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’Israel’ Spied on Clinton


’Israel’ Spied on Clinton
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A new report by Newsweek revealed that "Israeli" military's intelligence unit 8200 eavesdropped on calls conducted by then US president Bill Clinton.


’Israel’ Spied on Clinton

According to the US magazine, The "Israeli" espionage came during a round of negotiations conducted between "Israel" and Syria, and the Camp David talks with the Palestinians in 2000.
The report is based on a forthcoming book written by an "Israeli" expat and political scientist Ahron Bregman, and sites verbatim transcripts of the tapped phone calls given to him by unnamed "private sources".

The book also offers quotes from a number of secret conversations conducted between Clinton and then "Israeli"-prime minister Ehud Barak.
The book, which will be published next week in the UK, also purports to present a letter between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who also held the position before Barak, as receiving a secret letter from Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright which offered a written commitment by the US that it would confer with "Israel" before making so-called "peace" offers to the Palestinians.

 

"Recognizing the desirability of avoiding putting forward proposals that Israel would consider unsatisfactory," Albright reportedly wrote to Netanyahu on November 24, 1998, the report claimed, adding that she wrote that "the US will conduct a thorough consultation process with "Israel" in advance with respect to any ideas the US may wish to offer to the parties for their consideration. This would be particularly true with respect to security issues or territorial issues related to security...".

Yedioth Aharonoth's senior military and intelligence correspondence, Ronen Bergman, who frequently writes for Ynet, told Newsweek that the wiretapped conversations "dovetail with what is known about the negotiations under way at the time between "Israel" and Syria under American mediation.
According to Newsweek, "Israel" employs aggressive spying tactics against even its closest of allies.

When asked how he attained the material, the Israeli expat refused to devolve his source, but said "I think your assumption should be that if a reputable publisher such as Penguin decides to go along with that, then they probably checked the matter with me and approved," he reportedly told Newsweek via an email from London.

The "Israeli" expat, who left Tel Aviv after refusing to serve in the "Israeli" army because of the ongoing occupation of the West Bank, said that there is "No doubt that tapping the telephones of Clinton and of the Syrians negotiating in the US... gave "Israel" a huge advantage, allowing them to be ahead of the game in peace negotiations and know what to expect in the actual talks and maneuver accordingly," he told Newsweek,

 

The report goes on to detail how then-"Israeli" prime minister Barak "played with Clinton's credibility" by disingenuously claiming "Israel" was willing to withdraw to the Occupid Golan Highest borders only later to demand the border deny Syrians access, a move which coupled with Syrian anger at the "Israelis" derailed talks.
The report also cites Barak's anger at learning of Clinton's attempt to get the Saudi royal house to act as intermediates between the sides, Newsweek reported.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team