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The implication in what you just said is that Israel having total control over Palestinian territory is taken for granted. They can wiretap with ease due to their illegal occupation. I think if the example was Canada wiretapping the US, the wrongness of it would be more apparent.

I think in western discourse it's common to treat Israel like a hurricane or some other natural disaster and not a state with agency. It is framed as Israel "just being there" and not as them choosing to occupy an area and subjugate people, so much so that they designate a huge chunk of their GDP to the endeavor and require continuous funding from the US.

Sorry if what I am saying is confusing, I am struggling to articulate the point I want to make. My point is mostly that sure, while wiretapping is several magnitudes less bad than murdering civilians and foreign aid workers, they are only capable of doing it so trivially because of their position of occupation, which is by design.