In a typical New York Times anti-Israel headline in today’s online edition, the editors blasted out: “Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat from Israel”.

The story itself is about the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision to increase Israel’s counterintelligence threat assessment to its highest level, as Israel is believed to have eavesdropped on American negotiations with Iran. I have no inside information about these things, but my first reaction was “of course we did.”

The article points out that Israel and the United States have long known, and tolerated, that each was spying on the other. During the ongoing war with Iran, most likely Israel has, indeed, increased its efforts to eavesdrop on those American officials who are negotiating with the Iranians on behalf of the U.S.

Why shouldn’t we do so? Logic would dictate that it would make eminent good sense for us to gather whatever intelligence would be useful in our battle for........

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