Nations do not spy on their friends. In May 2021, Moroccan intelligence used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to infect the cellphone of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez twice. Defense Minister Margarita Robles suffered the same breach the following month. Forensic evidence confirmed the attacks, part of a broader operation that targeted more than 200 Spanish mobile numbers during the acute Western Sahara crisis.

Morocco, now a pillar of the Abraham Accords and a respectful ally of the State of Israel, acted to protect its interests as Spain shifted policy on the disputed territory. Jerusalem, through its regulatory oversight of the NSO Group, holds visibility into these deployments. Thus, it is time to release any Pegasus-derived intelligence on Sánchez’s communications. Transparency is not retaliation. It is a strategic imperative in hybrid warfare where espionage, trade, and proxy conflict intersect.

Spain’s record since October 7, 2023, reflects a pattern of systematic hostility that fractures Western deterrence against the Iranian axis. On May 28, 2024, Sánchez’s government became one of the first in Europe to recognize a fictional Palestinian state, alongside Norway and Ireland—a move that rewarded Hamas’s massacre and undercut the momentum of Arab–Israeli normalization (exactly what Hamas’s October 7 attacks aimed at).

From the war’s earliest days, Madrid imposed a de facto arms embargo on Israel. In fact, on October 8, 2025, the Spanish parliament codified it into law by a vote of 178 to 169. Notably, the government had initially sought to pass the legislation on October 7, 2025; only pressure from the political right forced a 1-day delay.

In effect, Madrid was maliciously willing to advance anti-Israel legislation on the anniversary of the biggest massacre against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.

The statute is sweeping. It bans all........

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