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Flood the White House with Phone Calls: Free Pollard Now!

Pollard's sentence is an abomination. Pure anti-semitism. Let's be frank, shall we? If Israel wanted to spy on the US, they wouldn't use a Jewish guy. Helllooooo.

This is Pollard's 24th year in prison. The median sentence for the offense Pollard committed - one count of passing classified information to an ally - is 2 to 4 years. Pollard received his life sentence without a trial, as a result of a plea bargain which he honored and the U.S. government violated.

Flood the White House with Phone Calls: Free Pollard Now!

"I'm calling to register a strong request that President  Bush issue an immediate Pardon to Jonathan Pollard."

Flood the White House with Phone Calls: Free Pollard Now!

On Friday Nov 21st Jonathan Pollard will enter his 24th year in prison.
On Sunday Nov 23rd Ehud Olmert will be meeting with President Bush for the
last time.
On Thursday Nov 27th the American people will celebrate the Thanksgiving
Holiday - a holiday traditionally associated with Presidential clemencies.
Now is the time to call upon the President:
Free Jonathan Pollard!
Call: 202-456 -1111 or 202-456-1414
(Monday to Friday 9AM to 5PM - Eastern DST)
Every phone call is important. Everyone is encouraged to start calling the
White House and to call daily, repeatedly, until Jonathan is home in
Jerusalem, alive and well.

Presidential clemencies are traditionally signed precisely at this time and
prisoners are freed in advance of the holiday to go home to their families
for Thanksgiving. What finer gesture could President Bush make to the People
of Israel when he meets with the PM this coming week? Freedom for Jonathan
Pollard!

Mr. Bush has but 2 months left in office. These two months are a time of
grace, when the out-going president traditionally grants clemencies to
prisoners. There is no legal or moral reason that requires the president to
wait until his last day in office to grant clemency. Call the White House
today! Please, Mr. President, send Jonathan Pollard home!

White House telephone lines are manned from 4 PM
To ensure a faster response, follow the instructions
for "Rotary" telephones regardless!]

"I'm calling to register a strong request that President  Bush issue an immediate Pardon to Jonathan Pollard."

Did know the facts of the case

see comparative sentences

read Did You Know? – a review of the facts

learn about the U.S. court case

see the unequal justice pages

see the organizations and individuals supporting Pollard's release

study the "must-read" articles

So Can We Free Pollard already?

Israel Lauded for Sharing Expertise With U.S.

A key military official praised Israel on Thursday for providing American troops with equipment and training to protect servicemen in the field.
Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson of the Pentagon's Acquisition and Management department said Israel has provided technology to the United States that helps servicemen identify suicide bombers and people carrying concealed weapons.Learn more about the strategic relationship between the United States and Israel.
Additionally, Sorenson said, Israel has worked with the American military to train dogs to sniff out improvised explosive devices such as roadside bombs. The American and Israeli militaries regularly train together and share expertise.

The Whole Pollard affair is Utterly Disgusting

Jonathan Pollard, the canard in the coal mine,  is serving 20 years for spying (the longest serving spy sentence in  American history) and Alger Hiss made policy? This Pollard thing is a perverse  miscarriage of justice, and wreaks of punitive antisemitism. Hmm...let's see, American justice -  Durst is freed after  murdering and chopping up his neighbor, OJ  is playing golf, the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay are suing us for sexy military women (and lack of proper legal representation)..............and JONATHAN POLLARD IS STILL ROTTING IN JAIL (and frankly he didn't do anything)? If you want to be blown back by real spying in America, then read TREASON by Ann Coulter. NOW WAS SPYING WITH IN THE INTENTION OF CHANGING OUT CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC TO A SOCIALIST COLLECTIVIST GOVERNMENT!

Israeli Envoy to Visit Pollard as Rumors of Release Circulate

Politics/Gov´t

A visit to Jonathan Pollard by Israel's U.S. Ambassador has been rumored as part of a deal between Sharon and Bush that would free Pollard after more Israeli withdrawals from Yesha.

Prime Minister Sharon last Sunday night told American secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he will order Ambassador Danny Ayalon to visit Pollard, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for passing to Israel intelligence information.

Sources in the Sharon's office have leaked to the media that U.S. President George W. Bush hinted to the Prime Minister that he might pardon Pollard if Sharon follows up with a withdrawal from most of Judea and Samaria following this summer's planned evacuation of Jews in Gaza and northern Samaria.

It was not clear whether the leaks from Sharon's office were a publicity stunt to win sympathy from the Israel public for the evacuation or whether it is true that the planned visit of Ambassador Ayalon is linked to a Bush promise to free Pollard in return for further evacuations.

Since his appointment, Ayalon has never visited Pollard. Recently, Ayalon came under sharp criticism for neglecting to visit Pollard on a recent trip that brought the ambassador within thirty miles of Pollard's cell in North Carolina.

Pollard in the past has said he would refuse to leave prison as part of any political deal.

A spokesman for the committee to free Pollard rejected the report as another attempt to use Pollard as a bargaining device. "We have no faith in these reports…and every time there is some miserable agreement that endangers the security of the people [of Israel] and the security of the prime minister's position, the public is exposed suddenly to promises to free Pollard," said spokesman Adi Greenberg. He added that the result will be as in the past, with Pollard remaining in jail.

Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vehemently denied the report that the government plans a further withdrawal despite Olmert's own statement earlier this year that there will be "second disengagement."