Communications the Obama administration obtained through surveillance of Israeli officials should be released to the public, an op-ed in the country’s Haaretz newspaper suggested on Sunday.

“The president, after all, has been unable to build a working relationship with the Congress,” asserts the sardonic polemic, penned by New York Sun editor Seth Lipsky for Israel’s oldest daily newspaper. “Could it not be that the most efficient — even only — way for Obama to find out what Congress really thinks is to listen in on the visits congressmen make to [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu?”