MKs to Biden: Show kindness and mercy for Jonathan Pollard

Pollard was a spy. Be thankful he is still alive. Remember the Rosenbergs? They were not so lucky. Where is the outcry for them? Spys are either shot, or hanged in the United States. All the outrageous barabarism that is the middle east twists reality. 21st Century tribalism will always brings strife. Is the only solution death for all sides? There is another answer?

This request is coming from representatives of a government who for 60 years has used harsh, and often deadly, collective punishment against a whole population, man, woman and child, with not ever even a hint of kindness or mercy? There's no end to their arrogance and gall!

Israel should lead by example and release Vanunu and allow him to migrate. Israel should stop arresting, torturing and imprisoning thousands of Christian and Muslim Palestinians without charges. Of course, the best solution is to release Pollard into the general prison population and the traitor's situation will cure itself in a few days. No more Pollard, no more problem.

Israel wants Jonathan Pollard released? Then quit building settlements and treat our VP the respect he deserves--while you are at it, let's keep our billions "aid" to Israel!

that a very friendly nation like the US just does not like it when it is spied upon by it's protege. It was an insult even graver than the 'untimely' publication of the East Jerusalem building plans. And yes Pollard will probably be in jail for life. So what?

How about a little more respect for your best friend the USA? How about stop biting the hand that feeds you? How about some sensible diplomacy instead of blunder upon blunder. You really don't need to monitor Palestinian incitement against Israel. You are doing such a swell job to discredit yourselves.

Pollard is a pawn who's paying the price for a double back-stabbing by a sneaky underhanded little bitch who was happily taking money and arms with one hand, while the other was reaching into her friend's pockets for things to steal. Then to make it worse, she was stealing them to trade for favors from her friend's enemy. Not one back stab, but two! Pollard's not likely to see daylight anytime soon. The scum really isn't worth all the fuss anyway.

Ask us again after you demonstrate that you even know what kindness and mercy means. Better yet, ask us afer you show some kindness and mercy in ANY of YOUR decisions. By the end of the month 1200 non-jewish children born in israel will have their deportation orders.

the last ring of hades for the rest of the Zionists.

After embarrassing Biden, there is no way in hell that the request will even get a second look...There is something called reciprocating which appears not to exist in the Hebrew language

I suppose an exchange of Pollard for a major Jewish settlement on the West Bank would be fair.

So much energy for one man a traitor. But no freedom for Palestinians...nice Passover

East Jerusalem is part of Israel..not the West Bank...there are 200 thousand arabs living and working in Jerusalem..but it is Jewish Jerusalem and will remain as such. If these arabs do not like it they can move to Ramallah or Gaza or Syria,Egypt or wherever they want. By the way Natalie who do you know on Haaretz that every ugly post of yours is posted while those of us that send supportive posts to this site are constantly denied? I smell a rat and I don't like it.

The only idiot in this equation is Biden and you know it as well as millions of Americans. Biden is a liar..a plagiarist and an embarrassment to this country. Why obama picked him is a mystery but then why the electorate in the U.S. voted for obama is another mystery. Whatever the reasons, biden is hidden away in a closet and let out sometimes,hopefully with a gag in his mouth. As for Pollard it is time for his sentence to be commuted...he has served his time and then some. Other spies,who did greater harm to the U.S,did not receive such a sentence as Pollard did. Ask Shumer,who saw all of the evidence against Pollard,why he felt that the sentence was unjust...as did Weinberger who never mentioned Pollard's name in his autobiography. Asked why..he replied Pollard was not at all important. Now take that and your remark about idiots and go where the sun does not shine.

Are those words actually in the israeli dictionary? You got to be kidding me.

Never. He harmed the US and information he took could have gone to the likes of the Chinese.

May Mr. Pollard live to be 150 years old in his cell. Judas was better than this POS, at least he was remorseful. Salaam/Shalom

hahahaha :)

Pollard out to go to Supermax and get to play footsie with Zack Moussaoui. It will do his social life good, the traitorous SOB. Mercy will be an offer of KY, for his social life.

this is not even a tin ear for political realities--hello? it is a kindness to Israel to overlook his recruitment.

First you embarrass us with our best friend by the crass idiocy of the announcement of more illegal house construction on illegal settlement as our best freind sends us their most senior representative so far to try to get peace talks started, and in the process you flout our own Supreme Court order. Then you have the utter gall to ask for mercy for a man who spied on our best friend and got caught? You shame us - and worst of all we elected you!

Jonathan Pollard richly deserves to stay in prison until he rots for calling into question the patriotism of 5 million American Jews. Any American politician who lets him out of jail would be spitting in the face of every Jew who has fought and died for the United States. It's time for Israeli leaders to be honest with the public about Pollard. He is not a zionist hero. He is a traitor to his own country and an expendable asset to Israel.

Or is that different?

Show kindness and mercy to Mordechai Vanunu! What hypocrisy.

C U N ext T uesday. anti semite arab lover. may you marry a muslim/arab man and hopefully he treats you like most arabs treat thier woman!

. . . held for years without trial.

Feeding the traitor is more kindness and mercy than he deserves.

OK, he gave secrets to Israel, the USA's only reliable ally. So what? Somebody gave those secrets to the USSR and that cost USA many billions of dollars and might have lost a war if they'd had a war with USSR. But there is no proof that it was Pollard or anybody in Israel who gave or sold USSR those secrets. USSR is gone anyway. Wny hold a grudge? No hard feelings, let him go. He did no harm. Pollard was a good Israeli who did what was best for Israel, you can't fault him that. It was only American antisemitism that got him locked up for 23 years, he shouldn't have gone to jail at all. He should have kept his job. Why let the antisemites keep winning? Free Pollard now! USA doesn't need to hide anything from Israel. Israel needs those secrets a lot more than USA does. Israel is a tiny nation threatened with destruction. USA is safe. Israel is USA's only true friend. Free Pollard! Don't try to keep secrets from Israel.

Would Israel show kindness to someone selling it's secrets for boatloads of cash? Israel can't even show kindness to it's Palestinian citizens.

Pollard should be sent to Colorado where he can commune with Zach Moussaoui.

Why should the US do anything at all for Israel right now? With Israel's latest moves, the only thing we should give Israel is freedom- from our money, and from our protection.

You should your interior minister ask Biden himself. Bahahahahaha!

Speaking as an American who has in the past supported and invested in Israel...... Is there no limit to what some Israelis expect from the U.S? Israel is, in theory, an ally to our country, and yet even though the U.S. has gone to extremes to support Israel in every way possible--even against its own strategic interests--Israel is caught spying on the U.S. and has the temerity to ask that the U.S. release the convicted spy?

He did vast damage to US intelligence gathering with much of the information being passed on to the Soviet Union. Let him rot.

Israel embarrassed Biden? No, it embarrassed all of us whose taxpayer money is given to these occupiers. And we should repay this embarrassment by freeing Pollard? Not on your life! Let him rot in prison.

Interesting that the letter asks for kindness towards "the Jewish people". NOT to israel, but to the JEWS. 1. Sorry, dont free him for me. Dont ask for this on my behalf, thats NOT what I want. 2. By asking to free Pollard for "the Jews" these right wing fascists are again answering the question of "dual" loyalty.

you zio's just dont know when to shut up do you? on your way out...keep it up

Why do Israelis always ask for leniency for Pollard? An American, aged 17 named Sheinbein, murder and dismembered a high school class mate, in 1997 in Rockville Maryland, escaped to Israel and never extradited back to the states.

Biden is the slave of Obama,who will never release Pollard. This would be seen as a favour to Israel,and Obama does favours only to the Arab states shown by his willingness to vist them all even bough before the Saudi's,but to refuse every request to visit Israel .

Johnathan Pollard is a traitor to the United States and should spend the rest of his life behind bars. Did Israel show Mordechai Vanunu kindness and mercy? He suffered "cruel and barbaric treatment" at the hands of Israeli authorities while in prison. Even though he is out of jail, his freedom of speech and movement is extremely restricted. How about some kindness and mercy for him.

Do the MKs mean that America should show him the same sort of kindness that Israel showed to Rachel Corie? Just a thought.

Boy does the irony ever grow. Snub Biden, Allow for more illegal housing and then ask a favor? I hope that the US does not kowtow to this BS. Get a life Israel, you are losing support from jews around the world. P.S. - Watch how many comments people make about me being an (Jewish) anti-semite...

He was foolish to behave as spy. The way things are, if he had openly given those papers to Israel, no one would have touched him. Most of the leaders in USA do not want to offend these people as that might come back to them in a different way. Most of these are openly supporting Israel as if they live there.

you idiots!

-ed in US :throwing a fit when releasing of Pollard was proposed .

As a disgraced vp who tells that Israel can live with a nuclear Iran, you cannot expect any kindnes from such a human (being?).

The timing of this request is as bad as the timing of the announcement to build 1600 homes in EJ!