Who is Israel to trust?
The headline of the New York Times‘ analysis of the relationship between Israel’s Mossad and the CIA has a plaintive tone of injured innocence, “Israel’s Spy Agency Snubbed the U.S. Can Trust Be Restored?”
The article does not provide the answer, but the history of the relationship that it paints is highly instructive.
Put the article’s paragraphs into a chronological, rather than the suspense-building, sensationalist order, and it becomes obvious that it was Obama who did the snubbing, not the other way around, by throwing Israel under the Iranian bus: “The Obama White House, concerned that Israel was leaking information, kept the existence of the negotiations with Iran [that eventually resulted in the “Iran deal” secret from Israel […] Israeli intelligence learned of the meetings from its own sources.”
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