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This page contains a wealth of information not found in any other news source.
It includes all of the IMRA Interviews with Esther Pollard - an historic series,
and required reading for any serious study of the Pollard case. A must-read!
Larry Dub Letters: from 1998 onwards

Apr. 13: Editorial: Pollard's 10,000 days: The Jerusalem Post

2012

Apr. 4: Jonathan Pollard remains in prison largely because of former defense secretary's biases: Lawrence J. Korb
June 7: Another tack: Those who deny freedom: The Jerusalem Post
Dec. 27: Pollard's Catch-22: Esther Pollard, The Jerusalem Post

Jan. 30: Notable Quotes in Support of Jonathan Pollard's Release
Jan. 30: Links to recent letters calling for Jonathan Pollard's Release: Justice4JPnews
Apr. 22: Text: Jonathan Pollard's Passover Plea to President Obama - Hand-delivered by Pres. Shimon Peres: Justice4JPnews
Nov. 11: Behind the lines: Pollard's plight: Gil Hoffman - The Jerusalem Post

May 6: 25th Anniversary Review Series - Article #20: Caspar's Ghost - Weinberger Memo Omits Key Involvement: Edwin Black
June 23: 25 Years And Still Counting: Freedom Through Another's Eyes: Sweeping Pollard Under the Rug: Hamodia
Aug. 12: Jonathan Pollard Shares Wife's Personal Birthday Letter: Justice4JPnews
Sept. 20: Pollard for the freeze? Dr. Aaron Lerner

2009

Feb. 15: Not treason, not dual loyalty, but equal justice is the issue: Esther Pollard, The Jerusalem Post
Feb. 22: Right of Reply: Not a security risk but a bargaining chip: Esther Pollard, The Jerusalem Post
Apr. 1: Twin Essays Dispel Worst Lies about Pollard: J4JPnews
Oct. 30: An Israel Espionage Drama, Sans Israel: J.J. Goldberg
Nov. 10: Esther Pollard: My Secret Meeting with PM Netanyahu: Exclusive to IMRA

Jan. 2: A Warm Welcome for Bush: New Pollard Ad Campaign
Feb. 12: The Clintons' Terror Pardons: The Wall Street Journal
Mar. 14: Israel celebrates 60 years of "sovereignty" while her agent who saved Israel rots in prison for 23 years?!
Background information about the Pollard case - Makor Rishon
Mar. 27: Pollard urges State Comptroller: Follow the money: YNET News
Apr. 24: Column One: Hardball with Washington: Caroline Glick
May 5: Special Feature & Pollard Interview: Behind the Scenes: The Plight of Jonathan Pollard: Hamodia
Dec. 21: Worldnetdaily Exclusive News Analysis: Did U.S. give WMD to Saddam Hussein? Richard Cummings

2007

Jan. 26: Did You Know? [English] Esther Pollard - Makor Rishon
May 4: Tenet accused of lying in memoirs: Aaron Klein
May 8: Spy Games: America's efforts to spy on Israelf: Gregory Levey
July 18: Statement of Jonathan Pollard: The measure of a friend: Jonathan Pollard
Aug. 7: Exposé in Honor of Jonathan Pollard's 53rd Birthday: The Lindenstrauss Materials, Parts I and II
Oct. 15: Pollard Longest-Held Living Captive Marks 8,000 Days: Justice4JPnews
Oct. 16: Why the State of Israel is Ignoring Jonathan Pollard to Death: Israelinsider
Nov. 11: Leonard Garment: If Israel stopped its implausible denial of Pollard he'd be free:
Excerpt from "Our Man in America" exclusive interview with Jonathan Pollard: Yediot Achronot Weekend Magazine

2006

Feb. 15: PM Barak & MK Ze'evi Letters: No Bank Account for Pollard: Justice4JP Release
Feb. 15: Hebrew Original Docs: PM Barak & MK Ze'evi Letters: No Bank Account for Pollard (March 2000)

2005

Jan. 6: Putting Fellow Man First: Jonathan Pollard: HaRav Shlomo Aviner
Jan. 15: Israel's Debt of Gratitude to Jonathan Pollard: HaRav Shlomo Aviner
Feb. 20: Excerpts from "The Missing Peace" by Dennis Ross: Farrar Straus Giroux, N.Y., 2004
Mar. 24: George Washington, Jonathan Pollard and The Jews: Worldnetdaily Exclusive Commentary
Apr. 22: Column One: Pollard's Freedom and Our Freedom: Jerusalem Post
Apr. 22: Spotlight on Jonathan Pollard: Caroline Glick: Makor Rishon Special Feature
June 5: What Pollard Passed to Israel; was it worth the risk? Source: Wolf Blitzer - Washington Post
Aug. 5: Hamodia: The War on Terrorism and Jonathan Pollard: An Open Letter to President Bush: Avi Klar
Aug. 15: Pollard Petition Reveals Titles of Docs Provided to Israel: Justice4JP Release

2004

Jan. 15: Legal Doc: Motion for Certificate of Appealability
Jan. 20: Pollard's List: J4JP Special Feature
Feb. 8: Jonathan's Divrei Bracha at Planting of Jonathan Pollard Freedom Forest: J4JP Release
Feb. 11: The Conspiracy Against Pollard & The Russian Connection: Maariv
Feb. 29: Shaking Hands With The Devil - US Complicity in Iraq: Yated Ne'eman
Mar. 21: IMRA Interview with Esther Pollard: Jonathan Pollard's Three Point Agenda & Why He Opposes the New Law
Apr. 30: Where is Jonathan? HaRav Shlomo Aviner
Apr. 30: Crazy Rhythm And All That Jazz: How Pollard Got Left Holding the Bag: J4JP Release
May 9: Jonathan Pollard: "TAKE ME OUT OF THE BOR!" - Feature Interview: Yediot Achronot
May 12: Fighting for Our Brother Jonathan; Saving Ourselves: HaRav Shlomo Aviner
May 28: PM: "You Need To Know How To Sacrifice The Man For The Greater Goal": LA Times & J4JP - Media Release
June 4: Malcolm Hoenlein's Dirty Little Secret Revealed: Tenet No Obstacle to Pollard Release: J4JP Release
June 6: Seeking Retraction, Hoenlein Claims Dirty Secret Was Public Knowledge: J4JP Release
June 14: IMRA Interview with Esther Pollard
June 20: Jonathan Pollard's Open Letter to Natan Sharansky: Step Down and Stand Aside! Special to IMRA
July 22: The Betrayed Prisoner - A Visit With Jonathan Pollard: Moshe Feiglin
July 25: From Yehonatan to Yonaton: A Wake Up Call: Jonathan Pollard - Special to IMRA
July 25: My Visit with Jonathan Pollard: Shmuel Sackett
Aug. 10: Jonathan Pollard is Not a Traitor: J4JP - INN
Sept. 1: IF (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling): Esther Pollard
Sept. 23: Jonathan Pollard - Our Teacher in Self-Sacrifice: HaRav Shlomo Aviner
Sept. 24: Pollard's Lawyers File Brief Challenging Life Sentence - A Must-Read! Joanne Palmer
Sept. 27: Jonathan Pollard Responds to P.M.'s Declaration: Justice4JP Release
Oct. 14: Text: Message from Jonathan Pollard As Featured at 100 Cities Protest Rally: Justice4JP Release
Nov. 11: Text: Brigadier General Rabbi Israel Weiss Letter to Jonathan Pollard
Nov. 11: Text: Brigadier General Rabbi Israel Weiss Letter to Esther Pollard
Dec. 17: U.S. Increases Intel Against Israel: MENL

2003

Jan. 24: With Friends like Seymour and The Conference...
Feb. 5: B'nai B'rith Record "Not Very Impressive"
Mar. 6: IMRA Interview: Esther Pollard on Jonathan Pollard - "The Betrayal Continues"
Mar. 22: Fatherly Love and Sage Guidance: HaRav Mordecai Eliyahu: J4JP Release
June: The Truth About Jonathan Pollard: John Loftus - Moment Magazine
June 15: Over There is A Man Who Loves Israel: HaRav Shlomo Aviner
June 20: The Pollard Affair - To Free A Captive Is To Free G-d: Rabbi Efraim Sprecher
July 7: Pollard and Israel's Second Homeland Complex: Eliyakam Haetzni
July 31: The Punishment Doesn't Fit The Crime: Jerusalem Post
Aug. 8: OpEd: The Saddest Jew: Charley Levine
Aug. 13: IMRA Interview with Esther Pollard: New Court Date Will Not Free Pollard
Oct. 28: Document: Second Historic Petition by 112 MKs to Free Pollard
Nov. 3: Calculated Move Shuts Pollard Out of Knesset Roll: J4JP Release
Nov. 5: IMRA Interview: Jonathan Pollard Out in the Cold...Again
Nov. 14: A Portrait of American Justice - The Pollards Respond to Court's Decision: J4JP Release
Nov. 16: IMRA Interview: Esther Pollard: Israel Has Not Protested Brutal Treatment of Jonathan Pollard
Nov. 17: Pollard Activists Interrupt PM Sharon at GA, Beaten By Delegates: IsraelNationalNews.com
Nov. 23: Jonathan Pollard's Open Letter to the Conference of Presidents: Justice4JP Release
Nov. 26: Pollard Lawyer Won't Give Up: Baltimore Jewish Times
Nov. 28: Column J Post Refused to Publish: Jon, Ron & Elchanan: IMRA
Nov. 29: Excerpt Knesset Record: MK Yahalom: Invoke Geneva Convention for Pollard: J4JP Release
Dec. 17: A Chanukah Miracle in the Making - An Open Letter to Noar L'man Pollard: IMRA
Dec. 17: Jonathan Pollard's Open Letter to Noar L'Man Pollard (Pollard Youth)
Dec. 18: The Nation is with Jonathan! - HaRav Shlomo Aviner
Dec. 23: Text of Pollard Speech at NYC Concert for Jonathan Pollard: J4JP Release

2002

Jan. 4: The Dreyfus-Pollard Parallel: Jewish Week (NY)
Jan. 12: Pollard Lawyers Have Right To See His File: James Patterson
Feb. 24: Document: Historic Knesset Petition to Free Pollard: J4JP Release
June 14: Caspar's Ghost - Weinberger memoir omits key involvement: Edwin Black
Aug. 7: Ellul is Here...and Jonathan Pollard Remains in the Pit: HaRav Shlomo Aviner
Oct. 13: IMRA Interview: Esther Pollard: Pollard and Israel, "Sitting Ducks" for the US?
Oct. 21: Quid Pro Quo: Yosef Goell
Nov. 5: National Security?: The Honorable George N. Leighton
Nov. 18: FOIA Doc: Conf. of Presidents Letter to U.S. Sec. of State Betraying Pollard: J4JP Release
Dec. 10: What No One Wants to Talk About
Dec. 13: Time for Agudath Israel to Live Up To Its Commitment to the Pollard Case: J4JP Release

2001

Feb. 2: Conference Was Told Agencies Would Not Oppose Pollard Clemency: Jewish Press (NY)
Feb. 23: Exposé: Using Pollard to Get Rich: Yediot Achronot Exclusive Investigation
Apr. 20: Money Talks: Atlanta Jewish Times
June 1: Sharon and Katsav Refuse to Help: Special Feature - HATZOFEH Weekend Magazine
June 20: Legal Doc: Transcript Of Court Hearing in Secret Documents Case
June 21: An Open Letter to the American Jewish Leaders
July 3: Rep. Weiner on the Secret Documents: WABC Radio
July 4: AFSI Open Letter to President George W. Bush - A Must Read!:
Sept 26: Terror in the U.S. and the Jonathan Pollard Case: A WorldNetDaily Exclusive Feature by Larry Dub, Esq.
Sept. 26: Terror in the U.S. and the Jonathan Pollard Case
Dec. 15: Weinberger Memo was Hatchet Work: James Patterson
Dec. 22: The Anthrax Road Leads Toward Saddam: James Patterson

2000

Jan. 6: The Shepherdstown Talks and Jonathan Pollard: IMRA
Jan. 8: Back Door to the PLO: IMRA Special Release
Jan. 9: Rule 35 Motion to Reduce Sentence - Text and Notes
Jan. 16: Damage to the United States: Legal Text
Feb. 28: Pollard & Haddam: Prisoners of Secret Evidence: Milton Viorst
Mar. 13: Jewish Funds and Votes: Yes. Equal Justice: No.: JTA
Apr. 30: Combating Jewish Source Disinformation
June 15: Stunning New Revelations in the Pollard Case: Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMRA
June 20: Finally, the Truth About the Pollard Affair: The Jerusalem Post
June 30: Wein-on-Line: Our Duty to Free Pollard: The Jerusalem Post
July 17: The True Motives Behind the Sentencing of Jonathan Pollard: An Interview with Angelo Codevilla
Aug. 25: Shiraz on the Potomac: Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Sept. 2: Jonathan Pollard Letter to Israeli Official:
Oct. 5: Pollard's High Holiday Letter to an Israeli Official: Justice4JP Release
Nov. 3: THINK AGAIN: New hope for Pollard: The Jerusalem
Dec. 8: Pollard Was No Pelton: Angelo M. Codevilla

1999

Jan. 2: Justice and Jonathan Pollard: The Washington Post
Jan. 8: Bring Jonathan home: Jonathan Rosenblum
Jan. 13: Larry Dub Letter to President's Legal Counsel
Jan. 14: All These Years & Pollard's Still Being Smeared: New York Daily News
Jan. 31: Pollard's Criminal Enemies: Alan M. Dershowitz
Feb. 15: A President's Day Appeal to President Clinton
Mar. 3: It's Time We All Saw The "Secret Charges" Against Jonathan Pollard: Richard Z. Chesnoff
Mar. 7: Second Class Citizens: The Failure of the American Jewish Leadership to Secure Justice for Jonathan Pollard: Alan Dershowitz
Mar. 9: Tough Questions For The President: Kenneth Lasson
Mar. 12: Larry Dub Letter to President's Legal Counsel
Spring: The Demonization of Jonathan Pollard: Kenneth Lasson
Mar. 19: One in 60: A Wake Up Call to Senator Lieberman
Mar. 26: Larry Dub Responds to President's Legal Counsel: Media Release
Apr: Why Do They Hate Pollard So Intensely? Hershel Shanks
Spring: The Demonization of Jonathan Pollard: Kenneth Lasson
May 10: Understanding Pollard's Failed Legal Appeal: Media Release
May 12: The Washington Shuk: Media Release
June 7: China's New Hostages: Angelo M. Codevilla
June 18: Netanyahu Reveals Clinton Double-Cross On Pollard Release: Yediot Ahronot
Sept. 22: The Pollard Test: Dr. Aaron Lerner
Sept. 29: New Weinberger Bombshell: Judge Asked for Pollard Memo: David Twersky
Oct. 22: Diplomacy That Silences: Yair Pereg
Fall: Caspar Weinberger Lies 1999: MEQ
Nov. 9: Prosecutorial Egregiousness

1998

Jan. 28: Let Israel's Spy Go: Kenneth R. Timmerman - The Wall Street Journal
Feb. 5: Was there another U.S. spy tasking Pollard? - Mr. ‘X' exposed: Jonathan Pollard
Feb. 28: IMRA Interview With Esther Pollard Before Supreme Court Hearing
Mar. 1: IMRA Interview: Esther Pollard Reacts To Government Reply
Apr. 1: After 13 Years, Can Israeli Spy Finally Go Free? Anne Roiphe
Apr. 5: Why Parole Is Not An Option: Media Release
Apr. 7: Seeing Pollard: Navy Is Being Double-Faced: Richard Chesnoff
Apr. 27: Ax-Grinding Politics Leads To Unequal Justice: Kenneth Lasson - The National Law Journal
May 1: Document: Official Recognition as an Agent by the State of Israel
May 11: Document: Official Recognition as an Agent by the State of Israel
July 10: Jonathan Pollard - 'More Alone Than Ever': Steve Rodan
July 17: Free Jonathan For Me: Yaffa Goldstein
Aug. 5: Are Jews Mad Enough About Pollard? William Katzberg
Aug. 6: Israel's Spy Was Right About Saddam: Angelo Codevilla
Sept. 13: Mighty Mouse and the Too-Short Ladder: A Yom Kippur Allegory
Oct. 25: No Treason in Pollard Case
Nov. 10: American Double Standard: Denver Intermountain Jewish News
Nov. 12: Jonathan Pollard - Accused in the Media, Never in Court
Nov. 12: CIA Threatens, Bill Caves — Again: Sidney Zion
Dec. 13: Countering CBS News Disinformation on Pollard
Dec. 14: U.S. Justice On Trial: Irwin Cotler

1997

May 13: The American Congressional Record: Fairness for Jonathan Pollard
May 22: Exclusive Ma'Ariv Feature: A Conversation with Jonathan Pollard: Ben Caspit
June 13: Middle East Quarterly: "Why Jonathan Pollard Got Life": D. Zwiebel
Aug. 14: Exclusive OpEd by Jonathan Pollard: Who's Afraid of Jonathan Pollard?
Oct. 15: Spying For An Ally Not The Same As For An Enemy: Dennis Prager
Oct. 30: Pollard's Weinberger Problem: Kenneth Timmerman
Dec. 12: Unexchanged Spies: Ha'aretz
Dec. 17: Jewish Leaders Must Extract A Moral Thorn: Anne Roiphe

1996

Jan. 19: Free Me! If You Want To - You Can! Ben Caspit
June: The Pollard Affair: Antisemitism in Government? William Nicholls

1995

June 6: A Second Look at the Pollard Case: Milton Viorst
Aug. 9: With Friends Like These... Ben Caspit
Oct. 6: The War of Independence - Pollard's Battle for Freedom: Ben Caspit
Sept. 25: Jonathan Pollard Speaks

1994

Jan. 3: Letter To President Clinton From Rabbi Morris Sherer
Mar. 18: The Conspiracy Against Pollard: Chezi Carmel
June: The Betrayals of Jonathan Jay Pollard: Alan Dershowitz
Sept.: J'Accuse 1994: An Interview with Esther Pollard
Sept. 14: Esther Pollard Interview: The Canadian Jewish News

1993

Apr. 9: Refuting "Myths and Facts" of the Pollard Case
Dec. 7: Clemency For Jonathan Pollard: Leonard Garment

1992

Feb. 2: Abdel Kader Helmy Case Congressional Record
Mar. 2: Excerpts from Judge Steven William's Dissenting Opinion
June: The Ghost of Israel's Sealed Rooms: William Northrop
Aug 13: What were we trying to cover up? Reverend Pat Robertson
Oct. 23: One Man's Agony After The Fact: Bruce Brill

1991

Feb 5. : Iraq Uses Techniques in Spying Against Its Former Tutor, the U.S.: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Feb. 15: Appeasement of Iraq Made Me A Spy: Jonathan Pollard, Wall Street Journal
Sept. 10: Pollard Legal Appeal - Abbreviated Version: Theodore Olsen Esq
Oct. 21: A 20th-century Drefyus? William Stevenson

1990

Oct. 19: Letter From Lawrence Korb, Asst. Secretary of Defense

1988

Oct.: Shredded Secrets (Excerpt): Edward Jay Epstein

1987

1987: J'Accuse: American Jews and L'Affaire Pollard: David Biale
Feb. 15: Pollard: Not A Bumbler, But Israel's Master Spy: Wolfe Blitzer
Mar. 10: Letter To An American Friend: Soured Promise: Shlomo Avineri
June 9: An Ugly Distortion of Justice: W. Mehlman & A.S. Epstein
Dec.: Gilboa Revisited: A poem by Jonathan Pollard

1986

Feb.: Pollard Refusing to Plead Guilty to Espionage: Hirsh Goodman

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