Pollard defends Huckabee after meeting leak, says ‘abhorrent’ Kushner, Witkoff working for Saudi and Qatar

Jonathan Pollard says he sought the recently revealed meeting with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to thank the Trump envoy for his efforts to secure his release from prison after the former US Navy analyst was convicted of spying for Israel.

He speculates in an interview with i24News that the meeting that Huckabee kept off the books was leaked to The New York Times by those in the Trump administration who are more isolationist or hostile to Israel to discredit the US ambassador and possibly have him removed from office.

“If I could guess, I would say it’s that [the American intelligence] community, particularly the CIA station in the embassy, that probably was the one that initiated this whole effort to discredit the ambassador,” Pollard says.

While Pollard defends Huckabee, he says he “despises” Trump’s other top aides, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

“For people like that to carry on with terrorists who murdered our people and who have organized efforts to discredit Israel, I find abhorrent,” Pollard says.

“Steve Witkoff can meet with the people who ordered our people to be butchered on October 7, and nobody seems to think that’s a problem because, ‘Well, he’s working on peace.’ No, he’s working on his bank account,” he continues.

“They did everything in their power to prevent us from winning in Gaza. They are representatives — not of the United States, but of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and secondarily, Turkey,” Pollard claims.

“If immediately after the living hostages were released, we unleashed, as he said, ‘hell’ on Hamas and finished them off. I would have said that everything that had led up to that point in terms of negotiating and discussions to secure the release of the hostages would have been worthwhile,” Pollard adds.

“But right now, the 20-point peace plan that the president has imposed on us undermines our independence and threatens the security of our country.”