DESERVEDLY SO.
By JOANNA PARASZCZUK AND JPOST.COM STAFF
The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced Anat Kamm to four and a half years in prison Sunday morning, Israel Radio reported.
Kamm was already convicted in a confidential plea bargain over charges of serious espionage, specifically gathering and possession of secret information and passing it to others.
During her army service, Kamm stole over 700 secret army documents and passed them to a correspondent of Hebrew language daily Haaretz.
According to the plea bargain, Kamm admitted to those charges but not to the original charge of conspiring to deliberately harm state security, which would have given her a life sentence. The prosecution had nevertheless requested a harsh sentence of 15 years imprisonment.
In numerous media interviews, Kamm has said that she leaked the information because she thought it would bring to light injustices committed by the IDF.
Kamm spent nearly two years under house arrest and was forced to be accompanied everywhere she goes, even to bathroom brakes during the trial.
Ron Friedman contributed to this report
She, Anat Shapiro, and Zouabi should have been included in bibi’s bozo blunder – or shot. 4.5 years is a joke. But hey, that’s Israel, the Israel of barak’s “love taps” on Gaza and which is rapidly becoming the laughingstock of the world. Instead of all of the hot air blown the last couple of days, there should have been nothing more than hot radioactive air swirling over what was left of Gaza.
Question.
What would have happened if the spying lass would have been a religious woman from Hebron, lets say?
And pray tell us what would have been the reaction if the reporter that received the stolen secrets would have been a kippa toting Jew working for any newspaper other than “ha’aretz”?
I wonder….
Given the ridiculous state of affairs in the Israeli legal system I suppose I should be happy that the court didn’t award Kamm the Israel Prize and appoint her Defence Minister!
Seriously, this sentence will do nothing to deter any other Left wing Israeli jackal who decides to expose IDF security documents to the totally Leftist Israeli media and thus to our enemies.
The big challenge will come when the ultra Leftis Haaretz reporter who obtained the secret files is charged with endangering Israeli security. I can only hope that he will be found guilty as well, and punished severely with decades in jail, all of his property including his house taken from him, or worse.
Too bad she wasn’t American. Israel could have swapped her for Pollard.
She deserved decades behind bars.
Another disgrace.
Israel doesn’t take treason seriously.
Just as well since the Israel government commits treason every day.
Kamm learned well from her role model.