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I think this is quite a reach and of course completely unsubstantiated.

Israel is just better friends with the US than Middle Eastern states are. Nothing antisemitic or sinister. No need to get all conspiratorial about it.

I believe there was an explicit project by the Israeli government to do this called the Hasbara project. There is a wikipedia page about it which goes into some detail about the (successful) implementation in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel

Where in the linked article does it say "Israel infiltrated high levels of government and got compromising information"?

If getting compromising material was enough to set US policy, USSR/Russia would have been controlled American politics by now.