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The American Inspector Clouseau: Jonathan J. Pollard  

An American Spy for Israel will be Released in Return For Hundreds Of Palestinian Prisoners and a Partial Freeze On Construction in The West Bank Settlement!  Thank God!!
We finally got rid of this pain-in-our-ass!
From time to time,  I try to amuse myself and you at the same time by highlighting articles in the NYTimes about issues that I find interesting.  The article written by Jodi Rudoren on April 1, 2014, called “U.S and Israel Said to Be Near Agreement on Release of Spy” highlights one of the more bizarre stories in the annals of effective CIA/FBI/MI counter-intelligence.  

As most of you readers know by now,  I have been quite critical from time to time about our Intelligence Community.  However,  in the case of the Israeli Spy,  Jonathan Pollard,  an American Jewish Naval Analyst who sold Top Secret information to the Israelis, our intelligence capability was near perfect.   I was in no way involved with this case but through the years of my tenure in and out of government,  the name Pollard came up again and again .

  Apparently,  he was US Navy Intelligence Analyst who tried to sell secrets first to Mexico then to other countries and finally ended up with a deal with Israel.

What made him interesting to me as ‘spy’ was the fact that stories floated around him like flotsam and jetsam characterizing him as ‘immature’, ‘erratic’, ‘bizarre’, and even ‘crazy’.  Now those characteristics alone would not make him a very interesting case study in the success of American Counter-Intelligence.

What made him a significant,  if not a controversial figure,  is that fact that Pollard became a symbol to the right wing American Jewish and Israeli lobbies- sort of a “Jewish martyr” who was being persecuted for his religion.

  

Of course,  those accusations were beyond bizarre.   However,  watching three major Republican candidates [Christie, Walker, Jeb] kow-tow before the Jewish High Priest of Corruption, Gambling and Republican Support—Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas,  is equally repulsive and eerie as Pollard’s ‘canonization’.   The story of Pollard continues to the point where he,  Pollard,  transmutes from outright American spy to an Israeli spy by receiving Israeli citizenship in prison.

Next Pollard transmutes into another form—a pawn in the Peace Negotiations between Israel and Palestine.

Seriously,  I could not have created this story line in any of my novels.   Reality has made it harder and harder for me to write fiction.

  So where is Pollard now in this narrative from spy to peace treaty pawn? 

  I have to congratulate this Obama administration for commoditizing Pollard,  the stumbling,  fumbling inspector Clouseau for hundreds of very dangerous Palestinian prisoners including some Israeli citizens who were jailed for real ‘terrorist activities’.  I think the Palestinian people should take heart from this particular inane story.

  Think about this, my dear colleagues in the Middle East:
  One completely disastrous,  inept,  American Jew, who could not even spy effectively is now worth hundreds of effective Palestinian terrorists!   I think the Founding Fathers of Israel would have had a major heart attack if they had seen this trade.   How is this Pollard Pawn worth bargaining for some peace in the Middle East??!!

  Congratulations to Obama,  Kerry and Netanyahu.

  

Listen,  Bibi,  do I have a deal for you!
  What would you give up if I sent you our Sheldon Adelson and his wife????  He could create a mini-Vegas with a holy-land theme in Israel!  You need the business.  Think of the tourists!!
  That would really help us to resurrect the GOP,  and give it a fighting chance against the Democrats!