By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Now that Jonathan Pollard has been released on parole there are other details that need to be brought out into the open.
As is often the case, t story is not so simple or straight forward.
Pollard's first wife Anne served 40 months in jail and was released early. She was part of the plea deal that Jonathan made. That deal was later thrown out by the judge.
In 1990, after she was released from prison, she and Jonathan divorced. After Anne got out of jail she came to Israel for a while, but returned to the States.
Now she is suing Israel. She says that throughout the 30 years that Jonathan Pollard was in prison, Israel portrayed her as a crazy woman.
Over the years Anne has tried to get assistance from Israel but they rejected her. She and her father live in NYC and an Israeli embassy official has visited them and discovered that they are both ill and live in terrible poverty.
Now Prime Minister Netanyahu has set up a team to help her. He is said to have told them that Israel has a moral obligation to help them.
It should never have come to this level.
The legal suit being brought by Anne Pollard against Israel has merit.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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