Jonathan Pollard: Restoring Israel to greatness

By JONATHAN POLLARD, JPOST

Speaking up for the first time in 28 years, Pollard reserves some tough words for Israel; says that a country with no respect for the dead has no respect for the living.

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.

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 “honors”:

• 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• 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! 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 dishonor 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.

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.

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.

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

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 honor 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.

A sovereign state which is capable of dishonoring 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.

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 selfrespect, 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.

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

August 16, 2013 | 6 Comments »

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  1. Mr. Pollard should have been released decades ago, and now should be released unconditionally, immediately.

    There are several who should take his place in prison.

  2. Jonathan Pollard does not want freedom at the expense of the safety and well-being of the State Of Israel!

    He is far more principled and resolute than Israel’s leaders who betrayed and abandoned him and have betrayed and abandoned their own country as well.

    That is why they won’t lift a finger to help him, why they scorn him, collaborate openly with Israel’s enemies and oppress Jews.

    Everything he wrote is the truth! The Jewish nation has lost its moral compass and has lost its way! True greatness eludes it.


  3. WAR III – The war on the Jews and the Rise of the World Security State

    If Israel allows ‘”faithless shepherds” to spurn their birthright the void will be filled with HAMAS [“violence”], foreign soldiers and alien gods. The banner of Israel must be raised, a single nation upon the hills of Israel.’

    Israel is the core and its planned dismemberment the ultimate “Munich Pact.” We are seeing in our own time a constant re-working of Psalm 83: “The nations take counsel together, saying, come let us cut them off from nationhood that Israel’s name not be remembered any more’.

    “Americans take note and beware: Israel and the Jews are the canary in the mine. If a league of governments can justify expelling Jews from their ancient homeland, any government can ‘justify’ expelling any person from their home, — and will do so.”

    Pollard, Israel, America and Terror

    Jonathan Pollard nobly refuses any deals in which his release would be paid for by further dismemberment of Israel. A man of sensitivity and discernment, he knows in the core of his being that the diminishment of Israel diminishes him and every Jew; the same goes for the damage done to him: it is done to all Israel, land, Torah and people.

    Those who punished and have incarcerated Pollard beyond all law, reason and humanity used him to warn Israel and Jews. But the message also should be a wake-up call about what to expect to the power-brokers that rule “Israel’s only friend,” uncle Laban.

    Pollard is an embodiment of Israel and the isolation, betrayal and disablement of Israel embody Pollard’s status: doomed to die. When Israel frees itself from the trance imposed by its government, it will demand Pollard’s pardon and aliyah, freeing itself to turn to other urgent areas of national repair. With the presence of a captive redeemed and in the honor of finally redeeming him it would win a real war on terror, despite the savagery of jihad and the perfidy of western politicians and those who pull their strings.