Purchased, blackmailed, threatened, or all 3. There's a lot of tools in the intelligence toolbox.
don't forget the ideological angle -- they've been hyping the Christian rubes that they need to own the holy land so Jesus will come back or some shit.
I don’t blame Israel for that one, evangelicals have a mile-wide apocalyptic streak and there are plenty of homegrown grifters ready to hustle them.
Mossad does far more than just bribes.
"there is only so much you can do when being blackmailed by the Mossad"