The
Wye Double-Cross
Time for America
to Honor Its Commitment to Free Jonathan Pollard
Page created June 18, 2001
FROM THE KNESSET RECORD,
February 28, 2001
"...The former
President of the United States, Bill Clinton, made an explicit commitment
to the then-Prime Minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu, to release
Jonathan Pollard.
This promise was made
prior to the Wye Summit and [again] during the course of the negotiations
at Wye... This was not a personal promise made to a particular prime minister...
This was a promise made to the State of Israel and to the People of
Israel..." Dani
Naveh, Minister without Portfolio
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At this time of increased tension in the Middle
East - owing in no small part to America's having trained Palestinian
Authority snipers whose guns are now trained on Israeli civilians - it is
high time for the US to make a confidence-building gesture to Israel by
honoring the commitment it made at Wye to release Jonathan Pollard.
America's commitment to release
Jonathan Pollard, made as an integral part of the Wye Accords, still stands
and is not limited to any specific government.
The US commitment to release Pollard as part of the
Wye Summit was explicitly given to Israel twice:
- prior to the
Wye summit,
President Clinton unequivocally committed to freeing Pollard as an
inducement to Netanyahu to participate in a high-profile summit before
the mid-term House elections in November.
- during the
Wye summit,
the US again committed to Pollard's release as an integral part of
the Wye Accords as a quid pro quo for immunity for terrorist Ghazi
Jabali, plus the release of 750 Arab terrorists and murderers, with
Jewish blood on their hands.
The Netanyahu Government has never
hesitated to publicize point 1 above. But to this day it remains reticent to
acknowledge its role in point 2 above, ashamed, no doubt, of being the first
Government of Israel to agree to release Arab terrorists with Jewish blood on
their hands. Consequently, while this is not denied, it is never voluntarily
raised by Netanyahu or his former government colleagues. They are loathe to
talk about how America duped the Netanyahu government into agreeing to
release these murderers and gave nothing in return.
As a consequence of its failure at Wye, the Netanyahu
Government fell, and the next Government, fully cognizant of the deal
Netanyahu had made, released the murderers and terrorists who were the price
paid for Pollard. Despite Clinton's behind-the-scenes promise to do a
"review" of the case and then release Jonathan Pollard parallel to
the release of the 750 terrorists, America did not live up to its end of the
deal and Pollard remained in prison.
The double-cross that Israel experienced at the 1998 Wye
Summit is fundamental to an understanding of how this case has continuously
been exploited by the US to elicit painful concessions from Israel. Israel
routinely delivers and the US contemptuously continues to ignore its commitment
to free Jonathan Pollard
Following a recent meeting (05/02/01) with former
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of New Jersey wrote:
"I asked Netanyahu about Bill Clinton and Jonathan Pollard and he
did not mince words. This will shock some people but not others. He
characterized Clinton as 'very hostile to Israel, clearly a friend of the
Palestinians,' and was puzzled by the fawning admiration lavished on Clinton.
Netanyahu was induced into coming to Wye partly by an unequivocal
commitment by President Clinton to release Jonathan Pollard, and send him
back to Israel with the Prime Minister... Netanyahu simply ended: 'Clinton
lied to me'. Now that's a shocking disclosure." (Yediot Yeshurun, June
2001).
A detailed account of the double-cross at Wye can be found
on the Facts Page,
points 25 to 46. Other articles are listed below.
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