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Esther Pollard is the wife of Jonathan Pollard, serving his 21th year of a life sentence for his activities on behalf of Israel. Pollard is interned at a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina. His authorized web site is www.jonathanpollard.org.
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By Esther Pollard
March 21, 2006
The decision of the Supreme Court is disappointing but not surprising. The dismissal of this petition, just like all the ones that preceded it, was based solely upon legal technicality; the merits of the case were never reached.
Israel's abandonment of her agent, my husband, Jonathan Pollard, was never a problem that could be solved via the American legal system.
The real issue is: this is the first time in the history of modern espionage that that an agent has been forced to face a court of law on his own, in the country where he operated, without receiving any support from the country which sent him and for whom he sacrificed himself.
From the outset Jonathan never had any chance of receiving justice from the Americans as long as the country that sent him, and for whom he sacrificed himself, continued to turn its back on him.
Whenever I am out in public, people come up to me again and again to express their outrage at the ingratitude and irresponsibility of the Government of Israel, which instead of freeing from captivity the one who served the State and saved the lives of Israeli citizens, just threw him to the dogs.
For years we were told to be patient, that there is an on-going legal initiative. No one can say that any longer. It is over. This was the final nail in the coffin of our hopes of securing justice for Jonathan via the American system of justice.
Every additional minute that Jonathan spends in prison he is in mortal danger. Every additional moment, every additional second that Jonathan remains in prison, his life hangs in the balance. There is no reason to wait to bring him home in a coffin, G-d forbid!
If the Prime Minister will not respond at once -- even before the day is done -- by making an immediate appeal to President Bush to release my husband, then he personally will be sentencing Jonathan to death.
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