(LifeSiteNews) — Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard indicated on a May 20 podcast that Turkey and Egypt could become Israel’s next adversaries in the region after its actions against Iran.

The American-born Pollard, who was convicted nearly 40 years ago of spying for Israel, made the comments during an interview on Arutz Sheva, where he urged Israel to ready itself for additional conflicts in the Middle East.

“I’m not so sure that we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we’ve had with the Iranians,” he proposed.

While highlighting Iran is “a problem we absolutely have to finish,” along with Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, he emphasized that “the storm is coming” with regard to “the next war, which will be probably against Turkey and Egypt.”

“The storm is coming”: U.S.-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard says war against Turkey and Egypt is coming after Israel finishes its wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. pic.twitter.com/7OOXPbmva3

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He further expressed his support for Israel to make its current military occupation of regions to the north in southern Syria permanent. He argued that the Turkish-supported transitional authority in Syria may allow Turkish forces to be placed directly on Israel’s border.

Pollard, 71, is a U.S.-born Jewish American who worked as a civilian intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy. Between 1984 and 1985, he passed hundreds of classified documents and over 1,000 intelligence cables to Israel, primarily through handlers linked to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

He was arrested in 1985 after attempting to seek asylum at the Israeli embassy and convicted in 1987 of espionage, receiving a life sentence — the harshest penalty for spying on behalf of an ally.

A testimony letter submitted during the trial by then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger affirmed he could not “conceive of a greater harm to national security than that caused by the defendant in view of the breadth, the critical importance to the U.S., and the high sensitivity of the information he sold to Israel.”

For these reasons, Pollard has been recognized as “one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history.”

Pollard served nearly 30 years before being paroled in 2015 while remaining subject to travel restrictions. In 2020, President Donald Trump lifted the restrictions and Pollard was flown to Israel on the private plane of the late cassino magnet and largest Republican donor, Jewish Zionist Sheldon Adelson.

As he disembarked upon his arrival in Israel, Pollard, whom Tucker Carlson referred to as “the greatest traitor in modern American history,” was given a hero’s welcome on the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Recently seeking to enter public life with a run of a seat in the Knesset, Pollard has become a supporter and friend of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was formed in the terrorist movement of Jewish supremacy of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. This Kach movement advocates for the violent expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestorial lands and militant interpretations of Jewish law, including justifications for genocide.

Lamenting the results of this formally fringe movement taking power in Israel, and the resulting ethnic cleansing of Gaza, former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon expressed strong condemnations of Ben-Gvir in late 2024, stating he judged him to be worthy of indictments from the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity that have been inflicted upon the Palestinian people due to his orders.

Yaalon went on to compare the Jewish supremacy of this movement to Nazi Germany, calling it “Mein Kampf in reverse” and later stated these racist policies supporting Jewish terrorism were turning the nation into “Judeo-Nazis.”

In a 2021 interview, Pollard defended his betrayals of the United States saying Jews “will always have dual loyalty” and positively advised young Jews working in the U.S. security apparatus to spy for Israel.

Last year, American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee came under fire after he hosted Pollard for a private meeting in his office. The New York Times reported that the meeting was kept off the ambassador’s schedule and that hearing of it “alarmed” the CIA station chief in Israel.

Responding to his host’s statement hoping a war with Turkey and Egypt would not happen, Pollard said “I hope not also, but hope, you remember, was the last demon out of Pandora’s box, and there’s a reason for that.”

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