America's Traitor, Israel's Patriot

When Jonathan Jay Pollard realized that the FBI was hot on his trail in 1985 because he was suspected of spying for Israel, he fled to Jerusalem's embassy in Washington. Accompanied by his wife Anne and their cat Dusty, he pleaded with Israeli guards for sanctuary after the automatic security gate safely closed behind his 1980 green Mustang, stranding the FBI outside the compound. "Listen! I'm Danny Cohen!" he told the guards, using the false name on his Israeli passport. "It's me, Jonathan Pollard!" But Israeli officials wouldn't let him in.

Last Friday they couldn't get him out. Like a Halloween...

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