US spying on Israel reveals cynical heart of the ‘special relationship’

US spying on Israel reveals cynical heart of the ‘special relationship’

By Eamon Murphy

A new Wall Street Journal scoop details how a NSA wiretap trained on the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led to intercepts of conversations with U.S. lawmakers and American Jewish groups. While the possibility of illegal spying on Congress will dominate public discussion of the story, the monitoring of Netanyahu and his staff, and the blunt way American officials reportedly discuss it in private, completely belies the public presentation of a relationship based on "shared values."

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