Pollard Breaks His Silence
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THE Volume LXII, No. 21 Seattle, Washington December 4, 1986 Protests mark Pollard Kahane visit breaks Page 3 •••••••••••••• his silence by Wolf Blitzer Israel silent ashington — The U.S. Justice Department has been trying — on Vanunu so far unsuccessfully — to get convicteWd Israeli spy Jonathan Jay Pollard Page 4 to implicate other American Jews and Jewish organizations in alleged Israeli es pionage activities in the United States. But Pollard, according to informed sources, has steadfastly rejected Justice Department insinuations that a broader Israeli spy network was operating in the United States. It's OK to be "Pollard has not implicated anyone else," one informed source close to the in vestigation said. Since his arrest, he has available been repeatedly and sharply questioned by Page 6 an assortment of federal prosecutors, law- Students at the Jewish Day School in Bellevue celebrated Thanksgiving with a holiday enforcement officers and intelligence of play last week. ficials. They have been focusing their investiga tion into the activities of several national Jewish organizations. implications for Israel and American long-range standpoint. But I did my best." American Jewish leaders are deeply Jewry. He deserves greater support from His big mistake, he said, was in not mak aware of the suspicions among some senior Israel and more understanding from the ing aliya before entering into the espionage Justice Department investigators that American Jewish community. operation with the Israeli officials. He said Campus Column Pollard may have been part of a wider Pollard said he was "befuddled" and he had contemplated aliya since .he 1967 Israeli espionage operation in the United "heartbroken" by the decision of the Six-Day War, when he was 13 years old. States. The Jewish leaders have strongly Israeli government and the American "My heart has always been in the East," he debuts denied that any such network exists. Jewish community to effectively abandon said. Page 8 They have, however, privately expressed him since his arrest. In recent days, several Israeli officials in concern that Pollard, during the course of "I feel the same way that one of Israel's Washington have expressed their personal extensive questioning and under a great pilots would feel if after being shot down, view that the Israeli government did indeed deal of pressure, may make some statement nobody made an effort to come get him," behave less than honorably toward Pollard to back up this allegation. Their fears have he said. "Not even lifted a finger — in fact, and his family over the past year. He was a been aroused by the prevailing impression questioned his abilities and his motiva devoted agent who provided Israel with in the Jewish community that Pollard was tions." very important information, they con supposedly somewhat unstable. Yet during the interview, he still pro firmed. Shcharansky Their concern seems to have been further claimed his deep love for Israel and for But they noted that the government was strengthened because of the deep personal Jews everywhere. He said he still hoped to primarily concerned about the "bigger" bitterness and disappointment he expressed make aliya one day and to live "a produc issue of U.S.-Israeli relations rather than asks for on Nov. 20 during an exclusive, three-hour tive life in Israel." the fate of Pollard. By abandoning Pollard interview with this reporter at the Peters Wearing a light khaki, short-sleeve and cooperating with the U.S. investigation vigilance burg federal prison in Virginia. It was the prison shirt and darker khaki trousers, he — to the point of even providing evidence first time Pollard has spoken out since his said: "As far as 1 am concerned, I am as against him — Israel hoped to limit the arrest one year ago outside the Israeli Em much a loyal son to that country as any damage to its relationship with the U.S. Page 9 body has ever been ... I did my best. I'm bassy in Washington. Continued on page 12 He told a very sad story with broad sorry if 1 wasn't the most effective from a Black boycott causes Anti-Aparth Aid 3,000 gather at General concert to fall short of financial goal by Kent Swigard Histadrut's Afro-Asian Institute in Israel. In a prepared statement distributed at the Assembly Histadrut, Israel's Federation of Labor, concert, the PHRC alleged that the Anti-Aparth Aid, a black-Jewish concert conceived the program as a way to help Histadrut officials are attempting to train Page 11 to raise funds to battle South Africa's prepare South African blacks to assume the South African black trade unionists who system of apartheid, fell short of its finan reins of power when apartheid is dismantl will help Israel to ". maintain apar cial and attendance goals in the wake of a ed. theid and gather profits to Israel which will last-minute black boycott. A few days before the Nov. 23 concert, help Israel to further oppress the Palesti It was the second time this year that a however, black members of the Seattle nians . ." major Jewish effort to confront the issue of Coalition Against Apartheid charged that Efforts by concert sponsors, which also apartheid has ended in bitter controversy. Israel, through its economic links to South included the Community Relations Council Community A Jewish demonstration in front of the Africa, supports apartheid. They urged (CRC) of the Jewish Federation of Greater local honorary South African consul's black performers to shun the concert and Seattle and the A. Philip Randolph In home was disrupted last spring when many asked other blacks not to attend. stitute (API), failed to head off the Hanukkah of the same people who opposed the Anti- Also calling for the boycott were boycott. Aparth Aid concert last month showed up members of the Palestine Human Rights Three of four black groups scheduled to at the consul's home to protest alleged ties Committee (PHRC) who charged that perform withdrew from the program. Celebration between Israel and South Africa. 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