Jonathan Pollard lashed out at the Israeli government, accusing it of not doing more to win his release from prison. “The political establishment is really a mafia, a collective mafia, and they take care of their own,” Pollard, a former U.S. Navy analyst serving a life sentence for spying for Israel, said in a recorded interview broadcast on Israeli television Monday.
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