Britain to expel Israeli diplomat: report

[maddezmom]

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will expel an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged British passports in an assassination in Dubai, Sky News television reported on Tuesday, without disclosing its sources.

The Foreign Office declined to comment but said Foreign Secretary David Miliband would make a statement on the matter at 1530 GMT.

Sky News said it did not know the level of seniority of the diplomat who faced expulsion.

The Israeli foreign ministry said it had no immediate comment on the report. Spokesman Yigal Palmor said he was checking the details of the report.

more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100323/wl_nm/us_emirates_assassination_britain_1

[dipsydoodle]

1. BBC have got it too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8582518.stm

[kayecy]

2. BBC says UK are not accusing Israel of the murder!........

Just refusing to cooperate with Scotland yard no doubt!

[Scurrilous]

3. Rightist MKs: 'British are dogs, who are they to judge?

After Britain accuses Israel of cloning passports used in Mabhouh assassination, threatens to expel Israeli diplomat, MK Arieh Eldad compares British to dogs: 'Who gave them right to judge us on war on terror?'

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3866929,00.html

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"Members of Knesset were outraged with Britain's accusations against Israel over the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai and its threats to expel an Israeli diplomat from London over the stolen passports affair. MK Arieh Eldad said on Tuesday that the British were behaving hypocritically and compared them to dogs.

Eldad also gave an interview to the British Sky network, and said that a British diplomat should be expelled in response, "maybe the military attaché". British media has been covering the crisis since Tuesday morning.

When asked of the comparison, Eldad said, "I was just quoting what was said in Latroun 62 years ago. I think the British are being hypocritical and I do not wish to insult dogs here, since some dogs show true loyalty. Who gave the British the right to judge us on the war on terror?"

The National Union MK addressed the Passover haggadah, as passed down to him from his father, the late Lehi leader Yisrael Eldad. "When my father held the seder in Latroun before 500 prisoners he read Chad Gadya (One goat song sung at Passover) to the British prison commander. And the question was posed: If the goat is righteous, then the cat is evil, then the dog is righteous, then the stick is evil – and in the end it turns out that, heaven forbid, God Almighty is evil. What is the answer he gave to the Briton? The answer was that 'the goat may be righteous, the cat may be evil, but you are the dog. You Briton. Who gave you the right to judge?'"

Eldad's fellow party member Michael Ben-Ari was asked if he agrees with the comparison and said, "Dogs are usually loyal, the British may be dogs, but they are not loyal to us. They seem to be loyal to the anti-Semitic establishment."

[Donald Ian Rankin]

4. We have the BNP in the UK, but unlike Israel we don't let people like that into government.

N.T.