Why does Israel constantly spy on the US?

Question

I thought these were 'friends'.

After Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison in 1986, the U.S. sought a “gentlemen’s agreement” that neither nation would spy in the other’s land without consent.

Israeli government didn’t even honor its legal commitments of the Pollard case, failing to return 360 cubic feet of stolen information required by the U.S. to conduct a damage assessment.

David Szady, then FBI’s assistant director for counterintelligence, was so dismayed by Jewish spying in the late ’90s summoned head of the Israeli Embassy’s Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Activities (Mossad) office and told him, “Knock it off.”

Israel always features in the annual FBI report called “Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage.” The 2005 report states, “Israel has an active program to gather proprietary information within the United States. These collection activities are primarily directed at obtaining information on military systems..."

Answer 1

Power!and Blackmail!!

Answer 2

Yeah these are the people we call allies! How many times has France, England, Spain or other allies been accused of stealing information from us?Israel could care less if America lives or dies, they only care about what we can do for them.When you sleep with the devil!

Answer 3

We can't really complain if another country spies on us. We spy on just about everyone else, plus we feel the need to then get into the business of other nations, even when our allies say it's not a good idea. You can't be the big kid with the stick, and expect everyone to just sit back and do nothing. In response to the Israeli's selling the f-16 design to the chinese: We sell the d**n thing to just about anyone ourselves. Why worry...we wouldn't sell it if we couldn't blow it out of the sky with our current tech. Let them have the almost 20 year old fighter. GO RAPTOR!

Answer 4

jews control nearly 40% of US economy, y wud thy do tht?

Answer 5

Give it a rest, anti-semite.  Your information is misleading.

Answer 6

Got to pick a pocket or two boys,

we've got to pick a pocket or two,

its in their nature is it not.

Answer 7

They "spy" on everyone just like we do. It's called intellegence.

Answer 8

But they didn't sell it retail.

Answer 9

Probably for the same reason the US spy's on the Israelis.

Don't kid yourself, ally or not, there is no code of ethics in the spy business.