Recently I wrote an essay about connections between the martyrdom of Jonathan Pollard, Hanukkah and the End of Days. I here will distill those remarks to a few basic points indicating that Pollard’s situation is that of Israel in the world, its relation to America’s rulers in particular and of the relation of the Jews of Israel to their own government.

In the early 1980s, Jonathan Pollard was an American Naval Intelligence Officer who became aware that the American State and Military establishment was withholding from Israel intelligence about Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian missile and WMD that were targeting Israel. The United States had a memorandum of understanding with Israel that it would share such information but under Admiral Bobby Ray Inman it did not. Pollard was alarmed; giving the information to media might have resulted in its burial. He passed the information to Israel helping to save it from Saddam’s plans and prevented America from being an accomplice to genocide. (more…)