Krystal Ball

The answer turned out to be no.

But in any case, that's when they really escalated these efforts.

And one person that The New York Times quoted here said that what they're doing now is, quote unquote, unhinged.

So, again, these are not people who are Pollyanna who would expect that Israel would not spy on us whatsoever, which to me seems like a reasonable expectation of an ally.

But in any case, that is not the expectation that our government apparently has.

But even given that baseline of expectation that they will spy on us, they consider the actions to have been taken here to be unhinged.

I want to pair this, too, with another story, which is the efforts to effectively link the U.S.,

and the Israeli militaries and make them so intertwined that this is something we talked about last week with Brandon Weikert, to make them so intertwined as to make it almost impossible to extricate ourselves from this relationship.

This is the country that we're talking about, a country that spies on us as aggressively, if not more aggressively, according to these reports, as our adversaries,

as our biggest adversaries in the world.

There is no other ally that is conducting this level of operations against us.

It is not a thing.

It is only Israel.

And so it really does call into, I mean, look, to me, the relationship of Israel as an ally is already called into question.

This further calls into question the idea that this country should be an ally, that we should have this type of relationship

with them when they are committing acts against us that are adversarial all the time.

And I said earlier in the show, they would be delighted if U.S.

service members got killed right now in the Middle East so that we would get drawn back in.

That's our ally.

That's who we send billions of dollars a year or two without a second thought.