“Israeli intelligence spied on United States Secretary of State John Kerry during the latest failed round of Middle East peace talks, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Sunday, threatening to worsen already tense relations between the two countries.

“During the peak stage of peace talks last year, Kerry spoke regularly with high-ranking negotiating partners,” Spiegel said. “Some of these calls were not made on encrypted equipment, but instead on normal telephones, with the conversations transmitted by satellite. Israeli intelligence agencies intercepted some of those calls.”

Israel’s government then used information obtained from the calls during peace negotiations, Der Spiegel said, relying on several anonymous intelligence sources for its investigation.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Renee Lewis / Al Jazeera America:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/8/3/israel-spying-spiegel.html