Yossi Melman : Surrendering its honor
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Title:How to restore your self-respect
Name:John Jensen
City: JacksonState: Mississippi
Any country with self-respect should have called in the ambassador for a demarche? The US should have broken relations with Israel over Pollard, or at least recalled the ambassador for consultations. Some of Pollard`s information got to the Soviet Union and was very damaging indeed. But so far from offering an apology, you people continue to whine about Pollard.
You can best restore your self-respect by refusing any further US military and economic aid. Try to stand on your own two feet for a change. Arms sales to China, trade in `conflict diamonds` and the ecstasy market ought to be able to tide you over. As for Pollard, we would be open to a discussion of his sentence, but only after you have released Vanunu to a neutral country. Since you always impose preconditions on every kind of discussion, you ought to be able to understand that.

What`s a "shnorrer" according to Leo Rosten? An impudent beggar, a beggar with a sense of entitlement. There you are.