23.12.2011                      27.Kislev. 5772                       Channuka 3

Diplomatie:

Foxman declines Pollard meeting due to media hype

Anti-Defamation League National Director tells 'Post' he was considering vising the Israeli agent until it became media event.

Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman told The Jerusalem Post Thursday that he had opted out of a planned visit to Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard in prison because he felt the visit had become a “media event.”
“I may have gone quietly and privately” to visit Pollard, Foxman said, “but I am certainly not interested in media hype, which is to little avail. It may make some people feel good, but I don’t think it’s going to bring him closer to freedom. In fact, some of the public manifestations of this sort have been counterproductive.”…