Photo Credit: State Dept. briefing screen capture
Said Arikat, State Dept. correspondent for Al-Quds, in State Dept. press briefing, April 1, 2014.

MS. HARF: Said, the President has not made a decision to release Jonathan Pollard. I am not going to speculate on any hypothetical situation at all.

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And not one member of the press corps burst out laughing at the idea that Arikat, representing a Palestinian Arab newspaper for a people and a government which has repeatedly demanded that every single convicted murderer in Israeli prisons must be released as a condition of the “peace process,” is worried about the precedent that might be set by releasing Jonathan Pollard.


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