Member of Knesset Michael Ben-Ari said Sunday evening thatm “The cruelty of [United States President Barack] Obama toward Jonathan Pollard reminds him of dark regimes like those of [Syrian President Bashar] Assad and [Libyan leader Muammar] Qaddafi and not a friendly nation, as the U.S. wants to appear.”
Dr. Ben-Ari’s comments came during a demonstation opposite the American embassy in Tel Aviv on behalf of permission for Pollard to attend the funeral of his father, who died on Shabbat. Pollard is serving a life sentence for passing classified information from the U.S. to Israel.
