’Israel’ Wiretapped Kerry’s Calls during Last Year’s Talks

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"Israeli" agents were eavesdropping on US Secretary of State John Kerry as he was mediating last year's futile Middle East peace talks, German magazine Der Spiegel has revealed.

Kerry made reviving diplomatic ties between the Zionist entity and the Palestinian Authority after a three-year freeze a central priority in the early months of his term as secretary of state. In June 2013, direct talks started, only to collapse completely months later.

But when the delegations were just starting their doomed effort in the US, Kerry was busy mediating. Some of the diplomatic calls with his counterparts in the Middle East were made not on secure, scrambled channels but on regular phone lines.

The calls were intercepted by the "Israeli" secret services, Der Spiegel said Sunday, citing intelligence sources.

In addition to the "Israelis", who used the eavesdropped information to get leverage during the talks, at least one other secret service was monitoring Kerry's calls, Der Spiegel added.

The German magazine said the revelations could hurt already tense US-"Israeli" relations amid the ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip.

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