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Esther Pollard: You must steal more Arab Lands and Organs to get DC attention President Shimon Peres President Shimon Peres: Fuck you and Pollard Jonathan Pollard: Don’t bother Mr. President am Fucked in Prison Now

April 9, 2012

President Shimon Peres Esther Pollard: You must steal more Arab Lands & Organs to get DC attention
President Shimon Peres President Shimon Peres: Fuck you and Pollard
Jonathan Pollard: Don’t bother Mr. President am Fucked in Prison Now
Here is some Horsemanure Worth-Loathed:
Israeli politicians continue to call for Pollard’s release
“I pray for Jonathan’s health and hope to see him free soon, and return to his family and his people,” Vice Prime Minister Moshe (Bogey) Ya’alon tweets • Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has done much to work for Jonathan Pollard’s release and will continue to do so.
Yori Yalon and Shlomo Cesana
Vice Prime Minister Moshe (Bogey) Ya’alon on Monday joined the chorus of Israeli leaders calling for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
“After 27 years, the time has come for the president of the United States to give the order to free Jonathan Pollard,” Ya’alon tweeted. “I pray for Jonathan’s health and hope to see him free soon, and return to his family and his people.”
Ya’alon’s comments come one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres also remarked on the Pollard case.
“We are now celebrating the Festival of Freedom,” Netanyahu said. “I think that the time has come to release Jonathan Pollard. He has already been punished. Israel has already expressed its regret over the matter. On humanitarian grounds, he needs to be allowed to finish his life honorably and to be given his personal freedom around the Jewish people’s Festival of Freedom.”
Netanyahu said that he has done much to work for Pollard’s release and would continue to do so. Pollard, who worked as an intelligence analyst, was sentenced to life in 1987 after being convicted of spying for Israel. On average, U.S. citizens caught spying for allies tend to serve less than 10 years in prison, a fact that has prompted politicians in Israel and abroad to call Pollard’s sentence disproportionate and unjust.
Pollard, who suffers from ongoing health problems, complained of sharp pain on Friday and was rushed to a nearby hospital after prison medical officials were unable to ease his discomfort.
Pollard spent Passover Eve at the U.S. Federal Correctional Institution Butner, complaining of great pain. His wife, Esther, has remarked recently that she fears her husband will not survive his 27th year in prison. She has asked that “every Israeli household and every synagogue pray for Jonathan.”
Esther Pollard said on Monday her husband was conscious in the hospital, but receiving infusions because he is unable to eat or drink, Arutz 7 reported.
On Sunday, President Shimon Peres vowed to send a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
Esther Pollard made her own appeal to Obama in March, issuing a public statement that said, “I would like to call on President Obama, from the bottom of my heart: Please listen to the voices of countless U.S. officials and the voice of the people of Israel and its leaders. Please commute Jonathan’s sentence and release him immediately.”
Netanyahu had asked President Bill Clinton to pardon Pollard during the negotiations on the Wye River Memorandum in 1998, and said that Clinton had agreed. The request, however, was overruled by then director of the CIA George Tenet, who was outraged by the prospect of Pollard walking free. Netanyahu also sent a personal request for Pollard’s release to Obama, and other high-ranking officials in the governments of both countries have made similar requests. Even after Pollard’s father, Dr. Morris Pollard, passed away in June 2011, Pollard was not allowed to attend his funeral.
According to Army Radio, Esther met President Shimon Peres at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Sunday and urged Peres to do what he can to free her husband. Esther said she did not want to become a widow and that “Jonathan’s strength is waning.” She said her husband “can’t withstand crisis after crisis” and that sending him back to prison after a stay in the hospital will be a “death sentence” for him.
According to a statement by the Office of the President on Monday, Peres told Esther in their meeting, “I am very disturbed and worried by the latest reports on Jonathan’s health. It is my duty as president to be an emissary and use all means at my disposal vis-à-vis the American administration to expedite Jonathan’s release.”
Peres went on to say “I intend to work quickly, taking into account the most serious considerations, and to appeal to President Obama and request that, in light of his severe health situation and after having sat for many long years in an American prison, he positively consider releasing Jonathan Pollard from prison.”
Knesset lobby chairman MK Uri Ariel, who was present at the meeting, gave Peres a letter which he asked the president to deliver to Obama on behalf of 81 MKs. The letter urges Obama to release Pollard.

FRIENDLY GHOST BABY BORN WITHOUT BLOOD

April 6, 2012

Little Olivia Norton has been hailed a miracle by doctors – after being born with no blood.

Oliva, now six months, was born completely white because she had such a low count of haemoglobin – the chemical which carries oxygen in red blood cells – that it could not officially be classed as ‘blood’.

She was given less than two hours to live but survived thanks to emergency transfusions which transformed her into a glowing healthy pink colour.

Mother Louise Bearman, 31, a barrister’s clerk, told of her shock at giving birth to a “ghost white” baby whose condition was so rare she will now feature in medical text books.

She said: “Olivia was my first baby, so I didn’t really know what to expect – but I certainly didn’t think she’d be that colour.

“I’ll never forget what the doctors notes said – ‘white and floppy’.

“There were some complications before the birth, which was incredibly scary.

“Then when Olivia came out so white we didn’t know what was going on.

“It was such a relief when the doctors explained what was happening, and it was quite amazing when they put the blood in her and she slowly turned this amazing pink colour.

“She’s such a lovely baby, it means everything having her at home now.”

Louise and her greengrocer partner Paul Norton, 36, of Witham, Essex, first noticed something was wrong when they didn’t feel Olivia kicking for three days.

They went to Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, and when nurses failed to spot any movement after a 15 minute scan doctors ordered an emergency caesarean.

Olivia was born six weeks early at 8.20pm on Saturday September 10, weighing 5lbs 3oz with her heartbeat dipping dangerously low.

Haemoglobin is the protein which gives blood its characteristic red colour and ability to carry oxygen around the body.

When Olivia was born she had haemoglobin levels of just three out of a normal level of 18, which meant the plasma in her blood could not be classified as proper blood.

The newborn was rushed to the hospital’s special care baby unit where she was monitored for two weeks and had her strength and colour restored with two blood transfusions.

Neonatal nurse Sharon Pilgrim, yesterday (Mon) said in 20 years in the job she had never heard of such low haemoglobin levels.

She said: “It was a miracle she survived. She was incredibly pale when born and had difficulties breathing.

“There was no sign of blood loss prior to the caesarean or during the operation.

“It was only when we carried out further tests on Louise that we discovered the baby had lost blood directly into her mum’s blood circulation.”

Louise added: “The hospital staff were amazing and called Olivia the ‘miracle baby’ and said if I hadn’t come in she would not have survived.

“Doctors still don’t know why it happened, it is one of those freak things.

“I want mums to realise how important a baby’s movement is in checking they are healthy. You have to trust your maternal instinct.”


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