Thank yoy sir. I have tried again by doing a quick search on Jonathan Pollard, something you should have done before responding to my reply to you.

I found:
1.Pollard was indicted on only one charge: one count of passing classified information to an ally without the intent to harm the US.
2. He was not indicted for compromising codes, agents of war plans
3. He was not fined, in recognition of the fact that he was not a mercenary., but an Israeli agent.

Curtailing a person’s freedom of expression is justified in Vanunu’s case. He is a hostile antisemite. This curtailment is no different to retired ASIO/ASIS personnel being subject to a secrecy limitations on their freedom of speech.

Vanunu is a prisoner of conscience only to people who lack one. He is a contemptible antisemite and Israel hater.

Had you read my original post, you would have seen that I wrote that no-one has yet got around to declaring what Pollard most obviouly is: a Prisoner of Zion.

All Israelis have equal right, irrespective of the religion or ethnicity. The constant repetition of the discrimination/apartheid lie is as wicked as it is tedious.

Please answer this only: Why are you so hostile to the Jewish state and the demands of Jews to be treated in the same way as any other people?

Sorry Mr Winter you should try again. Pollard was convicted for passing Naval frequencies to Israel. Pollard sold the information for gain. And curtailing a person’s fredom of expression and movement is not violation of human rights and he can choose jail instead ? Vannu has been recognised as a prisoner of conscience, Pollard has b not even been declared a prisoner of Zion, or acknowledge him as an agent. Obviously Christians – not just Arabs – have fewr human rights.

Well, Ben, giving US naval codes to Israel was distributed as disinformation by those who wanted to cast Pollard as a traitor.

The latest information, based on recently declassified documents, was that what Pollard passed to Israel had nothing to with the USA. The information concerned US intelligence on mohammedan regimes and that annoyed the intelligence community.

The actual basis for his sentencing has never been revealed. The US Supreme Court ruled it could not rule on the matted because it didn’t have the security clearances.What a joke! Neither did the sentencing judge. Nor the half-African president.

You are right with regard to Vanunu. He did not engage in espionage. He was guilty of treason and he sold his photos for gain. He converted to Christianity and he hates Jews and Israel. His family has quite rightly disowned him.

It is nonsensical to say that Vanunu’s human rights are curtailed. After imprisonment, the conditions of his release are that he remain in the country and to not give interviews. If Vanunu finds that difficulr, he can go back to jail.

Pollard was caught sending naval codes to israel. But Israel did not declare him a prisoner of Zion. However, he should be freed. Mordecai Vannu has finished his prison term, he did not carry out espionage, but still has his human rights curtailed.

Pollard was given the same sentenced as Ames, a US citizen who spied for the Russians for money and whose treachery resulted in the deaths of US agents. Papers recently released show that Pollard was given a harsh sentence because the information he passed to Israel was likely to cause tensions between the USA and some of its Arab clients. The fact that the USA reneged on an intelligence sharing memo of understanding is ignored. That Pollard’s “crime” was going against the directive of Adm. “Bobby” Ray Inman, which subsequently became policy. He did not pass on USA secrets and not to an enemy of the USA.

What is so infuriating is that Pollard’s sentence is far longer that violations of a similar nature and that the judge who passed sentence did so on Sect. Weinberger’s evidence which was not heard in court. These two points indicate a violation of Pollard’s constitutional rights viz. not to be subject to cruel and unususal punishment and not to be imiprisoned on secret evidence. Then there is also the matter of Pollard being tricked into making a plea bargain thus by-passing a trial and then having the admission to a charge treated as an admission to something quite different. Besides, there is also a question of the brutal conditions of his incarceration e.g. being at one time kept naked in a cold cell and at another time being put into nappies and forbidden from going to the toilet for days on end. The valiant Jewish leadership, particularly in the USA has much to answer for.