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...Bibi wasn't finished. The Prime Minister pulled Clinton aside and said he had just one more matter to raise: clemency for Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel. Netanyahu said he needed the release to mollify hard-liners in his Cabinet. Simultaneously, Netanyahu's aides tried to "create a little reality," according to a U.S. official, by telling the press that Clinton had consented--which he hadn't. American officials were livid. At 9 a.m., Netanyahu told Clinton he wanted to take a nap. When he awoke three hours later, having reaped the benefits...
When Jonathan Jay Pollard realized that the FBI was hot on his trail in 1985 because he was suspected of spying for Israel, he fled to Jerusalem's embassy in Washington. Accompanied by his wife Anne and their cat Dusty, he pleaded with Israeli guards for sanctuary after the automatic security gate safely closed behind his 1980 green Mustang, stranding the FBI outside the compound. "Listen! I'm Danny Cohen!" he told the guards, using the false name on his Israeli passport. "It's me, Jonathan Pollard!" But Israeli officials wouldn...
Last Friday they couldn't get him out. Like a Halloween apparition, Pollard haunted the ninth and final day of last week's Middle East peace talks after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that President Clinton free Pollard and allow the convicted spy to fly to Israel. Clinton agreed only to review Pollard's continued incarceration...
Mideast talks were supposed to make President Clinton look good at home. Instead they threatened to plunge him into further domestic problems Friday -- especially with Washington's defense and intelligence communities -- after Israeli officials began spreading word that Clinton had agreed to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard as part of a Middle East peace deal. "The President can't really afford to release Pollard immediately without it looking like he was blackmailed," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Clinton had rejected the Israelis' request to release him as recently as October 1 -- so there'll have to be some papering...
...After a morning of frantic negotiation, Netanyahu on Friday appeared to have backed off from his refusal to sign a peace deal unless he could take Pollard home with him. Israel "de-linked" the issues, giving Clinton the space to release Pollard at a later point. The problem, says Thompson, is that Israeli brinkmanship on the issue has created a situation where even a future release of Pollard may carry a domestic political cost...