Pollard Comeback?

Philip Weiss runs the blog Mondoweiss, the best one I know of by a Jew and against Zionism and against the horrible mistreatment of Palestinians by Israel. Today he posted a short note by Jeffrey Blankfort, also a Jew and a storied anti-Zionist, about the convicted Israeli spy now serving a sentence of life imprisonment in the U.S. 

"I think Pollard will be freed

by JEFFREY BLANKFORT on DECEMBER 25, 2010 · 

"It won't be as dramatic as Lee handing his sword to Grant at Appomattox--after all, Lee and his men put up a fight--but if Obama hands Pollard to Netanyahu, as now I think he will, it will be a surrender of American sovereignty to Israel and his greatest humiliation yet.

"Although I predicted he would be a disaster as a president, he has been far, far worse, with even more betrayals of the public yet to come. By the summer he will have us in a full fledged war in Pakistan, with troops as well as planes, and no doubt, in Yemen, as well, and the others will keep going. 

"And, besides bailing out Wall Street and giving the finger to Main Street, he has miraculously cleansed the country of an anti-war movement. 

"Beam me up, Scotty? Wazzat, Scotty no longer works here? He's been fired? Than fix me up with a Jim Beam then, and after a few I'll pretend I'm up in space."

I put the above here to sort of check on what we can look forward to in this season of discontent as to the way of governmental performance. I have been most unwilling to give up on Pres. Obama, but it's getting harder and harder not to. So let this be a bellwether: if Obama frees Pollard, O. is one sort of fellow; if he doesn't, he's another.


I have intended to write pretty soon on our need as a people to forgive our enemies (an old Christian bill of goods), starting with the Zionists if you will, so I am not now willing to say much more. Let us just watch. This is indeed a test for O.