President Shimon Peres promised Mrs. Esther Pollard that he will deliver the petition demanding her husband Jonathan’s release to President Barak Obama during his visit to Jerusalem this week. Over 200,000 people have signed the petition calling on the US leader to release Pollard, who is in poor health.
Mrs. Pollard handed the petition to the president along with Jewish Agency for Israel Director and former Prison of Zion Natan Sharansky and Free Pollard officials’.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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President Obama has already said there will be no Pollard release in the near-future. He is not going to change his mind because of some “petition”. They should be focusing on Iran, Hamas and Syria, not Pollard. There is a finite limit on the number of issues that can be addressed. Lets concentrate on those issues which threaten Israel’s survival, not pushing for a political unrealistic agenda of releasig a convicted spy.
#1: The opposite. The more Obama says no to certain things the more pressured he is to say yes to other things.