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Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying on the United States for Israel, held a private meeting in July with American ambassador Mike Huckabee at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, Pollard confirmed in an interview. The meeting, which was not included on Huckabee’s public schedule, marked the first time Pollard had been hosted inside a US diplomatic facility since his release in 2015. Pollard described the meeting as “friendly,” noting it included Huckabee’s senior adviser David Milstein. Pollard, now 71, was arrested in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison for one of the most damaging espionage operations in US history. At the time, then-Secretary of Defence Caspar Weinberger said Pollard had delivered enough […]
