With pictures of President Obama and Jonathan Pollard they exhort the US President “Yes You Can!," playing off his campaign slogan to encourage him to free Jonathan Pollard, 58, who has been jailed for 28 years.
The posters are part of a growing campaign in Israel to achieve Pollard’s release on both humanitarian and moral grounds.
“The posters are not our initiative but that of citizens who have spontaneously launched a campaign to free Jonathan,” Effi Lahav the head of the Free Jonathan Pollard organization told The Media Line. “They are not directed against the US, but in favor of ending this painful tragedy that has continued for 28 years and almost 10,000 days.”
Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence analyst began spying for Israel in 1984. He was discovered 18 months later and after a failed bid to take refuge in the Israeli embassy, was sentenced to life in prison.
In an interview on Israeli television in advance of his visit President Obama said he did not intend to release Pollard “immediately.” He said Pollard had “committed a very serious crime” and was “serving his time.”
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