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Posted: 04 Apr 2015 12:04 PM PDT
Editorial: Our Brother's Blood - J. Pollard
Posted: 04 Apr 2015 12:57 PM PDT
Rabbi Avraham Y. Heschel, Hamodia Editor [NY]
Hamodia Special Passover Edition, March 31, 2015
NB: [Square brackets] added for clarification by J4JP.
Pesach is the Yom Tov of Geulah [The Holiday of Redemption].
Every year, each member of Klal Yisrael [the Jewish Nation] merits the
possibility to achieve lofty levels of spiritual redemption; it is up to us to
take advantage of this remarkable opportunity.
It is also a most opportune time for a personal geulah [redemption].
As we prepare to usher in this glorious Yom Tov, this is the most appropriate
time to think about Yehonasan ben Malka [Jonathan Pollard]. As we get ready to
celebrate our freedom from Egyptian bondage, this is when we American Jews
should look into our own hearts and souls and examine what we have done - and
failed to do - to help Jonathan Pollard, now in his 30th year of a life
sentence, to obtain his freedom. More than a quarter century has passed since
Jonathan finished serving the median sentence of two to four years for the
crime he committed - passing classified information to an ally. No one has
served anywhere close to the amount of time that Jonathan already has for this
offense.
It is important to realize what the information that Jonathan gave the Israelis
was all about. It was not about America; it was information about Israel's
sworn enemies that America was supposed to - but didn't want to - share with
Israel.
Newly declassified documents confirmed that Jonathan, motivated by a genuine
concern for the safety of the Jews in Eretz Yisrael, gave over crucial material
relating to grave threats against Israel. This included information about how
the Pakistanis were attempting to build a nuclear-capable rocket with a range
sufficient to reach Tel Aviv; how the Iraqis were secretly manufacturing nerve
gas specifically for use against Israeli urban areas and how the Syrians were
in the process of receiving covert shipments of new surface-to-surface missiles
that were accurate enough to knock out Israeli air bases for the first time.
Another recently declassified document specifically states that Israel never
requested information from Jonathan concerning "U.S. military activities,
plans, capabilities, or equipment." These documents point to the same
conclusion: Jonathan Pollard's activities may have ruffled some feathers in the
Middle East, but there was no material impact on U.S. national security.
Continue reading: Our brothers blood
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