RESTORING ISRAEL TO GREATNESS BY JONATHAN POLLARD

 

 A case of sour grapes, Mr. Pollard?

***WARNING! NOT TO BE READ READ ON A FULL STOMACH***

ED Noor: Jonathan Pollard needs no introduction to you, dear Reader, does he? We all know of his story and the many attempts over the years by Israel to have him returned to Israel. In American history, since the creation of the ADL in 1913 to save rapist/murderer Leon Frank, which had partial success, Jews guilty of criminal enterprises have been welcomed back to Israel with open arms so the fact that all pleas to release Pollard have been rejected infuriates the Israeli people.

The fervent pleas of his wife, the heavy threats from Netanyahu, these are not working and now Pollard is dissatisfied with everyone it seems. The mindset he shows in the following writing is proof positive that this man should not be allowed freedom; he is a fanatically orthodox Jew with accordingly twisted thought processes when it comes to almost everything decent to humanity. 

Remember, as far as he and the Jewish public are concerned, according to Talmudic standards, Pollard, in his betrayal of America, was just being a good Jewish boy. My big question is:

HOW CAN ISRAEL RETURN 

TO A GREATNESS THAT NEVER EXISTED?

In the introduction to the article, these words are offered to introduce Pollard:

Jonathan Pollard is completing his 28th year of an unprecedented life sentence in an American prison for his activities on behalf of Israel.

Tip of the hat to Anne B. She knows who she is!.

By Jonathan Pollard

The Jerusalem Post

August 16, 2013

"Only a re-awakening can guarantee the future. Political process devoid of fundamental values will never end the agony or the fear for the State of Israel."

FREED PRISONER Atiya Salem Moussa returns to a hero's welcome in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Photo: REUTERS 

When tragedy strikes anywhere in the world, the State of Israel is always among the first to offer help, sending experienced rescue teams, portable hospitals and world-class medical experts to the scene. 

Israel is a world leader in medical research, farming technology, and military innovation. The country that made the desert bloom is the undisputed champion of hi-tech innovation, all of which it generously shares with the world.

ED Noor: Yada yada yada. Just wait until he gets to the meat of the matter. His concept of Israel’s “dubious honours” is very seriously twisted when held up to the scrutiny of the international community and basic human values.

Unfortunately, when it comes to morale, the State of Israel has the distinction of holding a number of world records which no other country would want.

Over the last six decades, Israel’s leaders and its judiciary have practiced the art of political expedience to such a degree that Israel is now the first and only country in the world to hold the following dubious “honours”: 

~ Israel is the only country in the world ever to voluntarily expel its own citizens from chunks of its homeland in order to hand over the land to its enemies.

~ It is the only country in the world ever to voluntarily destroy the homes and businesses of its own citizens, leaving them with shattered lives and broken promises.

ED Noor: Is he speaking of the Palestinian citizens who are bulldozed and hounded from traditional homes and farmlands? We know, of course, he is not.

~ Israel is the only country in the world ever to voluntarily dig up and transport the graves of its dead so that the land could be turned over to its enemies.

ED Noor: Israel also takes great pleasure in bombing Gazan cemeteries especially after they are stuffed with freshly slain bodies just as they did during operation Cast Lead several times so that body parts rained down upon the surrounding area.

 

The State of Israel also holds unenviable world records for betraying those who serve the state, including the following:

~ Israel is the only country in the world to restrain its military from rescuing a wounded soldier, for fear of provoking the enemy and risking its approval ratings with the world. The soldier, injured by enemy gunfire at a Jewish holy site, slowly bled to death needlessly while the IDF stood by and watched.

ED Noor: Remember the HUNDREDS of cases of the IDF preventing medical help from reaching injured Palestinians or even women in labour. Remember the IDF soldiers who shot and killed members of a family trying to rescue a maimed infant then leaving her body for the dogs to devour as the family was held hostage. No tears for that soldier who was with a group of boys who were afraid or incapable of rescuing him.

~ Israel also remains the only country in the world ever to voluntarily cooperate in the prosecution of its own intelligence agent, refusing him sanctuary, turning over the documents to incriminate him, denying that the state knew him, and then allowing him to rot in a foreign prison for decades on end, cravenly forgoing its right to simple justice for the nation and for the agent.

ED Noor: I encourage you to weep in sympathy for this poor ignored agent. How piteous is his case, the same man who is responsible directly for hundreds of American deaths, the passing of American secrets to Israel who sold them to China. Yes, pity this poor man simply because he possesses a delicate Jewish soul.

~ Additionally, Israel is still the only country in the world ever to violate its own system of justice by repeatedly releasing dangerous, unrepentant murderers and terrorists back into the civilian population with impunity. No other country in the world has ever done this! 

ED Noor: It is almost too easy to poke at this claim considering most Palestinian prisoners are guilty of no more than throwing rocks! Good lil old Israel has never terrorized in the Middle East!

In summary, Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world so befuddled by moral ambiguity that it is willing to dishonour its dead, betray its bereaved, and disgrace its citizens for the sake of political expediency.

Earlier this week, the State of Israel began the staged release of some of the worst murderers and terrorists the world has ever seen. Twenty-six out of the 104 murderers scheduled for release went free on Tuesday. Many are serving multiple life sentences for their heinous crimes and their many victims.

The blood of their victims cries out from the grave at this affront to human decency. Their cries go unheard.

ED Noor: These are Holocaust type histrionics at their finest! The weeping and gnashing of teeth, the rending of clothing... oy vey, the very criminality of it all!

The bereaved families of the victims beg and plead not to free the savage murderers of their loved ones. Their entreaties are ignored.

All the polls indicate that the overwhelming majority of Israeli citizens are opposed to the release of the murderers. It is a strange kind of democracy that pays no heed whatsoever to the will of the people.

No Israeli official has advanced a single compelling reason in support of the wholesale release of these murderers and terrorists. The claim that it “serves national interests” is spurious. There is no national interest that supersedes morality.

ED Noor: Sour grapes Mr. Pollard?

 

Israel's most famous political cartoonist on Pollard.

The second-most touted excuse is that the government of Israel was given three existentially threatening choices by its best ally, and the least damaging choice of the three was the release of murderers and terrorists.

ED Noor: OMG that evil America! They keep me in jail! By not freeing me they are threatening the world!

Did anyone at the helm ever consider that given three life-threatening choices, the only response is: “No, no and no!”? 

ED Noor: Like when you petition for release?

Overriding all objections, the government of the State of Israel is bound and determined to release the murderers, whose victims are not all dead. Some have been maimed, crippled and disfigured for life. Others show no external scars but have had parents, children and loved ones amputated from their lives. No one sees the broken hearts that will never stop bleeding for their loss.

Authentic Jewish tradition teaches in great detail how to relate to the dead with honour and reverence. The dead are not only keepers of the past; they are our teachers, our moral guides and our inspiration for the future. A country with no respect for the dead has no respect for the living.

ED Noor: Like Meir Kahane? Baruch Goldstein? These two dead zealots are honoured, their graves visited, respected. Now, how about respect for the dead of those other than Jews, Mr. Pollard?

A sovereign state which is capable of dishonouring its dead by freeing their murderers and tormenting their bereaved loved ones has, in essence, discarded all of the moral underpinnings of its own existence.

Nor should it come as any surprise ~ as any student of history knows ~ that no country can survive without a clearly defined moral infrastructure.

ED Noor: Did Israel ever have a moral structure or infrastructure? Not really. Never. The creation of Israel is immoral from start to finish so the creation of one now is a bit late.

The Land of Israel is eternal and the State of Israel has temporal stewardship over the land. The corrosive moral ambiguity that has brought us to this dreadful day is relentlessly eating away at the legitimacy of the state’s continued role as legal guardian of the land. The prognosis is dire.

Only a reawakening of national resolve and a rebirth of ethical politics rooted in national self-respect, moral rectitude and courage of conviction can guarantee the future. No political process devoid of these fundamental values will ever end the agony or the fear for the State of Israel.

It is clearly time for an historic restoration.