Israel embassy sets U.K. a-Twitter over 'second Dubai hit'

Israel dressed their assassins as tennis players. Which means that all Israeli athletes are now to be assumed to be Mossad assassins. All Israeli athletes are at risk now. Congrats. The terrorists have won.

Russians killed one of your own citizens with a highly toxic radioactive material, potentially endangering the lives of hundreds of British citizens? You were nowhere! Where have you been all these years while your troops continue to kill civilians both in Iraq and Afghanistan? Nowhere. Where are you now by your twisted and perverted standards in the moral geography of the World? You do not follow the true moral north but the directions shown in your own personal compass, distorted by antisemitic disguised as anti Israeli immorality. You cannot swallow the idea of strong (arrogant???) Jews protecting themselves, using whatever means necessary in the light of the appalling behavior of the Int'l community waking every day to the sounds of a Country threatening to destroy Israel. Take a walk at Sheffield Park, beautiful day. Maybe the striking beauty of nature will give you some hints about morality. In the meantime, be a gentleman and cope with your own desperation, w/o rantings.

said for days long that none of your prophesies come true. Who are you, that you are going to report to Foreign Office, and who is going to consider you in the Foreign Office? Your country does not your reports. You are saying and you are beliving what you've said. A poor preJewish postChrist guy that has hate to Jews and spewing his hatred in this forums. For days you are spewing your hatred and illusions that UK and the world would downgrade the diplomatic relations and kick out Mossad out of the UK. What has happend? Just NOTHING. You and I are here in this forums. I bet anything whatever you want %99 that there will be no downgradation in the relations. Aby Youre beatiful when you've got blue. Aby

thanks for uniting all muslims against israel...you did all muslims a service. Ayalon and nethanyahu and lieberman your just digging yourselfs a grave you could have stopped the settlements and showed even a fake face for peace like you always did... zionists wont even last 100 years this is the words of golda meir... and guess what its starting to look that way

While there is no way to know if you are really in England, no one who lives in England should talk about perfidy and assassinations. The English are the people who brought us expulsion of the Jews in the Middles Ages, invented concentration camps and raped and pillaged the world. Oh yes, and the only thing that Israeli and Palestinian historians agree upon is that the British made a hash of things while they were in "the Levant." So please, clean up your own house, get the hell out of Northern Ireland, give the Scottish and the Welsh the independence they crave and then come and talk to us, ok Jack?

and certainly not very smart...a-DUH!

so, apparently, a couple of overweight tennis-costumed bearded mafiosi are giving real tennis a bad name. maybe the mossad should have hired peer to carry out the deed, which she no doubt could have done, without needing 15 accomplices to murder one unarmed, unguarded man. OTOH, maye peer should sue the israeli embassy, which seems as hapless as it's country's hit-men, for giving Tennis a bad name. Or for bringing her bad luck. Why, she could have the tournament if not for the distraction! Yet, another thought - I trust it wasn't Israel's somewhat lackluster tennis assoc. that helped dress the murderers with appropriate garb. At the very least, they should have encouraged them to actually swing a racket and get on a treadmill, so as to look the part. Still, from the pictures of the mossad boss - who even looks the part of a Don, it appears that ship-shape is not a priority....godfather indeed. congrats israel for making it clear to olehs that their passport details could be farmed.

Although Israel is the hands down leader in this "club"! What a pathetic excuse for murder! PEACE EVER?

I thought your Prophet Moses presented the ten commandments to his people and one of the commandments is Thou Shall Kill. It seems you are one of the assassins.

by your oh so vocal outrage. You seem to embody the best of the British spirit: self-righteous indignation and moral hypocrisy!

The Uk assasinated IRA gunmen in Gibraltar years ago. As far back as bibical times assassination by outsiders was an accepted fact of life. What is new. the man murdered was himself an admitted murderer. Can we return to the real world

"EVERY government carries out assasinations!" - Michelle Prove it. I have no problem with the guy getting whacked. But your argument is absurd. Either it is absurd, or the vast majority of government intelligence agencies are far more competent at assassination than Mossad. The operation was so ridden with fingerprints and dropped clues that my first thought pondered if it was a false-flag operation intended to saddle Israel with the blame. Eventually the evidence piled up to the point where it was impossible to continue with that line of thought. The number of governments caught repeatedly engaging in international assassinations is pretty small Michelle. The real concern should be who was responsible for the Keystone Cops performance in Dubai, and who authorized it. For the Mossad to whack the guy is no problem with me. That they botch the job so totally should be a concern to every Israeli.

Arrogance is a flaw in the USA psyche. Spelling simple words seems to be yours. What Israel is doing is keeping you safe. Believe it or not.

Chris & Flora, both find Israel arrogant! That word was also used repeatedly by Hitler and others to describe Jews. Living their lives in Europe was arragant, commiting the same sins as their neighbors, be it in business, labor, politics was arrogant. Now these freaks, who spend their time monitoring Israeli newspapers, totally ignoring the sins of terrorism and murder, still see Jewish arrogance- interesting!

linctus , as a phny englishman and before letting off steam why not follow the doings in 300 years of british imperial history !

We are talking about a criminal who is responsible for murdering civilians. He got what he deserved. Israel should go after as manay as possible anywhere they may be. Somehow the world is always outraged when Jews defend themselves. Rememeber a thug died nohing else.

Your private sentiments are both valid. Michelle, you are a bit more vocal (60+ words) today. Flora, you get to have your peace tomorrow.

I can understand individuals in Israel being upset to learn that their identities had been expropriated, but from another perspective, can the British, American or French govts. claim that their intelligence services have never used fake foreign passports??? What hypocrisy!

Israelis are (apparently) obsessed with tennis, yet tennis pays much less than golf. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/tiger_woods_announces_return_to

As I followed you a long time I still don't understand why you write here. With this kind of hate to Israel you could have a much bigger places to write. In the arab press you could have more space. Maybe you could tell us where do you write. I wpuld be delighted to follpw your path of thinking, Because there is much of thing to criticize in Israel but probably a lot to criticize over there too. I can't imagine that you do not recognize that. What a lose for your brothers over there to miss you because you ar so busy here. And dont forget to give us a tip when you write for the free press over there so we can follow you. Arrivederci!

rhetoric. It is delicious to see an Israeli-hater such as yourself in such stupor.

Why the fuss from Britain about this? Maybe it's not real fuss, but merely making a noise because that's what is expected? For the UK to stay largely supportive of Israel as it bombed civilians to smithereens in Lebanon and Gaza in recent years, yet make a fuss about this incident shows you what a muddle their heads are in.

Chris, forget to take your prozac today? or maybe your shrink may need to increase your dosage. Your a dillusional fool. I think the foreign office should be more concerned with a loon like you in their midst not the mossad or Israel.

When Chris is not boiling in hot water than he sends something somewhere. I send my letters to Georg Brown for sure. But I send them with elegance not with arrogance. I would be delighted to know who pays you for the quality of your comments. Little more tee maybe ? You are chained at the Haaretz like a slave. A little fresh air would make you feel much better-think about your heart my boy. You have only one.

This story is a bit of fluff. Not a matter of monumental import. It is not, however, without some enlightenment. It shows a lack of common sense upon the part of the sender as well as bad taste. It is one in a series of Ministry of Foreign Affairs gaffs in recent weeks. It also discredits the accomplishment of a fine tennis player and the hospitality of the Arab nation which has allowed him to compete. Another self-inflicted wound by a thoughtless, reckless government.

Let us learn from this - even the arrogance of the German leaders at the time led to the destruction - arrogance before the fall -

It is not the assassination. It is the use of forged passports using identities of British subjects which is the issue. Why are Israelis and Israel firsters finding it so hard to get their heads round this concept?

I think its great. Israel will hasten its own isolation and shunning

we are all aware of that. each person should fight for justice and democracy in his/her own country, where they might HOPE at least to achieve some improvement to the system. however, i don't know anyone in israel who thinks we should discontinue assassinations like this one - we should just work harder not to get caught. after all, EVERYONE ELSE is doing it!

Erastus CoupeDeVille... I couldn't have put it better myself.... I have been there and done it, Most unfortunatly

that would be humour would it old boy?

This is a pathetic, childish reaction at a time when Israeli citizens are in danger due to identity theft.

but CL also needs to find a sense of proportion.

the tweet looks as if it was tweeted by Ayalon or even by Lieberman himself, could not have been more stupid

people are still dying in Haiti, in Darfur there are a rape every 27 seconds in South Africa but the 'assassination" of a terrorists is the main story.......sad!

I hope their extended families are being protected from any retribution. As for the affected individuals, enjoy your stay in your new homeland... try to get a new identity because your credit rating is probably swirling in the toilet, your life insurance policy is cancelled and you don't want to spend the rest of your life locked up in a levantine backwater.

We all had a good laugh, this tweet was the funniest ever. what's going on with you Lind-waste-our-time, presumably you've been too long in Beirut and lost your Britisch sense of humor over there.

You got a close relationship with the FO then Chris. I'm sure they would be lost without you passing them on critical information. You sure your not the editor if The Guardian!!

A terrorist arms smuggler was in dubai - not for tennis - but for arms acquisition. He was killed by who knows who. No cilillians were hurt. There is no question that he was a top Hamas arms smuggler - noone has questioned that. So what's all the fuss. America killed 12 people in Pakisatan with a drone a few days ago, some civillians - and none said a thing. why don't you all shut up including you Linth-twat!

I have sent this report to a government official in the Foreign Office. The sooner we downgrade relations to consular level and kick Mossad out of the UK the better