{"id":619,"date":"2006-01-16T15:16:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/no-justice-in-the-israel-supreme-court-for-jonathan-pollar-or-anyone-else-with-a-kippah\/"},"modified":"2006-01-16T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T15:18:50","slug":"no-justice-in-the-israel-supreme-court-for-jonathan-pollar-or-anyone-else-with-a-kippah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/16\/no-justice-in-the-israel-supreme-court-for-jonathan-pollar-or-anyone-else-with-a-kippah\/","title":{"rendered":"No Justice in the Israel Supreme Court for Jonathan Pollard (or Anyone Else With a Kippah?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While the IDF, Yassam, Magav are busy trying to make the Shlehevet neighborhood of Chevron Yudenrein as the stepping-stone for expelling 10s of thousands more Jews from Yehuda and the Shomron, the Regime&#8217;s other tenacle reared it&#8217;s nasty head;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1136361090485&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>HCJ Rules Pollard Not Prisoner of Zion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>The High Court of Justice ruled on Monday morning that Jonathan Pollard<\/strong>, who was convicted in the United States of spying for Israel and has been in prison for over 20 years, <strong>does not meet the criteria required to declare him a prisoner of Zion.<\/strong>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Pollard, a civilian American Naval intelligence analyst pleaded guilty to espionage on June 4, 1986, and received a life sentence and a recommendation that he never be paroled &#8211; in complete violation of his plea agreement, and on only one charge of passing classified information to an ally, without intent to hurt the US.&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So what exactly is the criteria for declaration of one as a &#8220;Prisoner of Zion?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Israel National News report <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=96710 \"><strong>Supreme Court Rejects Pollard&#8217;s Plea to be Prisoner of Zion<\/strong><\/a> states that &#8220;<strong>The Court accepted the State&#8217;s position that Pollard did not meet the required criteria, such as teaching Hebrew or encouraging immigration to Israel.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the report continues, <strong>&#8220;A former Prisoner of Zion, Prof. Ezriel Kochubievski of Rehovot, ridiculed this approach. Prior to the Court hearing last September, he said, &#8216;The government stipulates that Prisoners of Zion must have engaged in Zionism. When I was in the Soviet Union, I did not think of myself as engaging in Zionism; I just wanted to go to Israel. Pollard, however, was sent by Israel to carry out a specific mission. If that&#8217;s not a Zionist activity that qualifies for Prisoner of Zion status, then I also do not qualify.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The report further states that &#8220;The Knesset recently recognized Pollard as a Prisoner of Zion, but this decision does not obligate the Government.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report states that <strong>&#8220;Darshan-Leitner&#8217;s office [Pollard&#8217;s attorney] said at the time, &#8216;The lawsuit also seeks a judicial review of the Israeli government&#8217;s calculated mishandling of Pollard&#8217;s case for the last two decades; and its consistent refusal to mount an effective campaign to secure his freedom, as it has done for agents captured in other countries, including Cyprus, Switzerland, Jordan, and New Zealand.'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There will be more comment on this outrageous, chutzpadik travesty of &#8220;justice.&#8221;  This and other issues won&#8217;t go down quietly!   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the IDF, Yassam, Magav are busy trying to make the Shlehevet neighborhood of Chevron Yudenrein as the stepping-stone for expelling 10s of thousands more Jews from Yehuda and the Shomron, the Regime&#8217;s other tenacle reared it&#8217;s nasty head; HCJ Rules Pollard Not Prisoner of Zion Excerpts; &#8220;The High Court of Justice ruled on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}