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- From: dan@jonas.berkeley.edu (dan graves)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
- Subject: Re: Jonathan Pollard...
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 00:47:31 GMT
- Organization: University of California Berkeley
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- In article <By4urF.1vn@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, eshneken@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Edward A Shnekendorf) writes:
- |>
- |> There is a difference between working against the U.S. for the benefit of
- |> Israel and protecting Israel by passing information which is crucial to her
- |> and not hurtful to the U.S. Pollard felt that this information, which related
- |> to Iraq's chemical weapon program, was crucial to Israel - he simply acted his
- |> consciounse as both a good American and a good Jew.
- |>
- |> Ed.
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- The decision was not his to make. If his conscience is clear because
- he felt he did the right thing, this does nothing to change the fact
- that he commited treason and compromised the security of the United
- States. As to his punishment: in sensible countries, traitors
- are executed.
-
- dan
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