TRASH TALK: Pollard says: •Trump’s ‘dangerous,’ Israeli supporters ‘stupid’ •US alliance ‘finished’ •Bibi’s a failure •Shas is a ‘criminal enterprise’ •MKs have ‘blood on their hands’

Jonathan Pollard appears to be taking aim at nearly everyone.

In an exclusive interview with i24NEWS over the weekend, Pollard, the former US Navy intelligence analyst who served 30 years in an American prison for spying for Israel, blasted President Donald Trump as “very dangerous,” declared the US-Israel alliance “finished,” accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and every current Knesset party of bearing responsibility for Oct. 7, and confirmed he is entering Israeli politics.

Pollard said he would run in the upcoming Knesset election as a member of a new, small right-wing party.

His comments amounted to a political broadside against the American and Israeli leaders who, in Pollard’s telling, have failed Israel at a moment of war, trauma and uncertainty.

When asked about Trump during the interview, with i24NEWS senior correspondent Owen Alterman, Pollard responded: “I think he’s very dangerous. Dangerous, because I don’t know what his North Star is. I don’t know what his values are.”

When Alterman noted that Trump “is loved in this country,” Pollard replied: “Well, that just shows you how stupid a lot of people in this country really are. They don’t seem to understand that empires like the United States have permanent interests, not permanent friendships.”

Pollard accused the Trump administration of preventing Israel from decisively defeating Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran.

“Ask yourself a question,” Pollard said. “Why is it that this administration has categorically refused to allow us to decisively beat any of our enemies — whether it’s Hamas, the Hutis, Hezbollah, or even Iran?

“Why? Because they don’t want us to win anything decisively.”

Pollard also took aim at Trump advisers Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, saying Trump “doesn’t really know much about anything that’s going on in this region, except maybe the price of real estate.” He described Kushner and Witkoff as “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” and said they are “only interested in one thing, and that’s their bank account. It’s as simple as that.””

Asked whether he believed Trump was antisemitic, Pollard said no.

“No, I don’t think he’s antisemitic at all,” Pollard said. “I think he’s pro money. That’s all.”

Pollard was no gentler with Netanyahu.

Asked whether he was being ungrateful by attacking Netanyahu who, Alterman said, “fought for your release” and greeted him when he arrived in Israel, Pollard said this:

 “G-d brought me home because it was a miracle.

“My wife Esther, a”h, fought for 30 years to bring me home, [former Israeli ambassador to the US] Ron Dermer fought to bring me home, and Sheldon and Miriam Adelson fought to bring me home, Rabbi Pesach Lerner fought to bring me home. There were a lot of people who fought to bring me home.

“BiBi, you know, he let my wife almost starve to death on the streets of Jerusalem before he deigned to see her.

“This is politics now, politics.”

Pollard added: “The problem lies in the fact that I got to know him when I came home and I didn’t like what I saw at all.”

He also rejected Netanyahu’s framing of the current war as a “war of rebirth.”

“We haven’t defeated our enemies,” Pollard said.

Pollard reserved some of his sharpest language for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox political leadership, calling Shas “a criminal enterprise” and United Torah Judaism “a shakedown operation.” The criticism, according to an i24NEWS interpretation, was aimed at party leadership, not the broader Haredi community.

“They don’t seem to understand that when you live in this country, as a citizen, when you take money from the government, you owe the government something,” Pollard said.

He praised Israeli soldiers who have served hundreds of days in combat as “sacred heroes,” and called it “disgusting” and “insulting” for Haredi leaders to compare service in the Israel Defense Forces to serving in a foreign army.

Pollard confirmed he is entering Israeli politics with a small independent party that, at least at this point, is not viewed as likely to clear the electoral threshold.

Asked whether another small party would divide the right, Pollard said he could not join any existing Knesset party.

“The fact of the matter is, every party that’s currently sitting in the Knesset has blood on its hands from October 7th,” Pollard said. “And I couldn’t, in good conscience, join any one of them.”

Alterman asked whether “Itamar Ben-Gvir, for example, has blood on his hands.” Pollard replied: “All of them — every single legacy party that is in this Knesset bears a responsibility for the disaster that occurred on October 7th,” he said.

Pollard rejected the argument that blame belongs to the army, to the intelligence services or to a previous government.

“We live in a democracy,” he said. “The Army should serve the state and the government of the day. The fact of the matter is, this disaster didn’t start on October 7th … it started long before, and it was the mismanagement, and the lack of oversight, by the civilian governments, the so called democratically elected parties, that allowed them to get away with this disaster.”

Pollard’s verdict on the US-Israel relationship was stark.

“This alliance is finished,” he said, predicting that the next American election would leave Israel with “a very bad choice between bad and worse” and “no friends” on either side of the political aisle.

For voters who want to prevent another Oct. 7, Pollard said the choice should be clear.

“If they want to make sure that there is never again an October 7, you better vote for someone like me rather than Bibi Netanyahu or Naftali Bennett or Gadi Eisenkot,” he said.