One of the most fascinating things about official Washington is the fact that the state of Israel engages in more spying against the United States than any other nation bar China.

So America’s so-called “strongest ally” is consistently trying to undermine the United States through espionage.

Israel’s spying consists of two goals [which rank second and third, respectively, to Israel’s paramount goal of obtaining information on its Arab and Iranian neighbors]. Israel, first, seeks to obtain confidential information on U.S. policy toward the state and matters concerning Israel so as to preempt a U.S., say, policy change toward Iran. It is for this reason that two American Israel Public Affairs Committee ex-employees are currently under indictment for espionage because they handed the Israeli embassy confidential information concerning U.S. policy toward Iran. Israel seeks such information so as to plan in time for any shifts in American regional policies. Such spying, one may argue, does not cost the United States much expect the element of surprise, but it still is unwarranted invasion of American privacy. In this cause Israel even spies on U.S. embassies in the region

In 1954, the U.S. Ambassador in Tel Aviv discovered in his office a hidden microphone “planted by the Israelis,” and two years later telephone taps were found in the residence of the U.S. military attaché. In a telegram to Washington, the ambassador at the time cabled a warning: “Department must assume that all conversations [in] my office are known to the Israelis.” The former ambassador to Qatar, Andrew Killgore, who also served as a foreign officer in Jerusalem and Beirut, told me Israeli taps of U.S. missions and embassies in the Middle East were part of a “standard operating procedure.”

But Israel’s second spying goal does cost the United States. In a 2005 report to Congress, the FBI reported that Israel maintains “an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States.” Israel seeks to steal American technology to benefit its own economy. I had previously written about this:

Market Watch, an industry trade publication owned by the Wall Street Journal, is reported that Israel has stole $71 billion worth of American intellectual property related to the IT, pharmaceutical and defense industry.

It all started in 1983 when Israel and the America Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC], the main pro-Israel lobby, asked the Reagan to negotiate a free trade agreement with Israel. During the negotiating process, an American agency sought to asses the impact of a free trade deal with Israel on American industry. During the process that agency, US International Trade Commission, “compiled “business confidential” information and intellectual property solicited from US corporations and industry associations into a classified report for the negotiations.”

[One of Israel’s American spies.]

The following year, the Washington Post reported how the FBI was investigating how AIPAC and the Israeli government got their hands on the confidential files. Using those files, Israeli companies were able to engage in intellectual property theft that has cost the U.S. respective industries $71 billion in foregone revenue.

“US corporations were betrayed by the leaks of their intellectual property during treaty negotiations in 1984. US pharmaceutical, defense and other industries continue to lose billions in revenue to Israeli copy-cat merchandise. We are only beginning to fully understand the larger impact of AIPAC and the Israeli government’s ongoing acquisition of classified US information.”

I also added then:

Israelis and their Zionist backers often like to boost about how great Israeli society is and how much it contributes to the world through its IT and Pharmaceutical industries. These people like to often state this fact to brag about what a wonder the Zionist state it. But it turns out that both of those industries are based not so much on domestic innovation, but on theft of U.S. intellectual property.

And to think that Zionists have the temerity to cite Israel’s so-called technical achievements as “proof” that Israel is such a great country. When I once wrote calling for a boycott of Israeli goods - and I restate that call - an Israeli on IB cited me a list of “Israeli” gadgets and write to me that if I sought to boycott Israel I would have to do without such niceties. No way. Those things don’t belong to Israel in the first place. They were ripped off, pure and simple, from productive Americans.

Israel still is trying to steal intellectual property from the United States. And it should surprise no one that Israelis companies would cheat on such a scale. They stole and continue to steal land from Palestinians, why wouldn’t they steal intellectual property from Americans? The entire ethos of Zionism is based on theft. A thieving nation onto the world!

In the FBI’s “Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage” report it ranks Israel as second only to China in spying for the purpose of corporate theft.

It is unbelievable the degree to which Israel spies on the United States and how much that was cost Americans, and then to have the temerity to claim that it is our “ally.” Israel is a selfish nation that only cares for itself. That’s why it robes American businesses for its gain and then claims that it scientists are so smart when in fact all they have developed, nearly all, comes from theft.

But what is even more unbelievable is how little attention this gets in Washington. First, many people in Washington are such staunch Zionists they are not bothered by it and the rest are simply afraid of the Blacklisting practice of the Israel Lobby.