Britain issues Israel travel warning amid expulsion over passport row

When iran does get enough nukes & sends a cruise missile to your capital, let me know if you still forget mate.

But for some obscure reason Haaretz has not published my single post. Funny that,I mean being a British citizen I have the right to say,or comment on the subject. Glad you have tried to put some in the picture. We are in the midst of electioneering and PM Brown is rather anxious of course. He is going to lose I think,and the Conservatives will replace New Labour.It's on the cards. So,this latest is a storm in the tea cup--undeservedly so too,and if the party thinks it will gain credit,then they must be desperate..

you dont know what you are talking about. israel and its leaders teach the wolrd how to fight and resist the devil if not wipe me out completely. think twice, be on the right side before it is too late. free advice!

I made Aliyah because I was fed up with sufferring from anti-semitism, which seems to be an inherent part of the British make-up - I was fed up living in a country whose foreign office had its head licking so far up the oil-sheikhs backsides that they did not know if it was night or day, I could no longer live in a country that worships the actions of its politicians and its soldiers in the post war years, when perfidious albion's actions went from the morally reprehensible to the morally indefensible.

Britain's (and France's) declaration of war in 1939 had nothing to do with the freedom of small nations, human rights or the salvation of the Jews. It was simply a continuation of a policy going back to Tudor times - to create and join coalitions in opposition to the then current strongest power in Europe. In turn this was: Spain, France (for a period of nearly 150 years), Germany and finally the USSR. Looking after number one was always the name of the game. After the fall of France the British were too far in, to back out, and had to fight on until the USA was finally bounced out of its neutrality at Pearl Harbour. It had nothing to do with altruism.

thats the brits and most countries in the world..leave israel alone.look at whats going on in your own back yard!

passports to be cloned..by any goverment!! the british goverment are hypocrites,just saaves the world looking at what they are doing in the mid east..

And what you wrote proves my point. She had better join Medinejad where she in fact belongs. All the prurring was a cynical approach because at the time we were discussing Iran. Why be so controversial when Iran is not the subject here and now?Could it be revenge for passed injury she felt? Purrring indeed more SCRACHING WITH HER PAWS!

The world from the Nazi beast If you are implying they did it for the Jews, you are, to put it nicely mistaken.

Wouldn't it be nice if other countries that have violated passports, in many cases to use them for terrorist purposes where treated as Israel has been treated. Double standards is synonymous with international behaviour towards Israel Even Jeremy Paxman on TV last night pointed out that the world is a better place without the Dubai target.

If they entered and left Israel on Israeli passports then you would have to wonder if they willingly provided the UK passports.

The Israelis faked James Bond's passport for this Mahboob movie, The Israelis deserve admiration for an operation in the middle of the Arab world. James bond and MI5 would not have dared to do this.

Speech by Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on 17 March 2010: "Can I make this point: the friendship between Australia and Israel is longstanding and it is enduring, and that will continue. Despite recent events, which have been the cause of public commentary between Australia and Israel, that friendship will endure. And the strength of the commitment of all sides of Australian politics, of both sides of the Parliament, shared by Governments of both political persuasions for a considerable period of time, our support for Israel, our support for a two-state solution, our support for a long-term sustainable, enduring peace in the Middle East is ongoing and our strong commitment to that will not, in any way, waiver." http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2010/100317_ailf.html

Dave, The typical British cowards of whom you complain presumably include the fighter pilots who stood in Hitler's path in 1940, without whose courage I doubt there would be a single Jew left alive other than, PERHAPS, in the United States. Presumably the war cemeteries in North Africa, Italy, France and Belgium are filled with the bones of similar cowards. I wonder what feats of martial glory allow you cast scorn on the courage of others. Shame on you!

Glen Harbisson If you believe that the actions of a Norman-French monarch in 1290 are in any way predictive of British attitudes and actions in 2010, then you are living on a very weird planet of your own. Get real, grow up and lose your precious sense of victimhood!

i declare war on UK

What are you talking about? Just a link to where I said what you claim will do. Iam not interested in your erotic fantasies either. PS Paul Rudd??

& sheer hypocrisy. OK for us but not for you.SAS hit squad kills IRA threat when they could have arrested them. If Israel kills an active enemy where arrest was not an option,you are outraged. Muslim terrorists debased British passports years ago.Where were the cries of treason etc from the "true Brits" who cant be British enough when it comes to Israel. No Iam not happy if Israel uses Australian passports but unlike you I protest when jihadists use them as they have,frequently,for years. Do we have your personal guarrantee that British Security services have not used/ will not use Australian passports?

Speech by Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith on 17 March 2010: "Can I make this point: the friendship between Australia and Israel is longstanding and it is enduring, and that will continue. Despite recent events, which have been the cause of public commentary between Australia and Israel, that friendship will endure. And the strength of the commitment of all sides of Australian politics, of both sides of the Parliament, shared by Governments of both political persuasions for a considerable period of time, our support for Israel, our support for a two-state solution, our support for a long-term sustainable, enduring peace in the Middle East is ongoing and our strong commitment to that will not, in any way, waiver." http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/speeches/2010/100317_ailf.html

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3867289,00.html On Tuesday, Britain's foreign secretary announced, without saying so explicitly, the expulsion of the Mossad's representative in London in response to the forging of United Kingdom passports ? however, despite the dramatic statement, Israel will soon send a replacement for the expelled representative, Ynet learned.

Ynetnews is reporting isarel is sending back a mossad rep replacement to the UK. This is all an election show by milliband.

And that is why the murdrous terrorist was killed. He was brought to justice.

Chris, Sorry old chum, but it's an election year in the UK, with a desperate and hopeless government, quite possibly on it way out, seeking to strike a chord with the gullible populace. Hence the action against Israel. And even then, it's just a slap on the wrist for Israel. Rejoice, ye. It's the best you'll get.

Yes it was worth it. Israel has a policy if you are a terrorist and you murder an Israei citizen you will be tracked down and murdered. As again the world watched the PLO murder the Israeli olympic members no one in the world was going to bring these animals to justice. Israel tracked every one who was involved down and paid them back. Sancitions may be a deterent but payback is what a terrorist understands. And Israel will continue to do what it has to do.You do not live where rockets are dropped on you, or there is a national holiday for a man who drove a car full of explosives into a bus killing woman and children. It is plain to see all the hatred and anti semitism coming out from bloggers on the internet from all over the world. So again Israel must protect herself.

Like many other countries, Israel sends its intelligence services into other people's territory to spy on, subvert and sometimes kill its enemies and those standing in the way. It does so because it realises that high-minded ideals about international law and morality are not always sufficient to protect what it sees as its national interests. But other counties also have their national interests and are similarly entitled to protect these. In this case, it's clearly in Britain's national interest to place as much day light as possible between itself and Israel. For Israel and its supporters to argue anything else is just hypocisy.

So it's OK for Mahmoud al-Mabhouh to travel on a false passport but no one else? Beyond circumstantial evidence there is no proof that the Israeli's did this. Don't forget that Hamas has murdered their own a few times over the last decade. Perhaps is was the Mossad but there are alot of assumptions being made in this affair. When Americans, Turks and Russians and others assasinate no one kicks up this much fuss. How uterly sanctimonious of the world to behave like this against Israel.

I really think israel is guilty...and I support she! Or do you ppl really belives that MI6 or CIA agents go around using british or american passports?

I do not believe this is Israel's doing. Way to sloppy. They are not denying it because in the Middle East Might Makes Right.

Who was responsible for starting the hellish morass in Palestine? Great Britain, on whose empire the sun never set, drugged senseless on delusions of eternal colonialism, posted the accursed Balfour Declaration in 1917. Great Britain had also promised the Arabs sovereignty in return for their aid in expulsing the Ottomans. Treacherous Albion, now you are trying to slap the gargantuan fist of the monster that you helped create.

Iranian/British intelligence cooporation is as likely as you passing a psyciatric test. The fact those 2 agents left to Iran might have much more to do with somme mysterious assisenations among Iranian nuclear scientists a week befor.

it sounds more like, absolute vodka. Have you been drinking? Please,please, no more conspiracy theories.

How do Pinochet, Karadjic, Milosovic and several Africans fit into your immunity argument? Their ratione materiae hasn't done them much good, didn't stop them being arrested, did it?

Your people in Iran are being murdered by the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guards and you are crying about English people's passports! Have you ever studied law? Free the People, marg bar diktator! Am Yisrael Chai. THe

and all the other countries purported to have had passports used by mossad, had been angry at hamas (instead we got disinterested nonchalance), then this would not have happened. what they are doing is sending rescue missions to the biggest recipients of eu aid (nor sudan say), in an impoverished arabia and the world, and threatening livni (of all people) with arrest. if they had been angry at hamas (instead of sending their secret service to talk with them) for their continous artillery provocations, then this might not have happened. as if they care. well they might if gibraltar falls to hamas/any variety of radical islam, with their targeting of spain in 20-30 years time. meanwhile...

Ah, Michael. Persistent British Jew-hater. You offered us a land, then gave 78% to Abdullah. You offered us the remainder, then gave half away to those who would not, to this day, take it unless they could have all. You issued the White Paper, condemning thousands to death at the hands of the Nazis. You blockaded the Exodus, among other ships attempting to bring the Jewish remnant to their home. You fork over your country now to those who will annihilate you. ALL THIS, ALL THIS, SO THAT THOSE DAMNED JEWS CAN NEVER LIVE IN PEACE AND FREEDOM IN THEIR LITTLE HISTORICAL SLIVER OF LAND. J'accuse, Michael. J'accuse.

If you hold foreign passport and traveled to Israel, Mossad might use it and fulfill your wishes. Now think about it - Dubai police actually did a great favor to all those passport holders for making the info public. If they would have decided not to publish the info and conduct their investigation quite, all those passport holders would have been arrested the minute they left Israel. Perhaps you would like to reconsider?

Miliband was fully supported in the House of Commons by Hague, the Tory spokesman, and by about a dozen MPs of all parties, most of whom wanted a much stronger response. No one spoke against him. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the election, and everything with protecting the interests of British citizens.

Two U.S. service men and a Turkish woman were killed, 229 wounded, including 79 Americans, when the La Belle disco in West Berlin was bombed. Ten days later, in retaliation the U.S. bombed Libya. It is thought the bombing was an attempt to kill Ghaddafi. His little daughter was killed by the bombing. The refusal of Western secret agents to co-operate with prosecution, was partly to blame for no evidence to link Colonel Ghadaffi.(BBC News) Mossad, CIA, Oliver North, German TV/Mossad, Ostrovsky/Mossad transmitter Tripoli/fake messages, Lockerbie ...all worth investigating further! Read: AANGIRFAN http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-evidence-on-lockerbie-appears-to.html Why was Al-Megrahi pressured into abandoning his appeal against the conviction of the Lockerbie bombing?

how do you know if our law is not as civilized as ireland? how is it that a 12 year old child like yourself who has never been abroad knows aything? grow up... you are a bigot just in case you want to get the last word in, like a child... i am done arguing with you.. child and bigot

Tell the truth, or fold into the rag called the Jerusalem Post.

This expulsion has everything to do with the upcoming general election, expected to be our closest election in recent history and was done to appeal purely to the Muslim vote. Disgusting. Milliband hang your head in shame.

Im starting to believe that there is a relation between Jews & Arabs. It is also reflected in how close both religions are. It seems that the Mossad executed this mission which such clumsiness that Arabs would.

I left Israel in 1979 and altho' my heart is still with you I am glad I am no longer there with the extreme right wing govt you now have.

"I feel that our relationship with Israel has become increasingly symbiotic parasitic, just sucking my tax-dollars ... you do recall USS Liberty incident, no?" (Persian Kitty) This is the Kitty who was hiding all the time behind her love of poor Iranians... and love of cats too... Indeed, my bitch Jossie loved my cats too...same here...recalling Liberty eh?? Unbelievable how we all fell for that "kitty, kitty, kitty...". A good lesson learned while blogging... in Israel...about them, who "Kittied" us during the entire Iranian revolution, while at the same time provided tens of thousands of rockets to those who want to kill us all, to the very last of us... while at the same time professing "love of America"! Phuyah!

"to expel the Israeli diplomat, and to issue a statement saying- forging a passport is illegal, and if Israel was behind it, good work." Errr..... isn't that what just happened? (In private at least)Couldn't be seen to say so in public now, could we?

I've posted the link with details from the interpol site twice but seems its against the rules here, so just google it and find all details, about the Surname (family name) of Mabhouh its very known here that many ppl have only three names in their passports and thats 100% legal . his passport was not fakes one. try n read the full story from the media here and you will know all facts

Anyone who aids an abetts any person who murders an Israeli, should be charged with murder!!, regardless of where they commit the crime. Are nots the Brits aiding Hamas to kill Israelis!

"If Mossad did do it wouldn`t England do the same if someone they knew was planning to buy weapons to bomb England." I note that Mr Milliband didn't condemn the assassination. He condemned the use of British passport holder?s identities to carry it out. Quite different I think.

Because Britain says this it must be true?? this is the country that said Saddam could blow England up in 45 minutes and then used that to go to war and probably killed around a half to a million Iraqis. Hypocritically Britain pointed the finger at Israel for what happened in Gaza and tried to arrest Livni in a sly way on war crimes unexpectedly, the big difference is that Israel was trying to take out militants attacking Israel and England was on a foreign adventure, so England needs a smoke screen and thats Israel. It wouldn't supprise me that England was trying to frame Mossad, and if Mossad did do it wouldn't England do the same if someone they knew was planning to buy weapons to bomb England.

Why was Dubai hosting a known terrorist anyway? Is not Britain pleased that a terrorist was eliminated when its supposedly a part of the war against terror? Anyone pay attention how Israelis and often Jews are not legally allowed to enter most Muslim nations including Dubai? I say job well done (if Israel is responsible)!

Now, is he anti semitic?

At least Britain has the guts to take even symbolic action against a nation it thought was its friend. The truth of the matter is, Israel will do whatever it wants (or thinks it has to do) with no thought for its allies. It is a completely self-absorbed nation that has gotten used to all the benefits of friendship with the West, but never really reciprocates that friendship--unless of course it coincides with its own interests. If only we in the U.S. had as much political courage as Great Britain.

I heard the statement live on the radio and was disgusted by Miliband's deception which is typically New Labour. Note the way that Milliband talked of 'compelling reasons' but hid behind 'legal reasons' and 'intelligence' to refrain from disclosing them;a common New Labour ploy that we've heard time after time. Then moving swiftly on,Miliband's 'compelling reasons' immediately became 'evidence' and 'facts'. But I have a feeling that Miliband knew he was on shaky ground because he also left us with another false impression that is repeated here.DESPITE THE IMPRESSION HE GAVE,NO ISRAELI DIPLOMAT WAS EXPELLED;ONE WAS INVITED TO LEAVE ON HIS OWN ACCORD. We now have anti-Israel innuendo and insinuation established in the House of Commons by a New Labour Foreign Secretary. I hope that Mr Lieberman comes back robustly and wipes the floor with Miliband. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

You must not be familiar with my posts! Obviously, you embarrass yourself into thinking I'm anti-Israel where I'm not and very much for Israelis and the plight of the Jews. I, however, do have a problem with a number of Israeli politicians' agenda which I, personally feel harmful to the very Israelis that I care about. Before you accuse me of evil-doing (pretty preposterous,I'd say) why don't you read my earlier post on Persian/Jew relations: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/ResponseDetails.jhtml?resNo=5861540&itemno=1158151&cont=2 There's not a feasible way you can pretty-up USS Liberty, we know what happened and just because we are decent people don't mistake us for being stupid. And our patience isn't bottomless. As for 9/11, while Iran had no connections to the tragedy, Iranians risked their lives to hold candle light vigils for the victims against the regime-not even the Isrealis did so......

i bet they cant expel US diplomats over thousand CIA assassinations and abductions made in same way. West is so weakened and fragile now? same as WWII WWI they just wait and see as their allies fall and gone far this time blaming allies?? Poland was eaten by germany and Russia they just watched. guess what this time US is not as strong as in WWII better treat your allies well.

Canadian offers his passport for a future killing and also writes: "Long live democracy." Here's the thing, Canadian, the cornerstone of a democracy is the rule of law, and extrajudicial killing should play no part in a country which claims to be a democracy. Israel usually flouts international law with impunity, but this time they have been found out and rightly punished. I look forward to the day when Israel is also punished for its Geneva Convention breaches in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Look in the mirror!!!Typical israeli atitude - deluded and arrogant (how many UN resolutions has israel breeched???)

Perhaps this is the beginning of another mass expulsion. It's in the British genes.

I believe that the GANGSTER Netanyahu should and could be arrested RIGHT NOW.

"So if Israel cloned the passports, then presumably Netanyahu ordered the killing. In which case, as soon as his rickety coalition falls and he no longer has diplomatic immunity, Interpol are going to want him for a nice long chat." Hmm, well no actually. Apart from your obvious and total ignorance of what Interpol actually does, your attempt at stating the international law on immunity is hopeless. The immunity Bibi would assert would almost certainly be state, not diplomatic, immunity and would survive his absence from public life. This is because while his immunity rationae temporis would disappear, his immunity ratione materiae (essentially for official acts)would not. I can't stand Bibi, but inventing law so you can fantazise about his arrest doesn't really accomplish much.

This is a political not a judicial decision. David Miliband has admitted that there is no proof. The Israeli diplomat has been expelled on basis that Israel has the motive and the means of carrying out this mission alone. This explusion, weeks before an election is aimed 100% at the 15% British Muslim electorate, which is important in what is expected to be the closest election in this country in many years.

If UK issued an arrest warrant, Imagine the trial. The prosecution would have to provide evidence, the defence would be able to sit back and do BULLSHIT, beucase they have none. Then after the acquittal Israel would demand an apology and would not be able to be retried, prosecution would have to file an appeal citing a mistake in the judges interpretation of the Law or in the case facts. Prosecution would be unable to retry if new facts came to light after original ruling. Essentially it would shut the issue up, and if the UK had a morsel of proof and some balls it would do it. But the UK knows it has no case hence playing politics not law. But press for it my friend I see it helping Israel in the end. Cheers

It is difficult to find a good rational reason for the assassination in Dubai. Mabhouh was not known as a man of u8nusual capabilities, nor did his job of procuring arms from Iran require a whole lot of talent, since Iran was an eager seller (giver, to be precise). OK, being a high enough Hamas official, it was not a bad idea to eliminate him, But at what cost, for God's sake? Imagine sending 27 (twenty seven) assassins for such a simple job, risking their lives and liberty (and now losing their ability to serve). This was the work by somebody who wanted to demonstrate that nothing will stop him once he decides on something, a megalomaniac by the name of Dagan (Mossad chief). Thank God he is going to be retired in a few months.

to expel the Israeli diplomat, and to issue a statement saying- forging a passport is illegal, and if Israel was behind it, good work.

Great idea! As a true friend of Israel, I want to earnestly urge all Israelis to take up Josef's cry. It's a pity Hamas et al don't seem to be any brighter than you are. If they were, they'd have set up a project for encouraging Israel to just be herself twenty years ago, and their problems would be solved by now.

I suggest Australia, France, Germany and Ireland have to do the same as soon as possible.

The assination of an official that betrays his own people through the perpetuation of this conflict is a just cause, and I support any future actions that are in line with this aim. Long live democracy.

point 1: The proper way of justice whereby allegations are proven a suspect is arrested and tried. This works great, the suspect should even be arrested with some hard facts leading to probable cause. but yes certainly true. ISRAEL HAS NOT BEEN TRIED IN ABSENTIA, LIKE GE'ERT WILDERS FOR FITNA, EVEN IF ISRAEL DIDN'T CO-OPERATE THAT DOES NOT MAKE THEM GUILTY. ISRAEL IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO CO-OPERATE, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THE WAY THE BRITS JUMPED WITH NO EVIDENCE WHY WOULD YOU DO THEM ANY FAVOURS? FOR EXAMPLE, WHAT IF ISRAEL HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, BUT GAINS A LOT BY HAVING ARAB NATIONS THINKING IT IS THAT POWERFUL? WHY SHOULD ISRAEL BE FORCED TO SAY EITHER WAY? "You refuse to coperate--chances are you have something to hide---" IT IS STILL JUST THAT, CHANCES, THERE IS NO PROOF, NO EVIDENCE, JUST CHANCES. I HOPE IRELAND ADOPTS THE LEGAL SYSTEM YOU'VE JUST DESCRIBED, IF ONLY TO TEACH YOU A LESSON.

You know the entry form you fill in before you land. Maybe on entering Israel there should be a question." Do you mind us cloning your passport so we can kill a terrorist using your passport"?Let me think about it.

NUTS,NO ISRAELI CAN TRAVEL TO ISRAEL WITHOUT PRESENTING HIS ISRAELI PASSPORT NOR CAN AN ISRAELI LEAVING ISRAEL WITHOUT SHOWING HIS ISRAELI PASSPORT MAY HE BE BRITISH, IRISH OR WHATEVER. WHEN DID THE UK EVER SHOWED NO DISREGARD TOWARDS OTHER COUNTRIES WHEN IT SERVED TO THEM? ISRAEL IS A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY AND NEEDS NO LESSONS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES AND FOR SURE NOT FROM LONDONISTAN.

So Israel is not that stupid...let's see recently they seriously undermined relations with both Turkey and the US...for what purpose?

To bring on your own non-Internationally approved initiatives (eg all the ones against UN resoutions), you need USA cash... USA always more sorely needs cash from the rest of the World... the rest of the World is starting to be bothered with you. So flat out, in the next decates you'll be forced to respect International Law in the end.... that includes 1963 borders. Dream on until the cash ends

haha..some people have no sense of humour...you're right....they need to chill out!

idiots? Yes! And they deserve it! They earned this slap in the face. And this thing ain't over, not by a long shot.

"Tamim stated clearly that he was travelling in real passport but his surname is not mentioned in his passport thats why he was not recognized." what did they enter in the field "SURNAME" ? nothing ? "n/a" ? what did he sign the document with ? "mahmoud" ? a passport REQUIRES a last name. and if he didnt mention it, something ELSE was printed into this field. something different from his last name. * that makes a forged passport document, dr. mike. *

Let's notm forget what happened inn Gibraltar

everybody has an opinion ! And this include the looser Brits . The simplistically assuming posters on this site do not surprise me at all .

..in fact maybe Tony Blair could do us the honour.

When all is said and done, was this act of vengeance worth it? ... If it is vengeance it is not worth , but in this case this well known terrorist was still very active and fortunately he was stopped . It is better sooner then later to eliminate terror wherever they threaten lives .

They work for the Brits whose embassy is operated by Palestinains not Israelis.

The Mossad agents who were exposed using British passports in the Dubai assassination are just the tip of the iceberg. There is no way that those stolen passports that were exposed were the ONLY stolen passports. England must demand the public return of ALL stolen/forged passports held by Israeli agents, not just those who were exposed.

God Morning. Coffe anyone.

Why does Israel need security cooperation with UK, they will probably divulge israel intelligence given them to arabs.

Can we arrest Netanyahu now then?.... Don't be stupid , this was a perfect address . And If Natanyahu did it he deserves a gold medal for serving the humanity . Actually every decent gov should conspire to eliminate your terrorist friends .

to #30 you our correct we here aren't particularly hacked off about the death of a terrorist but the use of our forged passports and the contempt that shows

We have heard about this Mossad mission because it was so badly planned and was botched in detail. How about those missions that don't fall apart? You can bet that Israel uses other nations passports every time. A bonus of this routine is that Israel can get credit on these identity thefts and thus avoid paying any bills. How great is that!? We know that this is common criminal behavior, but now we know that it is also Israel that we must guard against.

any proofs are given . This kind of absolutely unfair assumptions are directed against no other country in the world . Sounds familiar ????? PS: This is the main reason Israel should never care about the world's opinion since it will always , regardless of any proof , be tilted in favor of her enemies .

lots of ppl here says that Mabhouh was travelling in fake passport and thats not true. Tamim stated clearly that he was travelling in real passport but his surname is not mentioned in his passport thats why he was not recognized. i suggest you all read the news from the source only

The worst crimes were committed by the British Empire during decades. Now they cry outrage for passports without a clue, or more precisely, with a clue of a somewhat clumsy but efficient operation to eliminate a cold blood killer. Israel does them the favor of a curtain: they may use and even a little believe in understatements. But they killed their Oscar Wilde, who knew the best how British Society is constructed. Miliband is a little clown trying to appear with some old British dignity. Puff!

Being insulted but at the same time uses gentle words to describe the insulter, is just a soft toughness. Miliband talking about misusing UK passport, threatening british nationals, etc is a serious matter. It can be even regarded as a form of terrorism when threatening the lives of others. Might be the political diplomacy which makes him speak in such soft language. Just the same thing with the US. The international dissatisfaction with Israel has just started due to Bibi's occupational policies. I guess over time things will be more apparent to the world which I hope will push for an end to the Palestinian struggle.

#114, excellent , i ready had not thought about it in this way, but joking apart, its really serious to clone ones passport, which we give in trust when entering international airports

suspect says prove it. Cops prove it--suspect is arrested and tried. Alternatively --suspect fails to appear--guilty by default. That is Israel---refusing to coperate by refusing to state we "ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE/GUILTY/INVOLVED/KNOW NOTHING". Let me assure you , the law in Ireland is far more civilised in Ireland than it is in Israel. Be absolutely certain of that. You refuse to coperate--chances are you have something to hide---Goldstone process is the same issue. Israel refusing to co operate. What were they hiding then. In any case--the Brits have found someting and are simply confirming that which the rest of the planet alrady believes--Israel is guilty. Consummate liars gain a reputation and it sticks.

1)15 British, 4 Australian, 4 French, 3 Irish, and one German passport were used in the case and the common denominator to all is Duel Israeli/foreign nationals. 2)Credit cards used by those passports holders to purchase airline tickets as well as hotel accommodations in Dubai were tracked to a NYC based Israeli outfit connected to Israeli intelligence. Any further investigation on that track by the US FBI seems to have hit a dead end , we wonder why. 3)Despite all allegations against it, Israel has never denied it was responsible, we wonder why. 4)Any one familiar with Israelis couldn?t have mistaken the identity of the characters captured by the CCTV in Dubai. Apparently the British followed the above and came to a conclusion. Don?t be surprised when the Irish, French and Aussies come to the same conclusion. Because of History and the single passport used Germany might let this one go.

"if you are not taking tamim`s press release seriously other professionals do. check the Interpol web site" I did check Interpol's web site. I find nothing about the mysterious and untimely death of the Hamas terrorist. Could you provide more detail on where I should be looking?

This means that you are not loyal to the country that offered you its passeport. You hypocrite return this citizenship to the loyal and true citizens

in which planet do you live? the interpol already issued a red notice to arrest the killers. if you are not taking tamim's press release seriously other professionals do. check the Interpol web site Mr.

That's the way grownups act when they want to put an affair asode and get back to normal business. Make you no mistake, British-Israeli relations have not been hurt at all by the Mabhouh affair.

All because of East Jerusalem construction of course and because Bibi is in USA and the UK wants him to be embarrassed. I want to know which passport the woman had who left Dubai on a ship to Iran? Nobody curious?

and Mabhouh paid for it.

but that's SOP and we can check that one off. Real-life diplomacy doesn't operate according to your ideologiy. Actually, your government doesn't mind at all that the Mossad took out Mabhouh. but it has to register a protest for the record.

This scum bag is dead, who cares who did or why. So how many people were killed because of his actions? Until the us, eu and nato hold iran and all terrorists responsible for their actions, Israel must act alone. For the world has given No assurances they are serious, all politico jocking to put a good face forward. Actions speak louder than words, and there has been no actions taken on iran, hamas, hizbollah, syria, turkey and the rest. These islamic rogue governments have their eye on the prize and will do anything to get it. The paly's are only an excuse for all their actions covert and overt.

It seems the Brits lost any common sense. Obviously it is more important to them to protect a serial killer than than to defend a democracy in a region dominated by state controlled terrorism

Israel has a lot of friends left lol. I think theres is still some jewish extremist in USA left

biggest recipient of usd aid is western europe....try trillions and many us heroes buried in cemetries. whats yr prob with forged passports, everybody does it ?

Your entire post can be reworded and written in a way that instead of being anti Israel is Anti Muslim and Arab. Want to see? just to note I do not condone this, but you asked for it when you decide to make an attack on a country I care very deeply about. So read, but understand these are not my beliefs For example on USS Liberty, one would just need to recount the various Muslims attacks that were on purpose,As well, it is worth noting that USS liberty is the only incident of its kind that was never Congressionally investigated, as they agreed it was an Accident. NOT LIKE 911, that was MURDER On Passports, Mabouh used fake EU passports for years it was only until his death by the hands of people who might have used fake foreign passports that the issue came due. What you are doing is evil, how would you like it if someone did it to Muslims in USA? it would be immoral and evil too

Well British Zionist, since you seem to think Israel is so great a country as compared to ridiculous Great Britain, please make aliyah and join us here! Come enjoy the low standard of living, the anguish of having your kids serve in the military, the danger of traveling on an Israeli pasport abroad, the impossibility of getting civil marriage like in any modern country, the pain of enduring neverending security checks any time you want to fly... COME! And don't forget to renounce your British nationality before, like this you'll be truly the equal of ordinary Israeli citizens.

Stealing foreign passports and endangering innocent foreigners is simply unacceptable. Good Old Britain proves again it's a sovereign country you don't mess with.

The "Frank discussion on the basis of Allies" you speak of, if ever it were to take place, ought to have happened BEFORE mossad used British passport holders identities to commit murder and then allow themselves to be caught, thereby potentially endangering the lives and liberties of British subjects. Why do you feel it appropriate to hold such discussions in secret? To spare Israel the embarrassment it so richly deserves? The world knows that the British are allies of Israel, if we are not seen to protest very strongly on this issue we may well be thought to have colluded with them, thereby further damaging the standing of UK interests in the middle east and possibly increasing the hostility towards UK nationals.

what an embarrassment. boycott the uk, cease sharing info. i'm ashamed. britain is going to the wall, infact, its utterly broken. Miliband should be ashamed. Is this to do with the GE? Pathetic. And still - wheres the proof? we should only be learning from Israel and her love and defence of its citizens. the UK is a joke. i hope the people of Israel find it in their hearts to forgive us one day, and in the meantime, please, by all means, expell one of ours. We do not deserve you. G-d Bless Israel.

I am no legal expeert but in the case of Mabouh using forged passports: he is dead and no government,to my knowledge, brought charges against him for using their nation's passports. He was an individual not a government. Israel has consistently used forged passports (witness the cases a few yrs ago in Australia and NZ) to carry out its covert operations and assasinations. It lies and denies to its allies. It is a case quite different than an idividual engaging in illegal behaviour and forgery. Israel has ben investiagated and found to be implicated. It must be severely lunished. Cutting off diplomatic relations and all funding would be an appropriate response to a country that acts thus while calling itself an "ally".

The West is running out of patience with the arrogance of Israel. If Israel cannot respect its allies then Israel should go it alone. Israel needs the West far more than the West needs Israel.

At least someone has the balls to call the Israelis on their forgery and clumsy mob hit in Dubai. I guess there isn't a foreign-interest lobbying group in Britain that dictates their foreign policy huh . . . unlike in America where our government's balls are squeezed by AIPAC every time they feel that our Middle East policy is not going according to Israel's "best interests" . . I mean, shouldn't America's foreign policy be based on America's best interest?

You could never count on England as one of Israel's friends. And by the way, was a Russian minister expelled over the Russian Spy assasinated in an English hospital?

Perhaps I just haven't had enough coffee today but, what in G-ds name are you trying to state? You believe Tamim actually did some good in this investigation? Here in Canada, everyone has been laughing at the Tamim, and his incompetence, coupled with his eager my mouth that when it opens only espouses more BS and makes us laugh harder.

warm like when things are heating up between two enemies, one a former colonizer, the other - the freed colony? warm like ties between jews and germans immediately after the allied forces rescued us? warm like prey fresh from the kill toward the predator? haaretz is often ridiculous, but this takes the (warmed up) cake!

is the zio entity trying to destroy itself? good job!!

Works, Why must one offer a defence to a legal case that has no evidence to provide against them? Why is the argument, I will defend myself against your proofs not valid? In any court of law, the Defense is under no Legal obligation to make any statements, hence the reason why the Prosecution is forced to present its case FIRST then the Defence makes their case in refutation of the prosecution. Hence the idea, YOU ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, NOT GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. DO YOU NOT THINK THAT YOUR LOGIC IF EMPLOYED UNIVERSALLY WOULD CASE A SH*T LOAD OF ISSUES? ERODE ONE OF THE BASIC PILLARS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC LEGAL TRADITIONS. OR IS THAT THE ABOVE ONLY APPLIES TO ISRAEL, ALL OTHERS ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, LIKE DUBAI, ITS HARBOURED MABOUH KNOWING HE WAS USING FAKE PASSPORTS FOR HOW LONG? BUT NO, THEY ARE 100% INNOCENT, WHEN IT COMES TO FORGED EU PASSPORTS. RIGHT?

What a Joke, what's next the Inglish will need to expel British Agent 007 for using fake pasports. There is not concrete proof that the Mosad kill him, is absurd to think that they will ned 26 people to kill one person. Who ever kill this terrorist help to send a mesage that the terrorist like Hamas are not safe on the Arab contries any more.

israel can clone a UK or EU passport in 20 minutes, that seems highly implausible or else Israel has some of the best technology that can be mustered. If that is the case I would not F88K with them, imagine in under 20 minutes they can make a slew of foreign passports. "But the Foreign Office made it clear to Prosor that the probe had determined for certain that the passports were forged when British citizens passed through airports on their way into Israel, with officials taking them away for 'checks' which lasted around 20 minutes" Personally, what this reminds me of is the words of a disgusting example of a human being, a thing so vile and repulsive it does not deserves even the pronouns that refer to it as human, this THING, once said, "the great masses of the people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one" Being able to forge or clone passports from one of the most developed countries in under 20 minutes? Hmm...

The action by the UK will be repeated not only by France but Ireland and the other nations whose passports were forged by the Israeli network to carry out murder. No matter how you look at it this is not a good moment for Israel. They have been exposed and a price will have to be paid. They have lost any respect or respectability in the eyes of the international community.

the good side of this Israel reputation is screwed up like usual. well done Dubai Police. count down already started

" They refused to assert their innocence." I always thought you were innocent until proven guilty, not guilty until proven innocent. That is how the rest of the world works, so thank you for showing your bias against Israel. In Ireland is that how it works too? You must prove your innonence rather than someone prove your guilt? Labhras you have to get a head on your shoulders man, That logic is just dumbfounding and when you apply it to Israel alone well you show your colours well

As a Brit I can't say I'm at all happy with the way this affair is panning out. I can't help but wonder why this spat has to be played out in front of the public gallery. I do accept that there is a frank discussion that needs to take place between the two governments, but I'd far rather that discusssion take place behind closed doors on the basis as allies. There is a lot of rubbish commented on this site about Britain's motives, but on the other side of the coin we don't seem to hold Israel's neighbours to the same exacting standards that we do of Israel.

I support the Israeli and Jewish People. The rest of these problems are far too complicated for me to even comment on. I am fed up with the news today and have a big headache now! Use common sense people!

Let's just get the FACTS Straight. We can have opinions but when they are not grounded in any fact, and furthermore go against the facts that currently exist, we should be skeptical of them. WHAT DO WE KNOW? Mabouh used fake EU passports for years upon years, in fact that is probably one piece of solid evidence that is actually in Dubai. Two Palestnians and a possible third were alleged to have involvement, but since being caught in Jordan and syria, who knows about them now. What Do we not know of, ANY ISRAEL INVOLVEMENT, all evidence against Israelis have been proven false, SO what can we conclude about Britain using the above? Britain believes strongly in reprimands based on Opinion when there exists no evidence to prove the facts and that when an ARAB STATE Uses and endorses the user of forged EU passports Britain will be silent, unless that person is KILLED. How does this make any sense to anyone? Or those not on drugs and-or high on hate.

As far as the Irish are concerned the bone of contention is the missuse of the Irish passports. All this bluster from Israelis in Israel and their supporters elsewhere, who are not prepared to live there, about "innocent 'till proven guilty" is absolute rubbish. That's in criminal trials. In diplomatic disputes it's the accused (Israel) which carries the burden of proof - convince us you did not do it - if you can and if you want to. Further up the thread, I don't think a country can be defamed - live with it. I've been waiting for the Catholic church situation to be brought up. Child abuse is not entirely unknown among the Jews either. The reason why Ireland is currently to the front in this connection is because extensive investigations have been carried out here, without fear or favour, and the reports have been published, "warts and all". Israel could take lessons from Ireland in this regard, not least where the depredations of the IDF and your border police are concerned.

other countries consider certain Israeli citizens "terrible guys" and murder them? Where is the logic in that?

I have to admire the way you conveniently left out the Balfour Declararion out of that nice little snippet of potted history.

So I guess this means that Britain's secret service, and that of other countries, will have to be extra careful the next time THEY use stolen or copied passports for undercover work.

Actually you will find that the last time an Israeli diplomat was expelled from the UK it was under the Thatcher government. I think you have a hard case to make in terms of either Labour or the conservatives being anti-Israel. Jack Straw (current Minister for Justice, and previously Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary)is of course Jewish. Michael Howard of the Tories would have been British PM had he beaten Blair, Nigel Lawson (Nigella's dad) was Chancellor. When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail. Stop trying to tar people or nations with the anti-semitic brush. It's not big and it's not clever.

Britain has funny way to show justice. They let the guy go who was involved with Locabee bombing. Dubia nneeds money from oil rich Arab countries. Who can beat that

Miliband the coward meanwhile allows our country to be overrun by Al Quaida sympathisers. He should resign.

I do understand the outrage and indignation by the Israel haters here.As is well known the normal punishment for forged papers in the UK is a council house and full benefits followed by a genuine British passport which can then be used to commit as much terrorism as possible.

Now Israel can expel a Brit or 2. UK has no proof and Miliband is no friend of Israel.

Read your post and try to understand why the whole world is turning on you. Countries around the world have economic exchanges with eachother that are beneficial to both sides. When one side BETRAYS the trust of the other side, what do you expect exactly? Forging official government documents is ILLEGAL all over the world and it's really looked down on in western democratic countries where we believe in the rule of law. If you find that difficult to comprehend, then there is something massively wrong with your reasoning skills. As for my country, I feel that our relationship with Israel has become increasingly symbiotic parasitic, just sucking my tax-dollars and acting like a spoiled brat. And save your boohaha on sharing info, you do recall USS Liberty incident, no?

A friend of mine had just had his passport renewed and his first trip with the new passport was to Israel. At the borders there seemed to be some "mix up" and his passport was "misplaced". After about an hour they told him that they couldn't locate his passport and gave him a paper to that effect. He later went back to his country and, using that paper, was able to get a new passport. What happened to the passport that was "lost" was never determined. Well now we know!

The NATO which includes the most rich and civilised countries in the world order the killing of terrorits in afghanistan. They then kill the terrorists along with family and friends who are not terrorists. After the killing we gloat over it in the media of how we are tackling terrorism etc. So only certain nations can kill terrorists the ones who belong to NATO.

SOP. Tell UK to either present proof that the Mossad was involved, retreat, or a Brit diplomat of equal rank will be expelled from Israel. Big deal, another will replace him, Israel obviously doesn't name its "Mossad representatives". Neither Israel or US shares sensitive anti-terrorist intel with Brits MI6 because it quickly winds up in Arab hands. Same was true with USSR intel before 1990's - Israel and US found that Britain was a conduit for shipping secret intel they received on Russkis straight to the KGB. So sharing stopped. Brits always play both ends against the middle - as we found with release of the Pan Am mass murderer of 300 Americans so UK could get a special oil deal with Libya.

"Why would he want to make aliyah to Israel. He has freedom of thought and religion, freedom to travel on a British Passport, a free health service at the point of use, state benefits" Your response to Chris Linthwaite's point. "As an Israeli citizen he would be entitled to all of the above and a better quality of life than the UK. So why wouldn`t he?" I know we've discussed this issue before, but it's that split loyalties thing. You call yourself a British Zionist but you seem to reserve your affections for Israel and your criticism for Britain. Is it just that I haven't read the posts where you show affection for Britain and criticise Israel? If that's the case, fair enough, otherwise why not make aliyah? They're dying to have you over there and we wouldn't want to stop you going if you don't like it here.

which one?

They had bungled investigation of the bommbing of the "Mike Place" in Tel Aviv by two Brit nationals. Had they sincerely followed through it they would have discovered the threat of London subway bombers. Perfidy and desire to serve arabs are at the forefront of the Brit mindset

Information? It's never sure any of the ones on the picture were involved. Neither can be said, by no means, who those people are: passports in their possesion weren't theirs at the moment an unknown "officer" found out they weren't people they ("the others") thought they were. But, who are they?! False passports cannot tell who they (really) are! They only told who they were not, not who they were/are. So, who are those people and couldn't it have been other people were the ones who really did it?! That could even be one or other hotel employee. Who could say that can be disregarded? Maybe the female hotel employee in the picture is involved?! Who knows or tells?

Good move G.B.! Italy should start expelling Mossas agents trans-vested as Israeli diplomats

no big deal, wait and see

as a brit i simply find the representatives of the Crown have fallen so low that i have lost all faith. expenses scandal was basically benefit fraud. they represent their own selfish interests and ego, a big gravy train all the way to MEP status.... a career chasing money not the good of the country. what does that have to do with aliyah as opoosed to wanting to live in usa or aus ?

Thank you for your heroic work and showing the world that if you are responsible for killing innocent Israelis you will pay a heavy price and that you will do whatever is needed.

Ask what MI 5 IS Thinking about it

See his post #101 --in which he allows himself the right to decide the value of the life od a non Israeli citizen versus the theft of a passport.

See why the Europeans are starting to hate us more and more... See who acts and talks like a terrorist. Shame. Shame. Shame

Actually Chris I said that nothing more would happen than a diplomatic slap on the wrist which is what this really is. However I do take your point. I also agree with you that it is actually quite entertaining.

So 3 British Labour Parliamentarians were suspended for having their hand in the till - what a disgrace! Israel should expel one British diplomat from Israel and raise them 2. The less conniving British influence in Israel the better - and don't send the Londonistanians to Australia either - we don't want them.

Since he was accused of killing two Israeli soldiers, and not civilians, how can he be accused of being a terrorist? Isn't the killing of soldiers considered an act of war and not an act of terrorism?

"British citizens passed through airports on their way into Israel, with officials taking them away for 'checks' which lasted around 20 minutes." This people also Israeli citizens, and I, as holder of dual citizenship know for a fact that Israeli citizen requierd to present Israeli passport wile traveling to or from Israel, and not any other passport.

the act was almost public on purpose you know, to serve as some kind of warning. That is if the Mossad was responsible. Israelis are a pretty macho people and acts like this seem to boost their confidence. And the message is clear do not mess with us, we'll know how to reach you and deal with you. It has appearances of a botched job but I seriously doubt it was that. And after all the target was neutralized.

I am sure we do, it is most likely that we would tell a friendly government what we know if an individual was in their country, Dubai being one and have him quitely arrested and deported to face charges, The issue here of course being not whether the United Kingdom's intelligence agencies use dirty tricks, but whetehr they get caught. Mossad got caught, if they hadn't been caught there would have been no recriminations. Everyone knows it happens everyone knows when you get caught the shit hits the fan. But then you probably believe in the goy in the goyim stuff.

The West,US and Brits in particular, has no regard for other nations except for how they can be used by the West. To have the ever clumsy CIA stealing identities, obtaining fraudulent credit, and conducting criminal activities, victimizing the people of any nation tells us a lot about the West. It doesn`t tell us anything that surprises us though. Wonder what Olly North or Tricky Dick would say? I also doubt that the KGB or Stasi were not doing the same.

After WW1 the British held the mandate for most of the Middle East including that sliver of land they called Palestine. When they were pulling out in May of 1947 they knew that the Jewish Palmach was way under manned and armed as compared to the Arab armies. To make matters worse the Brits were leaving the high ground defenses and their armaments to the Arabs. The feeling amongst the Brits was that the Arab armies would make mince meat of the Jews. The thought as I recall from history was that maybe 3 days and then it would all be over. But sorry Brits...it did not work out as you wanted and Israel still exists. And to this day you still have not gotten over the fact that they threw you out of their land...yes their land. Now you come up with any reason to get back at them. Revenge does not look pretty on a country that prides itself on "good manners"

Never defend yourself unless you see the evidence first. Or as the commercial said "Where's the beef?" i am a simple man which means i can not be confused by those who try to deceive me. They are always too complicated for me! regards awj

The UK's hit teams may masquerade as journalists, writers, artists and an infinite numbers of NGOs. They don't need to forge somebody else passports. True, israelis don't have this luxury as they, by difference with UK, operate only against their enemies in countries with which they don't have diplomatic relations. UK have to react, probably expelling some low ranking diplomat which might or not be a secret service agent ; it will be replaced anyway in a few days. So contrary to the beautiful, high moral ground standing of souls expressing themselves here, killing an enemy is a normal and an important task of every country ( maybe except Costa Rica and the likes ); the US is probably the champion in this, with the UK not so distant behind. The only problem is eventually the professionalism of this operation and here of course, every opinion and/or feelings are welcome.

It could have been Israeli Military Intelligence and not Mossad, hence the fact that Netanyahu can give plausible deniability. There has been a full police investigation into the cloning of the passports which has pointed the finger at Israel being behind it. I presume you are actively lobbying the Irish Government not to follow Britain's lead?

So being Australian, how do you feel about a foreign government endangering your fellow citizens by cloning their passports? Or is it OK because it's Israel?

Did you write the statmement that Mr Milliband is about to read out in Parliament? Go read the report in The Daily Telegraph. Then watch the report on Sky where an Israeli spokesperson has stated that Israel is considering expelling a British Diplomat. However, I may have overestimated what Britain's response would be. It is actually a good way of getting published in Haaretz as it sparks debate. But I remember you telling me that absolutely nothing would be done, and that I should shut up as nobody was bothered about the passports being cloned. So we were both wrong. Personally I would have preferred that Britain vetoed sanctions on Iran for a couple of months to get the United states notice to what Israel had done, and link it with a settlement freeze in Jerusalem in return to not vetoing sanctions. Which of course would cause the collapse of the Israeli coalition who Ok'd the use of the British Passports. But it is all very entertaining.

If Shalit will be killed his assassins now know that they will be no place for them on earth where to hide. All the countries "involved" including Dubai should avoid all the noise. After all the "victim" was a terrible guy.

The Dubai police chief said that he is "near certain was a hit by Israel's Mossad spy agency." So he is not CERTAIN only NEAR CERTAIN. I was wondering when this story would come up again. I thought for sure when the police had REAL PROOF of who did the killing that they would break the story. But all this is...is the same as last month. Nothing new at all. Still no proof and only speculation. Meanwhile the fact that they nabbed a couple of Palestinians and two others ran back to Iran mean nothing ?? In the meantime you Israeli bashers are on a high today because of this continuous wishy washy police work. In the old American west this was referred to as "hang em high" ...who cares if he did it or not.

"Why would he want to make aliyah to Israel. He has freedom of thought and religion, freedom to travel on a British Passport, a free health service at the point of use, state benefits" As an Israeli citizen he would be entitled to all of the above and a better quality of life than the UK. So why wouldn't he?

It seems hard to know which is worse, to kill a murderer, or to copy or steal passports? To believe that only Israel uses forged passports for covert operations is naive. Virtually any nation, in the pursuit of its national interests, must use illegal means sometimes. Is it just, fair, or legal; who knows?

welcome. But before you go---put up a credible defence for Israel,s crimes---one of which, is your criminal spy org murdering someone with out a trial and using passports and endangering the lives of "Irish Citizens". Just for once, stick to the issue--instead of hiding behind this web site to insult your guests. But as you said--you are a simple man. Slan agut.

One has only to remember Clement Atlee's FM, Ernest Bevin - a visceral Jew-hater, and so inept in his post as to make Avigdor Lieberman look like George Marshall. Churchill, Eden, and Thatcher, all Conservative PMs, all were friends of the Jews and of Israel. I do not yet know how my ballot shall be marked in this election year, save only that it shall not be given to Labour. MV

What Israeli would desire better trade relations with such friends?

why dont you focus on the scandal in your own country with the church and the police colluding to cover up some nasty liltle church business... whoever did mabhouh was more than fully justified.

what it will do dopey is make it much harder for mi5 and mi6 to receive cooperation and information from israel. then all the covert services world wide had better watch out for perfidious albion in the future when they are doing their usual dodgy activities !

A normal government caught out like this woukld take its punishment like a man and mumble under its breath. But Israel's got Lieberman and Ayalon in charge! Should be funny!

....too much, the Labor governement has no interest in a deep row with Israel with elections looming there in only 2 months, apart from the fact, that relations between Israel and the UK haven't been that great before anyway (with the UK coming out the most forceful in Europe against Israels settlement policies). However, it will definitely be more difficult for Mossad to operate in Great Britain (and other European countries) in the future, visitors from Israel can expect a much more thorough scrutiny, if they wanna visit the United Kingdom etc, than there used to be before..... With Australia, till recently a very loyal ally of Israel, things look a bit differently: There the whole "Dubai scandal" has indeed shattered the relations between the 2 countries, and massively undermined Isreals trustworthyness there, both when it comes to the governement in Canberra and the Australian public. It will most definitely take a while,till those wounds can heal again.

Israel has no regard for other nations except for how they can be used by Israel. To have the ever clumsy Mossad stealing identities, obtaining fraudulent credit, and conducting criminal activities, victimizing the people of nations friendly to Israel tells us a lot about Israel. It doesn't tell us anything that surprises us though.

I cannot wait for your reaction when Paul Rudd does the same thing tomorrow for you later today for me. Surely you should be spending time averting this course of action by Mr Rudd, if you do in fact live in Australia. Funny that you are now resorting to personal slander after totally losing your argument. I accept your apology when you accused me of being stupid, and then went on to confidentaly declare that no action would be taken over this particular scandal. What was the bet, swimming in the Swan river naked at dinnertime?

in London ? Moscow didn't even want to cooperate with England in investigation of murder of a Putin critic.

Maybe the British passport were cloned by MI-5, 6, or 7 for Israel??

Why are Israelis murdering Hamas officials at a time when Hamas is observing a cease fire? If this had happened during the Gaza War, when there was actually a shooting war going on, I would understand, but why now? Is Israel trying to provoke Hamas so that they'll have an excuse to avoid peace?

Well Chris you kept telling us that first there would be airstrikes on Dimona and then that Britain would break of diplomatic relations. In fact all that has happened is a token show by Miliband that they have done something because they had to. One diplomat is the utmost lowest level of action the UK could take. If they were truly trying to do this out of anger and not show it would have been 5 or 6 and or the ambassador. Plus the UK will not say this is anything to do with the hit in Dubai but rather for the cloning of passports. Sorry Chris but Israel has got no issues here.

Why would he want to make aliyah to Israel. He has freedom of thought and religion, freedom to travel on a British Passport, a free health service at the point of use, state benefits. Would you move to israel if you had to give up all those things. Although between you and me I reckon Rich does live in Israel ahd he thinks that by pretending to live in britain he somehow is able to negate things like what has happened today. He told me nothing was going to happen by the way. Which is why I am finding today very entertaining. Looks like Israel is going to expel the british military Attache in response, so this could get very entertaining, and work towards irrevocably damaging ties with the UK at a time israel is begging for enhanced ties with the EU. Surprised Rudd hasn't made a similar move, I expect Ireland to do so later today.

Perfidious Albion--total hypocrites to the nth +1 degree!!

If Dubai and other Arab States had extradition treaties with each other and Israel, these types of events would probably not happen. If he went to the EU in his own name, he would probably have been arrested and removed from play for a long time. He was a murder by any "moral" code, and probably, legal code. He may well have been "setup" by his masters in Hamas for cheating them?

Israel's image was already drowning the world over, now Mossad's image is in tatters and an israeli diplomat is being expelled from Europe. This whole operation is a disaster and was planned carelessly.

some of u actually think that killing a terrorist is an act of terror? Wow! And some of youc ontinue to declare that ISrael is more of a threat to the world than Iran, wow! It never, ever ceases to amaze me how blind and ignorant peoeple can be. It is in the best interest of the UK to start ridding itself of this pro-muslim attitude. We all know the most common name for newborn males thereis Mohammed, right? Godd Bye England! Winston Churchil is turning in his grave, sickened by what is happening!

What the United Kingdom objects to is the cloning of british Passports to do the deed. Why are Israelis and Israel firsters finding this so hard to accept. It is the Passport cloning that is the issue not the murder. Then again I was being told by those who are now complaining about a diplomat being expelled that there would not be any consequences and I was told nobody cares about the cloning of passports. Well it appears that someone was wrong.

Israel defends its citizens by these actions, made necessary by terrorists who much of the rest of the world coddles and even protects. Dubai is a haven for these animals, allowing them to plot the murders of innocents. Does the US do any different in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? All this mock outrage at Israel is a farce.

crying poor innocent(by ommission) Arabs facing terrible Israelis. Why aren't you amongst those wonderful,peace loving ,non racist,honest as the day is long Palestinians.? Not much to do in Oxford during working hours?

The best retaliation by Israel would be to ban Tony Blair and his associates from any territory controlled by Israel

But you are free to start a hunger strike

Surely you could see I was joking. Because of my Muslim name you assumed I actually care about what happens in the Middle-East. I don't care at all. So I am not sure why you went on a tirade about Islam, I'm not religious either. I don't care about Hamas or this guy who got assassinated. As for the assassination, surely you can see the joke in sending 29 people to kill one man. If you can't see the funny side you are taking life too seriously. As for the Muslim terrorists, they are a minority and have little to no support by Muslims worldwide. Just chill-out. Also, surely you can see the desperation in copying your own citizen's passports to get into another country.

Holding a passport for 20 minutes does not constitute proof that Israel forged them. So what, If there is a problem at the airport they hold your passport while they sort it out, that's the way it happens.... everywhere.

Agree! Can use mine as well!

i say that israel should recall the ambasador.the only country that really cares about israel is americaand dont tell me that MI5 have not done the same thing..

If Dubai and other Arab States had extradition treaties with each other and Israel, these types of events would probably not happen. If he went to the EU is his own name, he would probably have been arrested and removed from play for a long time. He was a murder by any "moral" code, and probably, legal code. He may well have been "setup" by his masters in Hamas for cheating them?

Huh ! Taking diplomatic action without proof. How low British law has sunk. I thought some Jordanians were actually arrested, for this. Threaten the Jordanian diplomats or their King, now that makes sense.

"I`m sick of these UK numskulls who use our medical, internet, and other technologies on the one hand and then try to turn us into pariahs with the other." One of the funniest things on this website is seeing bitter Zionists accusing the world of accepting Israeli goods and then criticising Israel. It's like you think you give them to us for free or something. We PAY for them. You couldn't develop those goods and services without PAYING customers like us, and you do it for profit, not to help us. That's fine, nothing wrong with that, but do you see me saying 'How dare that Robert numskull call us numskulls while he's using British inventions like radio and television and the internet and the English language etc. etc.?'

Israel should kick out the British Diplomat in charge of their security affairs in Israel. One is only guilty when one is found guilty.Surely the Brits know this.

Does interpol arrest without evidence.?

If you're so horrified with today's Britain there's a warm welcome awaiting you in the land of Lieberman, Shas and Bibi. Actually, come to think of it, I can see why you're staying.

What a travesty. We know that most of not all of the alleged British subjects whose names were used by Dubai are ALSO Israeli nationals (i.e., they?re dual nationals). Any dual national (Israeli plus a foreign passport) knows that entry into Israel is done by using the Israeli passport ONLY. You do not show the foreign passport. You can keep it in your pocket or your brief case or against your heart or ANYWHERE. The immigration official receives and sees the Israeli passport ONLY. So how does he get his hands on the foreign passport?

Whether they are used to board airliners to commit mass murder,for suicide bombers to travel or trips to Pakistan to train in terror for global jihad. Some just come to Britain to be radicalised.

The real problem is not when a passport is forged to eliminate a terrorist, but when a terrorist uses a forged passport to carry out his miserable job! For years and years arab terrorists used to travel with faked id docs and none complained openly...

simply highlights what a world we live in.... i hope israel realises how spineless uk has become.

So, Robert, you want to boycott the UK? Hahahahahahahahahaha Please do, Israel. It would be be the funniest thing in decades.

You have contributed the most intelligent answer on this page, I've nothing more to add to what you have said. This is one of the most flawed intelligence agency operations in history, Mossads reputation is in tatters, and it's own governments inability to take action is deplorable.

Britain is the most hypocrite State and and goverment from all, and this since centuries.

Absolutely true. All governments involved are hoping that this affair will disappear. Those folk down in Dubai, have little to go on. Except some CCTV footage. I wonder how many countries were actually involved. Then of course, we must not forget those two, that boarded a ship for Iran. No proof, only circumstantial finger pointing. Its all about damage control. Somebody has to take the blame. Have a nice day.

Dear sam eliminating this terrorist should be welcomed by the whole world. You complain about the carbon being spent to achieve this. Look around at all the headlines of terror in the world. It is your brotherly arabs that are polluting the world with violence and destruction. If islam had just a bit of toleration then maybe they would let the jews have their tiny sliver of holy land to live in peace. But no you muslims do not let anyone anywhere live in peace not even your fellow shi'ites or sunnis. Look in the mirror islam is the polluter of carbon. mabhouh did not deserve to breathe air nor see the preciousness of daylight.

All you Monday morning quarterbacks have forgotten one of the most important facts about this case, no one has been able to prove it was Israel. The Dubai police cheif himself said that they can't prove it was Israel but all fingers point in that direction. Well with a response like that it must be true. This was one bad dude that has spent more time in Arab jails than in an Israeli one and I for one will not shed a tear for him. His life was dedicated to killing Israelis and Jews and therefore does not deserve all the wasted ink on the stories. Where is all the outrage for the deaths of innocents... I forgot it's not in your interest to be honest, any chance to bash Israel

Then again the unexpected is becoming more the norm these days.

The British government is just going through the motions to satisfy terrorist sympathisers like you. You haven't got a clue about some of the amazing wet jobs your agencies have executed have you? How you as a US citizen can side with Hamas is beyond me but I suspect you are a recent immigrant.

Israel is not so stupid as to choose people living in Israel when it wants to copy passports.

This is not clear at all. Why is Israel blamed if the subject passports were copied when British passports were taken away (for copying, perhaps) for 20 minutes when British subjects "passed through airports on the way to Israel"? It does not seem logical to blame Israel when the passports are alleged to have been copied in any country BUT Israel?

Are you also as concerned about matters occuring a little closer to home?

The proof most probably came from a criminal investigation by the Serious Organised Crimes Agency. Who must have dug up sufficient evidence linking Israel with the cloning of the passports that British politicians couldn't sweep it under the carpet. Israel's major worry now (elections here likely the diplomat will be returned in a couple of months) is if Dubai requests the findings of that investigation and uses it as a basis for issuing arrest warrants against various Israelis both in government and those seen in Dubai committing murder. I expect Australia, Ireland, France and Germany to follow Britain's lead. Then I suppose attention will turn to Bulgaria where two Israeli aircraft were seen in Bulgarian airspace whilst a Syrian was murdered under the guise of diplomatic flights. I wonder if all this murdering people will turn out to be worth it in the long term. The planes flew through Turkish airspace BtW. They might break off diplomatic relations completely.

This explusion is just part of a procedure. Israeli spy agency has been naughty, and been caught. But UK government doesn't care that some terroist got wasted, only that the forged passports were used. They need to do something, so kick out a few diplomats and move on. Behind the scenes, both governments are just hoping it all goes away.

It's not like Israel has so many friends in the world that they can afford to piss of the few who are genuine in their support. It seems there's some kind of self destruct button in play here, perhaps with a big BIBI on it. He's not half as smart as he thinks he is

There's a cloud forming over the AIPAC conference in DC thanks to the UK. I hope President Obama remains firm on demanding a halt to illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem too. From now on Mossad agents will have to forge passports of poor countries in Africa. Good luck with faking Afrikaan accents on the next mob hit.

...and Israeli should cease sharing info with MI6...I'm sick of these UK numskulls who use our medical, internet, and other technologies on the one hand and then try to turn us into pariahs with the other.

Israel never admitted that it carried out the action. But the U.K has drawn it't own conclusion. Taking in account the eminent person who was killed it is understandable that the foreign office is so offended. This office was forever anti Israel. For this reason also no Royal family member visited Israel ever.WHILE MANY HUMAN LOVING LEADERS WERE INVITED FOR A ROYAL WELCOME..

Are your jealous.

As an Arab I am outraged. Do you know what the carbon footprint is to send 29 people to assassinate one man is ? There is the carbon from the Jet fuel, then the air-conditioning to keep them cool in their Dubai rooms, all the fuel consumed by taxis to move them around Dubai hotels to hide their tracks. Israel is screwing up the environment with their dodgy actions.

And maybe Israel should apply the innocent until proven guilty to adage to all the palestinians held without chargs in israeli jails

But don't they look at both passports when you check in or out? Sometimes they take them away. to check with someone else. Or maybe that is only for people who whave Palestinian connections?

...this for a moment (and in the broader context): If all this had taken place a year or so ago (before this, that, and whatever), would what is reported to be about to happen--have happened?

"I thought england was democratic and law worthy. it has not been proven that Israel did the hit."paul They refused to assert their innocence. Nolo contendre--perhaps.

My British passport is often scrutinised by Israeli officials when I enter and leave. I shall make sure I note the time and details of whoever takes it in future!

So sue the UK for defamation, and we will make public the results of the Serious Organised Crimes investigation into the matter.

I don't know about any SAS assassinations, but if you do, feel free to seek arrests. The killings in Gibraltar were of an IRA Active Service Unit on a mission to plant a huge car bomb, and there was an extensive investigation, but again if you feel it wasn't thorough enough, feel free to seek arrests.

France, Ireland, Australia and germany will follow suite shortly.

One dead terrorist and there's an expulsion. Ridiculous.

Those who kills Jews are not immune from punishment. One way another, justice had been occured. I suggest to everybody not to dare to kill Jews. At the end justice would prevail. Aby

I kept being told that I was living in cloud cuckoo land. However as it is now accepted that Israel was behind the murder in Dubai, that will mean after his coalition collapses in the coming days we won't be seeing Netanyahu anymore, or the odious toad in charge of Mossad, and probably Lieberman as well. The Shores of the Kinnerett are gooing to be very crowded during holiday season. Happy days.