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Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/editorial/release_pollard_now
Release Pollard Now
(New York Jewish Week) Editorial - Jonathan Pollard is entering his 25th year in prison, and there's a minor buzz in Washington about what JTA Washington correspondent Ron Kampeas called "the biggest push in years" to free the Israeli spy. Pollard's espionage activities in the early 1980s were wrong, and we reject claims that his efforts were justified, however well-intentioned they may have been. That said, we believe Jonathan Pollard should be released, and released now. The interests of justice have long since been served; the amount of time he has served clearly has been disproportionate. We call on President Barack Obama to release Jonathan Pollard - not because what he did was justified, not because America was wrong in imprisoning him, not as part of any diplomatic deal, but out of simple compassion. And because keeping him in jail is no longer a matter of justice or national security.