Pollard: When I said I couldn’t imagine a better PM than Netanyahu, I was naive

Speaking to Kan radio, former Israeli spy in the US Jonathan Pollard voices criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and says the entire current political leadership needs to go.

Pollard says that on Octover 7, 2023, the entire country was “abandoned and betrayed.” In wake of this, he says, “we need a clean sweep. We need all new people with different perspectives, different views to come in and replace the old guard… left, right, and center.”

Aksed by the interviewer if he meant that all current Knesset members had to go, he answered, “All of them.”

He singled out Netanyahu specifically for what he alleged was his subservience to Washington. Noting the incident at the end of the June war with Iran in which US President Donald Trump forced Israel to turn around fighter jets on their way to a strike, Pollard said: “I’m sorry, a prime minister worthy of the name would have told the president, ‘You know, we’ll get back to you when we finish what we’ve started just now. Until then, I thank you for your opinion, but keep it to yourself.'”

Pollard added: “When I said I couldn’t imagine a better prime minister, unfortunately, I was a bit too naive. Now I can imagine a better prime minister.”