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Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday that âthere is no wayâ that Israel spied on its closest and most important ally.
Well, as they phrase it in the U.K., âBut then, he would say that, wouldnât he?â
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Indeed; plus, if you head up a big important Israeli government portfolio with serious responsibility for national security, would it not be professional negligence to REFRAIN from spying on this?
Also, itâs not as if Defense is the ONLY portfolio important to Israeli national security; Iâm not up enough on how things work there to know if itâs even the most likely one to be involved with such a spying operation.
Also, itâs not like Israeli would actually have to spy from the outside in on these talks: there are friendly compromised US State Dept officials available at every step all the way up the turtle tower. Who needs to consider applying the least positive effort to âspyingâ when youâre receiving multiple hourly updates regardless of any action at all?
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Spying on your allies when theyâre involved in negotiations that affect your country is normal and expected. Using intelligence to meddle in a countryâs domestic politics, however, is only cricket if the country is an enemy.
And, as best I can tell, when a client state that overtly professes to be an ally covertly treats the United States as an enemy, it means we get to blow the shit out of anyone in their territory we want with a drone strike without getting permission and conduct raids with special forces on their soil without giving them a heads up. âPakistan Rules,â as it were.
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