On the final day of the negotiations, the agreement almost fell through. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had asked President Bill Clinton to release Jonathan Pollard, an American naval intelligence officer who has been serving a life sentence since 1985 for giving classified information to Israel. A bitter disagreement arose, with Netanyahu claiming that Clinton had promised to release Pollard, and Clinton saying he had only promised to “review” the case. It was also reported that then director of the CIA George Tenet had threatened to resign if Pollard was released.
Why should Israel believe Kerry? Originally Israel was guaranteed that info like Pollard gave them was intel the USA was obligated to give Israel. Sadam Hussein was developing nukes to bomb Israel and we didn’t share this with Israel like we agreed to do.
A lot of history of not honoring our word to our ally Israel
and now we find them not trusting us, I wonder why?
1. If someone as damaged and unprincipled as Bill Clinton wasn't willing to release Pollard for the sake of political expediency -- even after apparently promising to do so -- then you know there's a lot more to this story than the American public has been told.
2. If you talk to anyone who has worked in U.S. intelligence, you'll probably notice that they never refer to Israel as an "ally." There's a good reason for this. They consider Israel no more trustworthy than the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.