{"id":31120,"date":"2011-03-13T00:52:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T22:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=31120"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:12:06","slug":"mccain-calls-on-rival-obama-to-free-jonathan-pollard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/03\/13\/mccain-calls-on-rival-obama-to-free-jonathan-pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain calls on rival Obama to free Jonathan Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Jennifer Lipman<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31121\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31121\" title=\"John_McCain\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/John_McCain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/John_McCain.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/John_McCain-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator John McCain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Former presidential candidate John McCain has added his voice to a growing number of high-profile US politicians demanding the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Senator McCain offered his support for the cause during a telephone conversation yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier this week Henry Kissinger, secretary of state during the Nixon administration, backed the campaign to secure Mr Pollard\u2019s freedom five years before his sentence expires.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Navy intelligence analyst, Mr Pollard was charged with giving military secrets to Israel and given a life sentence in 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He maintained that he spied because the US authorities were withholding information crucial for Israel\u2019s security.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His continued incarceration is a source of contention for right-wing groups in both Israel and the US. Last year Mr Netanyahu announced he would push President Barack Obama for Mr Pollard\u2019s relaese, but <strong>the White House refused to contemplate doing so.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other figures who have called for Mr Pollard\u2019s sentence to be cut include the ex CIA director James Woolsey and former Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter.<\/p>\n<p>www.thejc.com,\u00a0March 11, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Jennifer Lipman Former presidential candidate John McCain has added his voice to a growing number of high-profile US politicians demanding the release of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Senator McCain offered his support for the cause during a telephone conversation yesterday. Earlier this week Henry Kissinger, secretary of state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":31121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,34],"tags":[5084,1262,5083,5082,3215,5060],"class_list":["post-31120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","category-usa","tag-arlen-specter","tag-henry-kissinger","tag-james-woolsey","tag-john-mccain","tag-jonathan-pollard","tag-pollard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}