Jonathan Pollard: An Open Letter to JCN's Yori Yanover
Editor's note:
Yesterday, April 15, 1998, Yori Yanover, the news editor of the JCN website, directed his readers' attention to a Ha'aretz report on the latest developments in the story of Jonathan Pollard. The Ha'aretz story by David Makovsky reported that
He wants to rub the Mossad's face in it, for all those lost years behind bars, which Pollard spent in isolation, neglected shamefully by the very people who had used him.
That strikes us as being a tad cry-babyish. It's very hard to make countries apologize, Jonathan Pollard, and Israel is notoriously un-repenting on worse crimes than abandoning a two-bit spy in the field.
Dear Mr. Yanover,
I can well understand why Yediot no longer [uses] you as a reporter.
Your intellectual vacuousness and total lack of morality is a very sad reflection on your professional and personal life.
The only thing I have ever asked for is the truth, which must be an
alien concept to you. If all I'm doing is sniffling, why
don't you exchange places with me? Especially at this time of year, it
is sad that you've been unable to purge your soul of chametz.
Indeed, at Passover, we're reminded of two aspects of golus: chains that bind
the body and others, the soul. On this Passover, it is my wish that
Yori Yanover will find the ability to break both chains. He has my
sympathy.
Jonathan
Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard has written a letter to Israeli Cabinet
Secretary Danny Naveh demanding explicit recognition that he served
"the State of Israel as an agent on a covert mission." Otherwise, he,
wrote, the U.S. administration would regard Naveh's recent
description of him as an agent sent to spy on the Americans by
mistake as "a public relations exercise."
Yanover, formerly a reporter for the Israeli daily Yediot Acharanot, commented:
...as days go by and the e-mail continues to flow in from the captured spy's PR folks, it is becoming
clear that Pollard doesn't want only freedom, he wants justice. Or better yet, revenge.
Jonathan Pollard has chosen to respond to Mr. Yanover here.
