pbel
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What a friend we have in Israel... Netanyahu demands Jonathan Pollard a convicted traitor to America for Israel be released for Palestinian prisoners...This is why AIPAC should register as a foreign agency and not a political action committee serving an American interest group...
Israel will be the death of this nation.
Jonathan Pollard Means Israeli-American Squabbling Instead of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiation - The Daily Beast
Usually, prisoner swaps involve, well, swaps. You release my prisoners, I release yours. But what to make of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus demand that, in return for freeing Palestinian prisoners, the United States release Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen who is serving a life sentence for passing information to Israel?
This strange triangulation exposes the farce of negotiations. The New York Times quoted Netanyahus reasons for negotiating as preventing the creation of a binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and preventing the establishment of an additional Iranian-sponsored terrorist state on Israels borders. One state, two states: whatever it is, hes against it. But since he needs to satisfy both Washington and his right-wing base, Netanyahu plays the Pollard card to signal that he isnt really dealing with Palestinians; hes haggling with America.
Israel will be the death of this nation.
Jonathan Pollard Means Israeli-American Squabbling Instead of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiation - The Daily Beast
Usually, prisoner swaps involve, well, swaps. You release my prisoners, I release yours. But what to make of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus demand that, in return for freeing Palestinian prisoners, the United States release Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen who is serving a life sentence for passing information to Israel?
This strange triangulation exposes the farce of negotiations. The New York Times quoted Netanyahus reasons for negotiating as preventing the creation of a binational state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and preventing the establishment of an additional Iranian-sponsored terrorist state on Israels borders. One state, two states: whatever it is, hes against it. But since he needs to satisfy both Washington and his right-wing base, Netanyahu plays the Pollard card to signal that he isnt really dealing with Palestinians; hes haggling with America.