Setting your point aside, is there anything that prevents the Israeli government from spying on its own people?
As far as intelligence failures, the two aren't even in the same ballpark. The United States is massive. Israel is a tiny speck of land in comparison.
US intelligence agencies knew something was brewing (including possible attacks via taking control of commercial aircraft), but they never had specifics.
You could argue they should have caught on when the Saudi foreigners signed up for flight school. I don't know how realistic that is though.
The Egyptians vaguely knew something was up so tried to warn them. From a lot of sources Mosaad became too dependent on tech that Hamas and Iran exploited that.
As for spying on their own people, that I do not know. If they're like every other western country, that shouldn't be an issue...
Setting your point aside, is there anything that prevents the Israeli government from spying on its own people?
As far as intelligence failures, the two aren't even in the same ballpark. The United States is massive. Israel is a tiny speck of land in comparison.
US intelligence agencies knew something was brewing (including possible attacks via taking control of commercial aircraft), but they never had specifics.
You could argue they should have caught on when the Saudi foreigners signed up for flight school. I don't know how realistic that is though.
The Egyptians vaguely knew something was up so tried to warn them. From a lot of sources Mosaad became too dependent on tech that Hamas and Iran exploited that.
As for spying on their own people, that I do not know. If they're like every other western country, that shouldn't be an issue...
Everyone wants to rely on tech for Intel gathering. Can't beat humint though
I'm not sure, which is why I asked, but afaik they don't have a constitution.
When they founded the country, they gave a deadline for passing a constitution but it never happened.