Israel has been caught spying on US troops stationed near Gaza as part of Trump's joke a peace plan but it's not exactly the first time... Right, so here’s the strange thing about this latest “shock” out of Israel: people are acting like the surveillance of US troops at a base in Kiryat Gat is some wild new departure, when the truth is it fits so neatly into Israel’s long habit of spying on the very countries keeping it afloat that you almost wonder why anyone’s surprised. A US general has had to pull an Israeli counterpart aside and tell him the recording has to stop, staff are warning each other to keep their voices down, and Israel is waving it all off as absurd, which is exactly how they always respond when the evidence gets too close for comfort. So I’ll tell you what this really is. It isn’t a scandal because it happened. It’s a scandal bec ...