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                Netanyahu: Any US spying on Israel Unacceptable

   by Reuters

   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, commenting on allegations the United
   States had spied on Israel's leaders, said on Monday such activity was
   unacceptable and had no place in the allies' close relationship.
   Documents leaked on Friday by former U.S. National Security Agency
   contractor Edward Snowden showed the NSA and its British counterpart
   GCHQ had in 2009 targeted an email address listed as belonging to
   then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and monitored emails of senior
   defense officials.
   "With regard to things published in the past few days, I have asked for
   an examination of the matter," Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks, in
   a clear reference to the alleged espionage.
   He did not elaborate on whether Israel intended to ask Washington for
   clarifications.
   "In the close ties between Israel and the United States, there are
   things that must not be done and that are not acceptable to us,"
   Netanyahu said, speaking to legislators from his right-wing Likud
   party.
   On Sunday, several Israeli cabinet members and lawmakers said
   disclosure of U.S. spying on Israel was an opportunity to press
   Washington to free jailed Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard.
   Pollard, a former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, was sentenced to a
   life term in 1987 in the United States for spying for Israel. A
   succession of U.S. presidents have spurned Israeli calls for his
   pardon.
   In what appeared to be an attempt to calm the clamor, Netanyahu said on
   Sunday that Israel had constantly sought Pollard's release and did not
   need any "special occasion" to discuss his case with Washington.
   Israeli Officials have played down the importance of any information
   the United States may have gleaned from its alleged espionage
   activities.
   Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said Israel had always
   assumed that even its allies spied on it. A statement issued by
   Olmert's office, said the reports, if accurate, referred to a public
   email address and that chances that any security or intelligence damage
   had been caused were minuscule.
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