So a community of supposed Americans are upset that the Vice President of the United States has stated that he will prevent the early and unwarranted release of a convicted spy for a foreign government who breached America’s national security some 25 years ago and endangered all Americans everywhere.
In other times and circumstances, those supposed upset Americans might have been labeled traitors. At the very least sympathizers. For a fact, the spy, if he or she is an American citizen, is a traitor to America and deserves at the very least life in prison.
But we live in a time where allegiance to Israel is more important than allegiance to America.
Vice President Joe Biden has agreed to meet privately with Jewish leaders who have banded against him for saying he would prevent the early release of Jonathan Pollard, who was convicted in 1987 of espionage for spying for Israel.
Biden, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he represented Delaware, has long been known as a friend of the Jewish community. But he hit a nerve two weeks ago when he told a group of rabbis in Florida that Pollard should remain in prison for the rest of his life.
“He said, ‘The president is not your issue on Pollard. I am. And you’ll have to get through me first,’ ” said Rabbi Efrem Goldberg of the Boca Raton Synagogue. “He went on to say that he feels that Pollard is a traitor, and anyone who violates America should be in prison for their life.” […]
Joseph diGenova, a Republican appointee who led the prosecution against Pollard, said he “absolutely” supports Biden’s comments. Pollard has politicized the clemency process, and his supporters refuse to understand the seriousness of what he did, he said.
It cost the U.S. government up to $3 billion to unravel the damage after Pollard turned over “incalculable” amounts of technical and human intelligence to the Israelis, diGenova said. It can’t be proved that no one died as a result of his actions, he said.
“The documents would fill a room that was 10-feet-by-10-feet-by-6-feet,” diGenova said. “It was the largest physical dump of intelligence documents in history.”
It’s not that Pollard’s supporters don’t understand what Pollard did. They don’t care. The most important thing about Pollard is his religion and that he tried to help Israel. It does not matter that he fucked over America in the process.
Now, I am fine with a group of religious leaders asking, even begging, government officials for clemency for someone. Christian priests and bishops do it all the time. It is what they are supposed to do. And it was a group of Rabbis were doing during the original September 23rd private meeting with the Vice President in Florida. But, watch what happens now. Biden and the President will be labeled anti-Israel because they want to keep a traitor, who spied on America and sold our secrets and damaged America’s national security, in jail.
Make no mistake, if you support the release of Jonathan Pollard, you are anti-America. Not just unAmerican. Anti-American.