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Radio listeners hear Pollard's wife blast
Sharon and American Jewish
leaders for overlooking her husband.
secure the release of Jonathan Pollard,"
Esther Pollard told Rabbi Finman.
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According to her, Sharon could appeal
on
humanitarian grounds because her
he wife of a convicted spy for
husband
"has no immune system left"
Israel feels betrayed by the
from
years
in solitary confinement.
new Israeli prime minister
Also,
she
said, Sharon has a legal
and American Jewish leaders.
case
he
could
hand to President Bush
Ariel Sharon never mentioned the
proving how badly the Israeli agent
name of Jonathan Pollard during his
has been treated by the
meetings last month
American
courts.
with President George
Then,
she
said, there's
W. Bush, Esther
the
deal
that
former
Pollard told a Detroit-
President
Bill
Clinton
area rabbi and talk
and
former
Israeli
Prime
show host. She said
Minister
Binyamin
American Jewish lead-
Netanyahu reached
ers, who successfully
regarding Pollard's free-
won a presidential par-
dom during the Wye
don for fugitive finan-
summit in 1998. The
cier Marc Rich, failed
deal fell apart at the last
to lobby for Pollard's
minute.
freedom, which she
"It's a promise
calls "a legitimate
between
two nations,
Jewish concern."
not
between
a specific
Jonathan Pollard, a
prime
minister
and pres-
Jonathan
Pollard
former U.S. Navy
ident."
intelligence analyst, is
The reason for the
serving a life sentence
•''
Bush
administration's
for passing secrets to
reluctance,
however, is
Israel. He's served 15
anti-Israel
advisers,
she
years so far. He's cur-
said.
rently at the Federal
"Jonathan serves a
Correctional Institute
very
useful function for
in Butner, N.C.
those
elements in the
Esther Pollard, who
administration
that have
lives in Toronto, spoke
no
use
for
the
special
by phone on Oak Park
relationship between
Rabbi Herschel
Israel and the United
Finman's "The Jewish
States," she said. She did
Hour," broadcast live
not say who those "ele-
March 30 on WPON
ments" are.
1460AM.
Esther Pollard
In 1998, Donald
On the show, she
Rumsfeld
was one of
repeated the alarm she's
seven
former
secretaries
been sounding for the
of
defense
to
urge
Clinton
not to
past few weeks — that her husband is
release
Pollard.
Today,
Rumsfeld
is
ill. Without a presidential pardon, she
Bush's
secretary
of
defense.
claimed, he will die before Pollard's
Esther Pollard spoke to Rabbi
lawyers can have the guilty verdict set
Finman
for about 20 minutes and had
aside and win a new trial. With pres-
not yet taken any calls from listeners
sure from Israel, that could change,
when her call-waiting signal beeped
she said.
and she was forced to hang up to
speak to her husband.
"Uh-oh, I think it's Jonathan on the
In Sharon's Hands?
phone
now, and he can't call back,"
"Ariel Sharon is the first prime minis-
she
said.
ter who has every factor in his favor to
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