The man behind the spy charges
- Author: Uriel Heilman
- Filed under: International, Israel, Israel-Diaspora, Politics
Apr 24,2008
The day after reporters flocked to a courtroom in downtown Manhattan to catch a glimpse of the 84-year-old New Jersey retiree arrested this week for spying for Israel, reporters converged on the man’s hometown of Monroe, N.J. to talk to friends, neighbors and anyone else willing to spill what they knew of the alleged spy, Ben-Ami Kadish.
“You can know people for years and just not know them,” a woman named Anita told The New York Times. “Nobody ever said anything bad about them,” a “shocked” neighbor told the New York Jewish Week. The spy story has been a boon to the New Jersey Jewish News, which scooped them all with a 2006 profile of Kadish and his wife, Doris. That story showed the couple hosting a charity event in their sukkah, portraying them as pillars of their Jewish community. Who knew?
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7 Responses for "The man behind the spy charges"
For as much free inteligence Israel gives America, not to mention doing what America should do as in dealing with Syria’s nuke asperations, we should leave this man alone and send Jonathon Pollard home to his wife. Maureen Emery
A nice person does not always means anything. A spy is a spy. If you are an American you have to trust your government with secrets. They have agendas that others do not know. By giving secrets only makes you and others look worse. There are many Jews in the Intelligence world who would not give up any secrets because it is wrong. You pledge your to your country no matter what so handing over secrets huts others and causes Anti-Semitism in the end. He should have known better and let the secrets remain a secret. In good time the American’s would give it to their ally if they thought it would be in Danger. Who do you think gave the Nuclear Bomb in the fist place to Israel. The U.S. and other countries so why spy so you can get ahead. You do not steal from your friends.
Re: A spy is a spy. Dear friend, If only it was that simple. We our a great country but that doesn’t mean all the folks in the state department are good people. Yes, you would think that Israel could trust her best friend in the world, the U.S! Not so fast, in the 1940s hundreds of thousands of Jews died in the Holocaust because the U.S. wouldn’t let them stay here, thousands more perished because Truman, following the recommendation of his state department, refused to bomb the ovens at Auschwitz and in 1976 while the Israeli’s were engaged against Egyptian forces the US gave vital intelligence to…EGYPT, because we didn’t want the Egyptian Army totally destroyed , yes, hard to believe but thats why the Israeli’s bombed the USS Liberty.
So Israel, keep your enemies close and your friends even closer…or is that backwards?
Rice another loser! She follows in the foot steps of
apostate Albright. No knowlwdge of the nuances & dangers lurking in the middle east. Who else in the area can the U.S. trust but Israel? Turkey? They would not let U.S. troops transit Anatolia to invade Iraq. Thank God for the man in Monroe, N.J.
To all that are trying to spin this story. There is a saying
DO NOT PISS ON ME AND TELL ME IT IS RAINING…..
The facts as we know them…. at least 2 Americans spied on
their own country and gave her secrets to another country.
Keep pollard is prison and get a cell ready for grandpa.
This is a non-story because the statute of limitations has expired.
Good luck to NJ us attorrney chrissy chrissy when he tries to raise funds from Jews in his senate run against Lautenberg.LOL!
Without in any way minimizing the allegations, there are powerful anti-israel forces in high places, some directly subsidized by the Saudis. Now that the M&W and Carter attempts to raise old canards about “Jewish power” have failed, we are moving into the next phase, implicit charges of Jewish disloyalty. We’ve been there before with the specter of “Dual Loyalty” charges.
Whether crypto-anti-semitic, overtly anti-Israel, or just plain refusal to accept government policy about Israel, the organized campaign against Israel and Jews by some in and outside of government just won’t go away. If it is in fact true that the statute of limitations has expired on the alleged crimes, the only purpose served by a widely publicized arrest is political intrigue and an attempt to discredit.
Let’s remember where we are. In living memory some of the nation’s leading institutions contributing graduates to the security establishment, such as Yale University, had Jewish quotas and a climate consistent with that. It is not beyond credence that some of these entrenched attitudes have persisted in some now very senior in and outside the security establishment. It is within living memory that there was a core of “arabists” in the State Department that directly influenced US policy in pro-Arab, anti-Israel directions. These are historical facts, often reported by, for example, the New York Times and others.
The only thing that will cauterize this continuing wound to the body politic is an exposure to daylight. You can run, but you can’t hide if you are counting on influencing public opinion.
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