Releasing Pollard would be seen in Israel as a jump-start to renewing negotiations with the Palestinian Authority

  -- The Post

According to the article, messages to that effect have been transferred to the Americans. I do not know if releasing Pollard just for the purpose of renewing negotiations is a good idea, but then again, even if negotiations are renewed they are as likely to fail as all such negotiations have failed and gone nowhere in the past 20 years... Pollard himself as demanded in the past that he not be released in a manner that his release will then be used as an impetus to giving away land...