trip-wire

Just after Israel asserted its independence from American hand-wringing and revealing itself as not another fawning lap-dog, telling the US never to second-guess its handling of security—an internal affair—again, it has been revealed that the intelligence apparatus of Israel closely monitored the communications and negotiations between the US foreign minister as he tried to help broker last year a peace settlement between Palestine and Israel, soliciting support from various regional players.
Of course, the US has gotten many bitter tastes of its own medicine, polling parties for willingness to cooperate with their policies and corporate dictates—or knowing the price of success and how cheaply others may be bought, or whether, by this intelligence algorithm, other measures will have to be introduced. Toppling tragedy could only follow, because naturally any such enlightened, knowing how political sentiment will bear out, that materiel-support will continue, and timing aggressions when America is too overcome by other events, would choose such a moment to prosecute its aims.