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Pushing their own agendas, some
advocates for Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard
diminish his chance for release.

the focus on Pollard's only hope for
release anytime soon: complete contri-
tion.
Others have used him as a symbol
ast week's
of what they say is deep-seated hostili-
effort by
ty by the current administration to
some New
alysis
Israel. They ignore that Pollard was
York politi-
prosecuted and sentenced under
cians to force Hillary
President Ronald Reagan.
Clinton to weigh in with her husband
Pollard, they imply, was convicted
on behalf of Jonathan J. Pollard, con-
of spying for a friend but is being
victed of spying for Israel in the mid-
punished as if he spied for an enemy.
1980s and now serving a controversial
That's because, they say, American
life sentence, was ostensibly an effort
policymakers, and this president in
to ratchet up the pressure for release.
particular, secretly despise Israel.
It also may have been the latest
The same charge is hurled by those
example of Jewish leaders exploiting
who
have used Pollard to berate Mr.
Pollard's plight for per-
Clinton as part of their
sonal political and com-
effort
to short-circuit
munal interests. Indeed,
U.S.
peacemaking
in
the squeeze on Ms.
the
region.
How
can
w t
Clinton could actually
trust
a
president,
they
hurt Pollard's chance for
say, who lashes out at
clemency while Bill
Israel through the
Clinton is president.
unfortunate Pollard to
Here's the biggest
mediate a fair, secure
problem for Pollard —
peace for Israel?
aside from the fervent
Simple logic argues
opposition to his release
against
attacking the
by top intelligence offi-
very
person
who must
cials and his own reluc-
make
the
decision
tance to apologize for spy-
about Pollard's fate —
ing without explanations,
the president — as
justifications or excuses:
Jonathan Pol lard
anti-Jewish
and anti-
Some of those who
Zionist.
But
some are
have rallied to his cause
more
interested
in
exploiting
Pollard's
treat him as a symbol or a useful polit-
usefulness
as
an
imprisoned,
suffering
ical tool. For all the talk of compas-
symbol. By incessantly pointing to
sion, few treat him as a flesh-and-
outside explanations for his continued
blood fellow Jew who made a huge
incarceration, Pollard's "friends"
mistake, but deserves consideration of
deflect attention from the things he
mercy after 14 years of incarceration.
must do to gain freedom, and they
Some have sought to exploit
stoke
the obsessive fury of the defense
Pollard by using his plight as an
and
intelligence
officials, who contin-
object lesson about the precarious sta-
ue
to
cite
a
probably
specious nationa
tus of Jews in this country. Even
security
threat.
Jewish "defense organizations" that
That brings us to Hillary Clinton
support his release believe anti-
who, according to most pollsters, will
Semitism was not a factor in the case.
do well with New York's Jewish voters
But some Pollard defenders, eager to
But fierce opposition to her has devel
prove that America is rife with "Jew
oped among right-of-center Jews,
hatred," argued that anti-Semitism
some of them Democrats who jumpe
was the cause of his harsh treatment.
in the past to support New York
That has consistently diminished

JAMES D. BESSER
Washington Correspondent

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