Jack wants him to rot in jail no matter what, because the country he spied for was Israel.

Rabbi-Sol that is a lie and I find it offensive. It is you who are are saying that he is in jail because he spied for Israel. Reread your first post and try to tell me otherwise.

What I want is for anyone who spies for any country to rot in jail and for anyone who spies for a so called ally to be held to a higher standard.

Rabbi-Sol If his name was Murphy instead of Pollard, and he offered information to Canada, I would expect the Canadian govenernment to imediately turn him in to the US authorities. I would want to see him proscecuted to the full exent of the law. Prosecuted because he is a traitor to his own country and traitors cannot be trusted. If it came down to trusting a responsible governments official over that of an admitted traitor. That is one of the few cases where I would be more inclined to trust the government official. Who is to say a traitor would not offer the same information to a third country?

It is apparant that many of you are speaking out on behalf of this man because he spied for Israel, some more of you are just baiting Carol and me. If Pollard had spied for any other country this thread would have died off long ago.

Do you think what I have said in this thread makes me an anti-semite Rabbi-Sol? Would you like for us to go through this thread looking at what you and I have both said and analyze which statements smack of bigotry and which do not? I understand your passion to defend your people, including Pollard. My point of view is that we should punish all spies, including Pollard. The two points of view put us at odds, but it doesn't make either of us a bigot.