Secretary of State John Kerry’s Mideast peace diplomacy seems increasingly moribund.  Nevertheless, there remain all sorts of scenarios floating around as to the kind of mix that might result in an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.  Among the latest is the suggestion that Israel might be more amenable to release of another batch of Palestinian terrorist killers if in return the Obama administration might free Jonathan Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst convicted of spying for Israel. Pollard, who’s serving a life sentence, is in his 29th year of imprisonment.  His defenders argue that he has become a poster child for massive injustice.  The prosecution at his trial asked for a term short of life   But a side-letter by then-Secretary of State Caspar Weinberger persuaded the judge to give him life imprisonment.  Pollard supporters note that such espionage -- spying for a U.S. ally, passing on confidential Soviet files that...(Read Full Post)