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Link: Jonathan Pollard - Wikipedia. . .. Israel would never harm the US. . . ..
In addition to the information in the Wikipedia article, Pollard gave information to Israel about movements and patrol areas of US ballistic missile submarines. Israel then traded this information to the Soviet Union in exchange for Jewish nuclear weapon scientists who then greatly improved Israel's nuclear weapons arsenal. I fail to see how disclosing movements of US nuclear missile submarines to the Soviet Union and greatly improving Israel's nuclear weapons inventory do not represent harm to both the United States and world peace.
ETA1: The Israeli spy who was Pollard's handler and who Israel repeatedly refused US attempts to extradite for trial in the US was granted a full pardon by Donald Trump on the afternoon January 20, 2021. Whatever Kompromat Russia has on St. Donald of Mar-a-Lago, apparently either the Soviet Union or Russia shared some of it with Israel.
ETA2: During one of Bill Clinton's negotiations trying to defuse tensions in the Middle East, Israel asked President Clinton to pardon Pollard on the condition that Pollard relocate to Israel and never return to the US. President Clinton initially agreed to the request in exchange from some compromises from Israel. However, military and civilian members of the US national security apparatus quickly briefed President Clinton on the full extent of what Pollard had actually done. Once informed of the magnitude of the harm Pollard had inflected on the United States, President Clinton withdrew his offer to pardon Pollard.
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