(04-02-2014 04:29 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  I doubt there is anyone on this board who is a more committed supporter of Israel than I am but I'd never send him back.

There is only one thing you need remember when you discuss peace agreements with Muslims, the Koran says: “Allah is not bound by any contract or treaty with non-Muslims..." That about sums it up.

http://time.com/45651/pollard-release-seems-justified/ Wrote:As someone who is Jewish and who also worked in the Pentagon in the 1980’s, I had no sympathy for Pollard. He stole top-secret documents; he betrayed his country and the trust put in him; he was caught and it was appropriate that he pay a price for what he had done. I felt strongly about that.

To be sure, I had more personal reasons for feeling an additional sense of betrayal. At the time, I was contending with a prejudice that lingered in the national security bureaucracy that in not so subtle ways suggested that anyone who was Jewish could not work on Middle Eastern issues because they would serve Israeli as opposed to American interests — a view typically held by those who also defined U.S. and Israeli interests as being at odds.