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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (10942)	10/23/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

This Pollard quasi deal absolutely outrages me. I have written two emails to the White House about it. I might even reverse my resolve to vote all Democratic (as an independent) in reaction to the Republican misuses of the Lewinsky matter, over this. Let me be real clear. Divided loyalties are the issue. It is one thing for Jews to support Israel, Greeks to support Greece as opposed to Turkey, and Irish to support Republican causes. It is something else entirely for those sentiments to induce someone with high security clearance to violate the espionage laws of the United States because he feels the US is not tilting sufficiently towards the homeland towards which he has primary loyalty. I demand that every American's first loyalty be to the United States. Period. Advocating titling towards the homeland within the law is fine. But when push comes to shove, if its shove...and the person commits espionage. I say....execute him. Make an example. I will go ballistic if Pollard is freed. And I have been a Clinton supporter. I think the Republicans are vastly misusing the Lewinsky noise. And I am generally pro Israeli. (But I am not Jewish.) Doug

To: jbe who wrote (10942)	10/23/1998 7:16:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

As for some Israeli quid pro quo. With respect, who are you kidding??? The middle east peace pressure of the United States is a gift we are bestowing on both parties. Our primary problem in the Middle East is our continued close support and identification with Israel despite the fact that the current government, has, until this agreement, shown very little interest in moving forward. Our problems with the Arabs could also be resolved by distancing ourself from Israel. The notion that Israel's releasing a number of Palestinian prisoners is in the vital interest of the US is a perversion of the whole process. We have pushed it on Israel as a necessary element for the Palestinians to believe they have gotten enough to go forward, despite their deeply inferior position. For the United States to be asked to "pay" for this Israeli move (despite our decades of $3 billion per year military and other aid to a very small country) is beyond outrageous. They owe us. Huge time. We hardly owe them. Doug