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Jonathan Pollard, the Israeli<\/a> spy who betrayed the United States, has called on Israel to prepare for war against Egypt<\/a> and Turkey<\/a> as he launches his campaign for a Knesset seat in October\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The American-born former US Navy intelligence analyst spent 30 years in prison after passing a vast collection of classified documents to Israel.<\/p>\n In an interview with Israeli news channel ILTV on Sunday, Pollard called on Israel to wipe Iran \u201coff the map\u201d and identified Egypt and Turkey as its next major enemies.<\/p>\n \u201cI hate to put it that way, but Turkey and Egypt are coming up next as our major strategic threat,\u201d said Pollard.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd unless we have all these other fronts eliminated by that time, we’re going to be in a terrible situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Egypt and Turkey both maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, while Egypt signed a peace treaty with it in 1979<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78163,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78162\/revisions\/78163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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