-
cials to put their diplomatic muscle
behind the effort to win his release.
But recognition or not, Pollard will
continue to be viewed in Washington
as an American who spied for another
country, albeit a friendly one, not as a
foreign agent.
And U.S.-Israel relations are not
exactly at a peak today; assuming
Israel does push hard for his release,
there's little to suggest President Clin-
ton will be in a gift-giving mood.
Then there's the problem of Pol-
lard's supporters.
Even many Jewish leaders who
would now like to see Pollard released
continue to be uneasy about the way
the convicted spy has been granted
hero status by some of his backers. The
zeal of the Pollard extremists who
claim he is a political prisoner only
increases resistance to his release in the
government, and reduces the willing-
ness of mainstream Jewish leaders to
expend much political capital on his
behalf.
Jonathan Pollard was misused by
Israel, and he has been misused by
some of the people who have made a
crusade of his release. But he also has
compounded his own plight with
what seems like an ambivalent,
ambiguous kind of contrition.
His best shot at getting out of jail
may be to seek parole on humanitari-
an grounds, and to base it on an
unequivocal, unflinching, unvarying
statement that what he did was wrong
and cannot be justified under any cir-
cumstances. That also means forceful-
ly rejecting the groups that seek to
make him a Hero of Zion.
The rage of the defense and intel-
ligence communities may or may not
be justified, but it is the reality Pol-
lard must deal with if he wants to get
out. 0
Strong-Arm
Get Getting
New York (JTA) — Some Orthodox
rabbis in Brooklyn, N.Y., were accused
of backing strong-arm tactics to
change the minds of husbands unwill-
ing to grant their wives divorces,
according to the New York Post news-
paper.
The Brooklyn district attorney is
investigating the charges.
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