Why would a diplomat have a direct line of communication with a powerful military force in the region? That seems like a pretty straightforward question with an obvious answer lol.
Enjoy losing the electronics handheld market to the Chinese as everyone gets paranoid about Western smartphones.
Will you still be laughing when this hack inevitably leaks and is used to harm you or your family. I'm a computer hacker and it's looking more and more like these were done by hacking the devices and detonating the battery.
But hey, at least you got to do a completely militarily impotent terrorism against a group fighting a genocide.
You're asking why the US formed an ally 75 years ago with the only stable democracy in the middle east and has a continued interest in maintaining stability in the region?
Of course not, you can only operate in sound bytes, buzzwords and catchphrases.