Together we can free Jonathan Pollard

Dear Friends of Israel,  This is an emergency campaign started because of a unique window of opportunity available to secure Jonathan Pollard's release after Prime Minister Netanyahu confirmed he will publicly ask of the US President to pardon him. Sign this form to be added as a signatory to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's letter to President Barack Obama requesting the release of Jonathan Pollard.  To sign the form, click here Jonathan Pollard has been imprisoned for the past 25 years of a life sentence for sharing information he considered vital to Israel's security. This sentence is comparable to punishments given to spies from enemy states, not allies! It is time for Pollard to come back home to Israel! For more information on Pollard's case, click here. Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that he will publicly call for the US to release Jonathan Pollard. By signing this form, you are adding your signature to the Prime Minister's letter that will be given to President Barack Obama.  To sign the form, click here The list of signatories will be sent to President Obama on December 30th. Currently, we have 3813 signatories. Let's get tens of thousands! Please forward this email to everyone. **Dan Illouz Founder of Israel Online Ambassadors**

Obama Administration Gives Up On Pointless "Freeze" Diplomacy

By Barry Rubin

December 8, 2010

http://www.gloria-center.org/gloria/2010/12/obama-administration-gives-up-on-freeze

As I predicted here ten days ago, the Obama Administration has now given up attempts to get Israel to agree to a three-month freeze of construction on existing settlements.

Here is the most fascinating sentence in the New York Times' coverage:

"Officials said the administration decided to pull the plug because it concluded that even if Mr. Netanyahu persuaded his cabinet to accept an extension - which he had not yet been able to do - the 90-day negotiating period would not have produced the progress on core issues that the administration originally had hoped for."

Translation: They decided that a three-month freeze wouldn't do any good. In other words, as I've been saying since October, the administration put forward a policy that made no sense, offering big concessions in exchange for getting something worthless.

It is good that the U.S. government has recognized the silliness of what it has been doing the last six months.

Of course, the Times tried to blame Israel exclusively: "Mr. Netanyahu could face renewed pressure from the United States and the Palestinians as the hurdle to resumed talks." As happens so often, the newspaper's writers don't seem to be reading their own words.

After all, the reporter had just pointed out that Netanyahu tried but could not get the plan through his cabinet.  Moreover, the administration messed up its diplomacy to the point that nobody in Israel could tell what it was offering.

And, of course, the Palestinian Authority has been refusing to negotiate with Israel seriously for two solid years. Yet the Times wants to blame Israel or the lack of talks.

At some point early next year the Obama Administration will have to decide whether to put this issue on the back burner or keep knocking its head against a stone wall. And that stone wall isn't Israel, it's the Palestinian Authority which, now that it has recognition from Brazil and potentially from other countries, will be more intransigent than ever.

*               Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). To read and subscribe to MERIA, GLORIA articles, or to order books, go tohttp://www.gloria-center.org.  You can read and subscribe to his blog athttp://www.rubinreports.blogspot.com.


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G-d Bless Our Hero, Earl Krugel

Earl Krugel was murdered in Arizona prison in 2005.
 Who murdered him? What was the sentence?

1 Answer

I read a few articles on his killing but it never mentioned who killed him,
it just said another inmate did it. It says Earl was going to blow up a mosque.
He shouldn't have been put in prison he should have been given a medal.

Michael:

 David Frank Jennings, a known skinhead  was the murderer.

Krugel was martyred  on November 4, 2005, as he started

 his 20-year sentence in a medium-security federal prison 

in Phoenix but was promptly bludgeoned to death.

The apparent assailant, 30-year-old Jennings, 
was an alleged member of the Aryan Brotherhood,
 a feared prison gang. According to the
 Southern Poverty Law Center, 
its members comprise less than one-tenth 
of 1 percent of the nation’s prison population
 but commit 18 percent of all prison murders. 
The Brotherhood is primarily a crime syndicate 
that runs prison drug trafficking and prison 
prostitution, but it carries a nasty racist overlay.

Attorneys for Lola Krugel, the spirited and elfin woman 
who is Earl’s widow, allege that the U.S. government 
is culpable for her husband’s death.
 She did not want to be quoted, but her suit charges 
that prison officials failed to classify Jennings as an 
Aryan Brotherhood member despite his gang tattoos.

But within minutes of the start of the late-July trial, 
as Benjamin Schonbrun, the widow’s attorney, 
questioned former prison employee Thomas Bond 
about Jenning’s tattoos, Judge Wilson
 ordered the court cleared — bending to
 U.S. government attorneys, 
who wanted internal prison procedures, such 
as identifying gang members and gang tattoos, to remain secret.

(The federal government is so obsessed with 
secrecy in this case, that in a hallway of 
the federal building, when Assistant U.S. Attorney David Pinchas was asked by L.A. 
Weekly for his name, he only reluctantly provided it.)

In a statement later, Schonbrun said Wilson acted
 “without a fair hearing to permit anyone to dispute 
the necessity for a secret trial. When a federal judge 
can close an entire trial and exclude our free press, our society suffers.”

Strangely enough, a court order issued by Wilson himself,
 and publicly available, reveals many key prison 
procedures that had been expected to come out at the hearing.
 Moreover, the Aryan Brotherhood tattoos that the 
federal attorneys are so reluctant to discuss in public 
were found by the Weekly, readily accessible, 
on a Web page hosted by the Arizona Department of Corrections.

What is known is that in June 2004, before Jennings was moved
 to the prison in Phoenix, where he allegedly
 murdered Krugel, Kimberly L. Beakey, the Bureau of Prison’s 
“designator of inmates” for the Western region, 
initially qualified Jennings as a “high-security inmate” —
 but then “flexed down” Jennings to medium security
 so he could participate in a drug-abuse rehab program that is
 unavailable in maximum-security prisons.

Bureau of Prison documents show that Jennings 
had described himself as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood a
nd wore its tattoo — so Beakey specifically noted that
 further investigation of Jennings was required upon his arrival in Phoenix.

If Jennings was in the Aryan Brotherhood, 

federal rules required that he be committed t

o maximum security. At issue at last month’s trial 

was whether Bond and another prison officer who

 saw Jennings upon his arrival in Phoenix did enough

 research before allowing Jennings into the general 

population, and into the yard where he is believed

 to have murdered Earl krugel.

Jennings plead guilty eventually and was sentenced to
 35 years in Federal Prison.

Darrel Issa..Traitor

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2006/08/us_aid_to_leban.html

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista) might be the contemporary, real-life version of Frank Sinatra’s “Manchurian Candidate.” Instead of communists, Issa’s allies are radical Islamists and supporters of terrorism against Americans, Israelis, Christians and Jews.

In a short political career, Issa’s statements and actions consistently defend terrorists, terrorist groups and terrorist sponsor states.

Saudi Arabia’s longtime lobbyist, James Gallagher, contributed to Issa’s campaign in November 2002, and Issa tried to overturn key classified evidence portions of President Bill Clinton’s 1995 counterterrorism bill. Issa is also credited with “declawing” the Patriot Act.

Then, there’s Issa’s dance with Hezbollah, an organization that is on the State Department’s terrorist list and one of the largest components of Al Qaeda. In the 1980s, Hezbollah–which means “Party of Allah”–murdered more than 260 U.S. Marines while they slept in Beirut and tortured to death Col. Richard Higgins (in 1990) and CIA attache William Buckley.

Hezbollah endorses “the use of hostages,” “suicide in jihad operations” and “the duty of all Muslims to engage in Islamic jihad if it ensures the ultimate goal [of] inflicting losses on the enemy.”

Less than a month after Sept. 11, Issa visited Syrian President Bashar Assad, praising Hezbollah and lauding Assad’s policies (Syria is on the State Department’s terrorist list).

The Tehran Times and IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency, the official Iranian news agency) quoted Issa’s statements to Assad in Damascus: “Hezbollah acts legitimately and has never been involved in terrorist activities…. Hezbollah and any other Lebanese group has the right to resist the occupation of its territory…. Hezbollah’s humanitarian and governmental actions were legal…. Such behavior would be customary in any country.”

Issa denies the statements, but as a recent Los Angeles Times cover story demonstrates he has a record of stretching the truth–about his military record, his criminal history, his business affairs and his political positions.

In November 2001, for instance, Issa told syndicated columnist Debra Saunders he was vehemently against Arabs suing the airlines and government over profiling. At the same time, he told the rest of the press of his plans to introduce legislation to make it easier for Arabs to collect monetary damages for airline and government profiling.

And Issa’s other statements and actions corroborate their veracity:

Less than a month after Sept. 11, in an Oct. 9, 2001, interview with the Beirut Daily Star’s Ibrahim, during a trip to Lebanon, Issa said, “It is Lebanon which will determine whether the party’s [Hezbollah's] activities constitute terrorism or resistance … If [Hezbollah] wants the world to understand that its activities are legitimate, they should say it…. Resistance is a legitimate right recognized [by the U.N.]…. I have a great deal of sympathy for the work that Hezbollah tries to do.” He expressed hope that Hezbollah would “reform” and become a “government” like the P.L.O.

Assad’s state-run SANA (official Syrian news agency) covered Issa’s November 2001 meeting with Assad, quoting Issa as saying: “Hezbollah or any other party has the right to resist occupation.”
Occupation? Israel withdrew from Southern Lebanon at least a year before, and the U.S. withdrew over a decade earlier.

Issa’s January 2003 actions regarding Israelis captured by Hezbollah asserted the terrorist group’s moral equivalence with Israel. According to The Guardian of London, per Hezbollah’s demand, Issa asked Israel to allow the Red Cross to see captured Hezbollah terrorists in exchange for interceding with Hezbollah to allow the Red Cross to see four Israeli prisoners held by the group.

On Oct. 31, 2001, the London Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat, reported, “U.S. Congressman of Lebanese origin Darrell Issa, during his recent visit to Beirut in the mid of October,” conveyed a proposal to Hezbollah leadership to remove Hezbollah from the State Department’s terrorist list and “normalize U.S. relations with” the group. Hezbollah refused the offer.

On May 31, 2003, Issa publicly made a similar proposal to legitimize Hezbollah by giving Lebanon $500 million of taxpayer money to disarm the group and turn it into a political party.

On May 9, 2001, during a House subcommittee discussion of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Extension Act of 2001, Issa praised Hezbollah, “in all candor, for the good things they do, too, the humanitarian, the hospitals, the schools they pay.”

On April 14, 2002, Issa told Fox News Channel’s Rita Cosby that Hezbollah has done “some good things” (and he also praised Yasser Arafat).

In November 2001, Issa told the Financial Times of London, “Hezbollah does in fact have a limited scope. You must differentiate … from other organizations that might have a global reach.”
Global? Hezbollah murdered 86 Jews and wounded hundreds of people in Buenos Aires in July 1994, in addition to murdering Israelis and U.S. Marines and civilians in Lebanon and Iran.
In a Sacramento radio interview, Issa said, “They do supply little old ladies with heating oil in the winter and all kinds of other activities,” characterizing terrorist Hezbollah as a mere “political party” and “farmers,” and adding, “I’d like to see a lot of them just go back to their farms, go back to some honest living.”
Then there’s Issa’s strange respect for Arafat and Palestinian terrorists.
Days after Sept. 11, Issa, during his House International Relations Committee’s discussion of fighting terrorism, tried to draw a distinction between “Palestinian groups that are resisting Israeli occupation” and Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
During his November 2001 trip to the Middle East, Issa told his hometown newspaper, the North County Times, that he was “particularly impressed with Arafat.”
“He is quite a charismatic individual, despite being a very small man and very old,” the congressman said. “He has a wry sense of humor. He gives you food off his plate if you sit next to him.”
Arafat’s personal food taster as your next governor?
In April 2003, Issa spoke of Arafat’s “charm” (also in the North County Times).
Issa’s softness on Syrian-sponsored terrorism is legendary, too. Syria is home to several fugitives, including Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, Hamas political director Moussa Abu Marzook, Islamic Jihad chief Ramadan Abdullah Shallah and Jamil Al-Gashey, the only surviving perpetrator of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre–all wanted and/or indicted in the United States. However, Assad refuses their extradition.
Issa vehemently opposes the Syrian Accountability Act, which imposes sanctions on Syria until it stops sponsoring Hezbollah and other terrorists. Issa said Syria is “cooperative.”
The Reform Party of Syria said Issa “helps Syria with [its] propaganda campaign” and “objects to Mr. Issa’s presence in Syria. The Baath Party of Syria is duping Rep. Issa and using him as a propaganda tool.”
In June 2003, Issa attended the Beirut signing of a major oil deal between Syria and two U.S. firms. The contract states the companies will spend $29 million in Syria and train the state-run Syrian oil company.
Issa hosted a pro-Syrian Capitol Hill event with a pro-Syrian Arab business group. The event was organized by former staffers to Reps. David Bonior and John Dingell, who now lobby for a “change” to U.S. Middle East policy.
After the Iraq War, during one of several frequent Syrian trips, Issa praised Assad, saying, “His word seems to be good.”
Darrell Issa wants to be governor of California and ultimately president. With a record like this, do you want to help him?