the u.s. perspective? if the release of jonathan pollard would induce the prime minister of israel to fundamentally change positions on jerusalem borders, security and refugees so-called final status issues. well, absolutely. wolf, it won t. and you remember in the fall of 2010, the administration, in order to secure a two-month extension of the settlements freeze, wouldn t etch give the israelis f-35s and a lot of other military equipment for a two-month extension. this, wolf, is a tactic in search of a stratstrategy. pollard is like a fallen soldier to them. they abandoned him. as you know, you wrote the book on it. they abandoned him. their asking is not the problem. the issue is why are we acquiescing, and to buy time for a process that is fundamentally impaired. it s not a done deal yet. it sure isn t. we ll see what happens. i remember the y river talks.
release pollard. clinton came close at the wide river summit in october of 1998. but neither on security grounds nor was the quo ever worth the quid. so the question you have to ask yourself, why would barack obama and john kerry consider doing something that four presidents wouldn t do? i guess it s partly to keep the peace process with the palestinians going right now. because the israelis are being asked to release dozens, if not hundreds of palestinian prisoners. some who have been convicted for terrorism, murder, other crimes. the israelis are ready to do that. and so what s the big deal if they release pollard, who served almost 30 years? the big deal is this, it seems to me, that releasing pollard isn t going to answer the mail with respect to what ails the peace process. what ails the peace process is not the absence of prisoner releases, and it s certainly not jonathan pollard. it s fundamental mistrust between netanyahu and abbas. we re going to find ourselves three, four
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, please rise [inaudible] thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] welcome. david broder was a reporter. he knew that about himself from literally his youngest days. he never reconsidered or wavered in his passion for this calling for his competitive result to be the best he could. he became a columnist, lecturer, speaker, pungent and tv talking head. he was also a husband, father and grandfather, george broder s one of his sons. i stand with you wearing his watch which was his own father s watch, a depression era dentist from chicago who tended to his patience and took payment in trade or cash only when they could convince him they could afford it. here with us today among his other items, his left hand return typewriter and a united s