The entire world spies on the entire world
Analysis: The Americans are experts in collecting political information, but have yet to learn how to properly sort it out and analyze it.
Anyone deeply involved in this field will not get worked up over this report, and will not be surprised either - twice a year, almost regularly, the intelligence mice take such stories out of the attic, so that no one complains about a lack of headlines.
Why didn’t Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convene an urgent press conference following the report? How is it possible that the American intelligence agencies did not rush to put their experts in the media's spotlight in order to attack Israel once again and accuse it of being responsible for the situation? Why isn’t anyone getting excited over the sensational discoveries about mutual spying between the United States and Israel?
There's a simple reason for that: Everyone knows that the entire world spies on the entire world, and the main problem is in fact knowing how to properly sort out the information flowing in from every direction.
Israel is already used to having the entire world's intelligence attention focused on our senior government officials, and they have already learned to be careful. They know not to talk when they shouldn’t, and understand that every word - on the telephone, in utmost discretion, in bunkers reinforced with concrete and in the garrets - is documented by different intelligence services, and mainly by the Americans.
In Washington they know very well how to collect political information, but have yet to learn how to analyze it properly. They know that the entire world is watching them and waiting for a blunder which will expose a little of what is happening behind the scenes.
The basis of the solution found for the difficult problem of intelligence collection in Israel is silence: Not to share and not to disclose what the prime minister sees as an important diplomatic secret. In other words, to keep a very small number of people in on the secret and, in addition, to make sure to talk and disclose as little as possible.
Government officials often speak about a certain issue on the radio, on television and in the press as if they know a secret and have some hidden wisdom, but the truth is that they know nothing and are only pretending to know in order to save face.
Even the current babbling government makes sure to share its big secrets with very few people. But the principle of little exposure is not at all simple in the modern era, in which one cannot blow one's nose without the picture being distributed online within seconds. Today's world is breached and open to everyone.
The Americans listen in on the entire world, drawing everything they want to know through their technology. At the moment, they are interested in Israel mainly in terms of political debates and insights ahead of a possible decision to launch a war.
The Israelis, on their part, assume that the American ear is always attentive everywhere, that they listen to every word and that they can’t be stopped. Government officials and people of authority have gotten used to seeing the Americans as world governors in that area too, and are trying to compete with them through advertising and public relations, just like the fly who rested on the large ox's back, and once they finished their work said to the ox: "We plowed, huh?"
