[Pongo]

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Report-G ... FGODU2Qzk=

Report: German Federal Intelligence Service spied on Prime Minister's Office -- The Jerusalem Post

This is not the first time the German spy agency has been outed for espionage activities.
The Prime Minister's Office had no response Saturday to a Der Spiegel report alleging that the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has been spying on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.

According to the German weekly, the BND also spied on the interior ministries of Austria and Belgium, the UK Defense Ministry, the US State Department, and other departments within NASA and the US Air Force.

The report joins a number of others in recent months alleging friendly countries spying on one another.

For example, in December the Wall Street Journal reported that US National Security Agency eavesdropped on phone conversations between top Israeli officials and US lawmakers and American-Jewish groups.

According to the paper, White House officials believed the intercepted information could be valuable to counter Netanyahu's campaign against the nuclear deal with Iran.

Israel and Germany are believed to have close intelligence cooperation, with Israeli intelligence believed to have been the agency that provided valuable information to the German government late last year that may have prevented a major terrorist attack.

According to the weekly German publication Stern, Berlin received key intelligence from Israel regarding an imminent terror attack against a packed soccer stadium days after the Paris terror attacks in November 2015.

Israeli intelligence had informed Berlin of an imminent terror threat modeled after the Paris attacks, with concrete times and targets being mentioned. One of the targets was the Hanover stadium.

The game was called off just four days after the attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had been set to attend along with other government ministers in a show of solidarity with the French.

Reuters contributed to this report

[Heinie]

In what way is it outing a security service to claim it has spies who actually spy, I wonder.
As we all know, it is a contention that anything less than support of Benjamin Netanyahu or the Jewish state of Israel is of its essence anti-Semitic. So, if the meta-message of this report is supposed to mean that the Germans are anti-Semitic then the long established facts going back decades disprove this. Anti-Semitism and Germany are not associated in anyone's mind with Germany.

[Tailz]

How is this even news? All nations spy on each other, even allies spy on Allies. Everyone knows this, all nations know this. The Israeli's have spies in Germany, the Germans have spies in Israel, the Americans, Russians, Europeans, British, Japanese, etc, have spy satellites looking down on all of us.

Even Google scans WiFi networks with the Google Maps cars that take photos of streets... this thread is just Pongo trolling his world view that the Europeans are the monster under his bed.

[Pongo]

The different is, Germany bought the entire Israeli left too.