While it’s important to support Israel, it’s also very important to support the country you live in. Dinah D’malchusah does mean something, you know, and he broke that.
If Obama grants him a pardon because of Jewish lobbying, it would be a public relations nightmare for him. He’d be accused of giving in to Jews and releasing a convicted spy just because some Jews asked him to. That, I think, is the biggest reason that it won’t happen.
I feel for Pollard. However, all this pressure to let him go free only makes us look bad to the rest of the US.
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