I met with Jonathan Pollard a couple of months ago, and my wife and I had an hour discussion with him in Yeushlayim, and found him to be extremely intelligent, honest and would make a great spokesperson for Israel from the Knesset.
For those who say that Pollard is a criminal and that he sold secrets to Israel for money, I say so what??
At the end of the day, he gave those secrets to Israel, not an enemy of the USA!
Israel for political reasons abandoned him.
For those who accuse him of treating his first wife, Anne, badly, that is not true. According to an interview to The Times of Israel on Nov 20, 2015, she says that she has no idea why Jonathan divorced her. We don't know why he divorced her and he never gave her closure, but why is that an issue in his campaign??
We are not electing a pope!
If we start scrutinizing the Knesset members you will be left with a handful of honest, clean background people.
What is interesting to note is that those criticizing Pollard because of his background also hate members of the Knesset who phenomenal backgrounds like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich!
Jonathan Pollard, who was held for 30 years in a U.S. prison for espionage on behalf of Israel, intends to run in the upcoming Knesset elections.
'The country was abandoned on October 7th just as I was'
In an interview with i24NEWS he says the idea took shape after the October 7th massacre.
Which party did he join and what is his criticism of the current actors on the right of the political map?
Here is my take on Jonathan:
ReplyDeletehttps://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-contrarian-perspective-to-jonathan-pollard/
My issues with him all boil down to his susceptibility to corruption. Applying that standard to ALL members of the Knesset, Jonathan is as bad as any and better than most.
I therefore have no objections to him serving in the Knesset under the current de facto system in Israel, and would even seriously consider voting for him.