Top EU official: Dubai hit may harm ties with Israel

"Presumably the whole continent," was not sarcastic. This true blue Jew visits hate and vitriol upon today's entire European continent, that was occupied by Germany during the period he rants about. Are you in this to defend such irrational, hate-mongering logic? Presumably yes, because your first comment is, "Germany wasn't the only country with death camps;" whatever the point of that is. Does that mean you agree Europe should not threaten Israel because death camps existed outside Germany as well? If that's typical Jewish logic, I would really, really hate to be a Palestinian. The US and Europe would not be severely affected, if at all, by a boycott of Israel. Israel would not survive.The main trading partners of Israel are the US, the EU and Asia. Foreign trade comprises 80 percent of Israels GDP. 49% of Israel's imports and 33% of its exports are with Europe. Israel imports computers from the US. It does not import medicines from Israel. The true blue Jew is a hate monger.

Information can be obtained in several ways, including the Internet Bribes to someone in a Passport Office to generate a Duplicate, based on claims of lost passports Nobody would be foolish enough to loan his Passport since it would lead directly back to the lender Or the Passport control in Dubai wasn't too observant and was unable to detect a good counterfeit You may be certain that it's a lot easier to countefeit a passport than it is to counterfeit money

The problem for forging old-style passports is steganography. You want the data to be correct. If somebody checks the data and finds that there is no such person, that's a great big flaming arrow pointed at the spy. So start with a real passport from a real person, but that only takes a couple of minutes. It takes time with the original document so your copy can match details that look unimportant. You don't want a forged passport that looks like a generic passport with mostly correct data and the picture changed. You want a forged passport that looks just like the original with correct data and the picture changed. If there is a code hidden in things that don't look important, there's a chance that somebody who knows the code will inspect the passport. Mossad surely would copy a passport and not doctor the original. But they need the original to copy. Hamas probably uses cheaper forged passports.

Several countries, N. Korea & Iran, as examples have extensive currency forging capabilites, passports are easy to fabricate since the same skills are required Surely you've noticed all the ads of TV soliciting customers to protect their I.D.'s by subscribing to their services Hackers have entered supposedly secure financial websites mining millions of individual personal data Asking others to "Loan" their passports would only result in the information being leaked to one and all, loose lips sink ships, and gabbing too much would have made the plans known to one and all

"Don`t ever threaten us Jews with "consequences". Those consequences will be on you, and your near and dear ones. We will never forget, NEVER AGAIN. We shall make you pay unless you all repent and repay, especially Britain, France, who blocked Jews from ESCAPING the Nazis and the Collaborating French" You are threatening other nations with war? Terrorism? "To the Europe`s Jews: Always carry a weapon and know how to use it at the mere appearance of a threat to you or another Jew." Now you are advising european jews to all become terrorists. Please get therapy. It may not be too late.

People are saying that Israel could not have copied the passports because they never ever ask for a second passport at an Israeli airport. That's silly. They only need a few hundred fakes, so they would only need to ask for second passports a few hundred times, total, if they wanted to get them that way. They could for that matter ask a limited number of people to loan them their foreign passports for patriotic reasons. After it became an international controversy would the volunteers admit it? Well yes, a couple did before they realised what was going on. That's a silly reason to say Israel could not have done it, a silly reason that no sensible person would accept. If there is proof that Mossad did it, the people with the proof would be irresponsible to release it to the media. They need to save it for possible trials etc. That so many government officials of so many nations are behaving as if they have proof is a bad sign, but not definitive. They could all just be antisemitic.

I wouldn't know what to tell the shrink except I've been recommended by Ben Jabo. So, what's the answer? Did the information which you had available convince you the SDECE had been caught in an assassination attempt, or not? If youre stuck for an answer, you can draw upon one of the following charges you leveled at me during our exchange about the Liberty. They seem to be necessary for you to express yourself. flatulent anti-semite emit hot air gutless dense deluded utterer of nonsense with mental problem half-wit loon It's difficult to express hatred by simply asking someone what they base their statement on. You'll have to show me how, you have the practice of the use of nasty pejoratives down to an art.

I'm just surprised how stupid Mossad is, to carry out an operation like this and thinking they wouldnt get caught? They have crossed all the boundaries of decency and think they can get away with whatever they want. Kudos to the EU for stepping up and demanding explanations.

First, Germany wasn't the only country with death camps, now was it? After the war when Jews began go back home, in Poland for instance they were at times murdered by the Polish people as well as in other European countries. So your sarcastic remark "(presumably the whole continent)" was in fact true to an extent. Regarding boycotts etc. to attack Israel I'll guess you will need to put down your computer and cellphone since both are integrated with Israeli technology. Since 1/3 of all U.S. household have Israeli medication in their house, next time your sick be sure to check the medicine that will get you healthy isn't Israeli and if it is don't use it. Good Luck!

You're so filled with hatred!!!

That website you highlight and the comments by the Guinea communications minister, convinces you that SDECE, the French overseas intelligence service, was caught in an assassination attempt? It seems to me you are grasping for straws, and the straw is far, far away. Shades of the N.Korean army.

You appear to be violently stuck in an intellectual vacuum of hate and vitriol, unable to grasp the changing laws, mores, cultures, new history, geography, and population transformations that have evolved over the last 65 years. You challenge Europe (presumably the whole continent) not to threaten Israel because of what took place from 65 to 72 years ago in German occupied Europe. Would you feel better if Israel were to be threatened by South America, or SE Asia? "Don't threaten us Jews with consequences." If your dreams come true and Israel continues to violate international law, expresses disdain for the rest of the world, ignores the community of nations, doing whatever it wishes, you Jews will witness consequences that flow spontaneously. There will be international boycotts, divestments and sanctions, leaving Israel completely isolated. Israel would not survive: no imports, no exports, no int'l loans, no allies and no future. Is that your goal? If not, then stop the hate mongering

Contrary to your statement, EU members are complicit in assassinations and have been caught For reference http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/3143978/France-complicit-in-assassination-attempt The French ambassador was stopped and his diplomatic car searched, as troops loyal to Guinea's ruling junta continued a manhunt for the renegade soldier who shot and wounded their leader. The search of a diplomatic car is a violation of international law and shows how uncontrolled the Guinean military has become following the assassination attempt on their leader, who was evacuated overseas for emergency treatment last week, said a diplomat. Guinea's communications minister said he could not comment on the search of the ambassador's car, but accused the French secret service of "being complicit in the assassination attempt." He said that "only France knows where to find" Lt Abubakar "Toumba" Diakite, the former head of the presidential guard who opened fire on Capt Moussa "Dadis" Camara last Thursday, wounding him in the head and forcing him to leave the country for emergency surgery in Morocco. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said the claims by Guinea's communications minister were "absurd rumours that I forcefully deny." A spokesman for the French ambassador in Conakry said that he had no comment about the search of the diplomat's car.

Israel claims to be always right, whatever that nation does, starting from even humiliating Palestinian children to launching war against emprisonned Gazans (killing 1400 people) and committing plain murder, thereby destroying the basics of an jewish, democratic and civilized state DAY BY DAY. For Europeans it is breathtaking to read all those postings defending Israels »right to act« however Israel wants to act or has been acting. Everybody who dares to critizise those actions is spitted on as an anti-semitic. Step by step, day by day, year by year Israel is undermining the good will of Europeans to help and to support Israel. It might be even more important that cheering crimes means to undermine the basics of that nation Israel. Help yourself, Israel.

This is another sign of terrorisom. Israeli think they re above the law, lawless thinking became culture to this country, as long as you do not respect law, you will be in trouble.

Chris Linthwaite asked me yesterday; So if the EU give Avigdor Lieberman the proof that you require tomorrow what would you expect the EU to do? I would have expected them to have disclosed their sources,given the proof to Lieberman and waited for him to study it and give a considered reply. But in the event of Lieberman just being presented with the same innuendo and insinuation from a hostile Dubai policeman,I should have expected him to tell them where to shove it.In the event,neither seems to have happened,so Chris Linthwaite must be disappointed and I'm a little disappointed. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

Well, Obama just signed a "finding" authorizing the assasination of American citizens overseas who are involved in terrorist planning or actions against the United States and its interests. NATO forces use drones to blow up enemy Taliban in Afghanistan, often times blowing up civilians (collateral damage). The mossad assasination was clean...a discreet bullet to the head inside a quiet hotel room..not civilians injured or killed..no collateral damage. It seems to me that mossad operations, if indeed it was mossad, are quite civilized, under the circumstances.

so what so they killed him for a good reason terrorists go to pakistan to the traningscamps and they used fake passport/name before so no1 does bark after this the media the world does miss the point here israel or mossad wont go out there kill folks just like that but what arabs/muslims do all the time lets not get started

so what so they killed him for a good reason terrorists go to pakistan to the traningscamps and they used fake passport/name before so no1 does bark after this the media the world does miss the point here israel or mossad wont go out there kill folks just like that but what arabs/muslims do all the time lets not get started

as anti-semitic as the EU can be (or, to clarify, some of its members), Israel and the Jews kind of let 'slide', the blatant cooperation some of these nations had with the nazi's during the Shoah. As such, the IDIOTS in the EU should not embarrass themselves by forcing us Jews to put such things on the table for them to 'remember' their past atrocities, esp since it is against our ethical grain. With NO evidence to claim, there SHOULD BE NO STRAIN IN RELATIONS! Israel will become a member of the EU one day, like it or not. Israel is BACK, majorly, in so many ways and is GOOD FOR THE WORLD AND THE WEST AND ESPECIALLY THE EU. The EU should know to be more sophisticated and NOT saber rattle with their friends. 'Nuff said.

Lets start to investigate who killed Hitler YMS

How about to say that the EC countrys killed the guy and the are all acusing Israel

If they do, you can bet they don't get caught.

Ayalon or Lieberman? Who would I most want to see as the next prime minister of Israel? Maybe BOTH. They could work together. It would sort of like tag team wrestling.

Since you feel Israel has the right to violate the law whenever it feels like it, would you agree other countries have the same right against Israel? If not, why not?

Again, instead of confronting an offense by Israel, you change the subject. What does that have to do with the possible violation of international law by Israel?

The only two individuals arrested in this matter are palastinians. the assasination was carried out in a very public way, loads of cctv footage, and to be frank done in a very amature way, Mossad is better than this, (at least since the Jordan debacle)and now you have the EU and its grandmother jumping up and down and blameing Israel for everything. who stands to gain?? i'll let you work it out for yourselves. answers back to this talkback :-))

Only if they forget, and dont care, that it was the Islamic Extremist who bombed, and burned France and Spain in many terrorist attacks. Iran is the incubator of many terrorist organizations, and where did the 9/11 terrorist come from? Countries around the world should take on the responsibility to stop these terrorist organizations from operating freely within their borders. They are nothing less than murderous criminal gangs trying to start wars between nations.

That all mass murderers and terrorists should be protected. And the ones who are incarcerated now should be let go.

I would hope that Hamas opens up a delegation in Brussels soon. In fact why not send all of Hamas to the EU where they can do some good?

Israel DID NOT get caught. Just because you say it ...does not make it so.

no wonder these spineless euros are facing possibility of serial sovereign insolvencies. You cannot preach morality when your foundations are built on lies and hypocrysies. who care what they say anyways. Donnnie Rumsfeld was right, they are irrelevant.

This toing and froing could go on forever. The evidence strongly implicates Mossad as the doer of the deed, but there is no proof positive and I doubt if there ever will be any proof positive. Perhaps then this saying sums up the situation best: "If it looks like sh_t, if it smells like sh_t, chances are it is sh_t."

Head over to jpost and read his blog - even uber-zionist Alan Dershowitz accepts that *if* Israel did this *then* it is a major crime under Dubai law, and the Dubai authorities have every right to seek the arrest of the perps. Mind you, if I read him right he is shit-scared that this might become Yet Another Incident where Israeli officials can't step foot outside of Israel without fearing arrest.... I suspect he is right to be worried....

Thousands upon thousands have been fabricated to allow easy access for Illegals to enter the UK Rahter odd, Brits posting here have no concern of how the illegals are harming the UK, too busy meddling in the affairs of Israel My fake passport into Britainby SUE REID, Daily Mail Last updated at 11:43 03 June 2006 Comments (13) Add to My Stories The fake passport obtained by the Daily Mail's Sue Reid The Daily Mail today exposes how our shambolic border controls act as an incentive for thousands of illegal immigrants to come to Britain. With frightening ease, foreign terrorists and criminals can enter this country using fake EU passports made to order in 48 hours at counterfeiting factories in North London. I discovered the staggering scale of the scandal when I bought three forged passports for £1,200 each from an African middleman named Jonathan. Handing over the money in cash with three pictures of myself taken at a supermarket photo-booth, I told him my height, age and the new name I wanted put on the documents. Two days later, the three fake passports ? Italian, French and Portuguese ? were delivered to me in a white envelope at a wine bar near King's Cross railway station. In order to test how easily they could be used to gain entry into Britain, I sent the Italian passport (number 354167F) by post to a friend's address in northern France where I planned to collect it and then come back into the country. I was copying the simple trick of thousands of illegal immigrants who wait at the French port of Calais hoping to smuggle themselves to Britain. They buy a bogus EU passport from London, which is then sent to a box number at one of the port's post offices for them to pick up a day or two later. I assumed that my bogus Italian document would be spotted by British immigration officials when I made my illegal journey across the Channel After all, the last Home Secretary ? Charles Clarke ? lost his Government post over the scandal of 1,023 foreign criminals being let out of our jails without being considered for deportation. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388912/My-fake-passport-Britain.html#ixzz0gDMQc0Nq

Concerning the thousands of forged passports that are being used for illegals to enter the UK My fake passport into Britainby SUE REID, Daily Mail Last updated at 11:43 03 June 2006 Comments (13) Add to My Stories The fake passport obtained by the Daily Mail's Sue Reid The Daily Mail today exposes how our shambolic border controls act as an incentive for thousands of illegal immigrants to come to Britain. With frightening ease, foreign terrorists and criminals can enter this country using fake EU passports made to order in 48 hours at counterfeiting factories in North London. I discovered the staggering scale of the scandal when I bought three forged passports for £1,200 each from an African middleman named Jonathan. Handing over the money in cash with three pictures of myself taken at a supermarket photo-booth, I told him my height, age and the new name I wanted put on the documents. Two days later, the three fake passports ? Italian, French and Portuguese ? were delivered to me in a white envelope at a wine bar near King's Cross railway station. In order to test how easily they could be used to gain entry into Britain, I sent the Italian passport (number 354167F) by post to a friend's address in northern France where I planned to collect it and then come back into the country. I was copying the simple trick of thousands of illegal immigrants who wait at the French port of Calais hoping to smuggle themselves to Britain. They buy a bogus EU passport from London, which is then sent to a box number at one of the port's post offices for them to pick up a day or two later. I assumed that my bogus Italian document would be spotted by British immigration officials when I made my illegal journey across the Channel After all, the last Home Secretary ? Charles Clarke ? lost his Government post over the scandal of 1,023 foreign criminals being let out of our jails without being considered for deportation. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-388912/My-fake-passport-Britain.html#ixzz0gDMQc0Nq

zf: "Mossad has the right to break the law & act imoral" Q: What stopped Mossad from sending its assassination squad to Dubai with Israeli passports, zf? At least that way it takes responsibility for its "rightfull" actions, and it does not put at risk the reputation of foreign passports, or the foreign nationals that possess them. Israel is a righteous nation - everyone here keeps telling me that - so why doesn't it act like it, rather than skulking around like it has something to hide?

Haaretz

Thanks for putting things in the right perspective!

lots of times when I say things that are REALLY nutty, those things seem to check out. Like if I was to say Achmadinejad has a dirty toilet or that he holds his shit really well; just watch the news next week! Something about it just may come out or turnip!

It is very funny how talkbackers here are STILL trying to deny Israel's involvement. Ridiculous. Everyone and their mother knows Israel was behind this. There is abundant proof out there. How can you continue to even deny?

My country - Germany ? has SPECIAL RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. It will be very interesting to see if these special relations will result in a condemnation of crimes committed by Israel by my government or if Germany will cheer those crimes.

If it was Israeli intelligence that eliminated this murdering terrorist from the face of the earth... kol hakavod to the Jewish State. If it was another intelligence agency then thank you and keep eliminating these terrorists and let the jew-hating, Israel bashing world cry over their dead terrorist.

Jews sans frontieres 27 July 2007 "Brown joins the Jewish National Fund" According to the Jewish Chronicle, as soon as Gordon Brown became PM, the president of the Jewish National Fund UK, sent him an invitation to become an honorary patron of the Jewish National Fund UK. He happily accepted. http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2007/07/brown-joins-jewish-national-fund.html

Usa is killing terorists in Afganistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and around the globe, where is the Fair and Balanced EU? When it comes to Israel EU startes bitching around. Stop playing games! A terorists was killed, GREAT JOB! Simply Mazal TOV.

So it is no more a normal PP, it is a diplomatic ones. so how the hell could an ordinary isreli agent obtain a british, german or Irish pasport for an agent carrying an israeli cityzenship and, as according to previous public information in the press, have a PP number copied from the original ordinary pasport. THIS EXTRA ORDINARY LOGIC ESCAPE ALL POSSIBLE IMAGINATION. THOSE WHO DID IT ARE EITHER COMPLETELY OUT OF THEIR MIND (THOSE WHO PRODUCED THIS INFORMATION) OR AXTRAORDINARY GENIOUSES TO BE ABLE TO CREATE SUCH AN INTERNATIONAL CONFUSION.

Can I say that in a talk back ?

Don't threaten us. Don't tread on us. Even if its 600 million of you vs 6 million of us we now can and we will take care of ourselves, we can yes we can. don't quote legalisms, you passed laws legitimizing disenfranchisement, arrest, deportation, concentration, gassing and burning of Jews. You made it legal. Don't ever threaten us Jews with "consequences". Those consequences will be on you, and your near and dear ones. We will never forget, NEVER AGAIN. We shall make you pay unless you all repent and repay, especially Britain, France, who blocked Jews from ESCAPING the Nazis and the Collaborating French To the Europe's Jews: Always carry a weapon and know how to use it at the mere appearance of a threat to you or another Jew. Only this way can you recover your self esteem Europe ripped out during the past 2000 years by intimidation, dispossession, rapine, murder and slavery. Sue these Arab loving Jew-hating back stabbers. Teach the true lessons from history and apply them.

Chris Linthwaite asks; So if the EU give Avigdor Lieberman the proof that you require tomorrow what would you expect the EU to do? I would expect the EU to disclose the sources of what they regard as evidence,give it to Mr Lieberman to consider and wait for his rely. If they just hand over the same so-called evidence based on innuendo and insinuation from a hostile source that we've been treated to for days,I'd expect Mr Lieberman to tell them where to stick it. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

Everyone is forgetting that al-Mabhouh was a terrorist and was wanted for murder and arms smuggling. He was not exactly an old innocent grandmother from Wisconsin that was assassinated in Dubai, that would warrant such an international investigation. Let us not forget Avi Sasportas and his brutal murder. I wonder if anybody really cares about al-Mabhouh or this is just another example of good old European antisemitism.

EU governments do what they have to, going through to motions to make it clear that they were not involved, in order to protect their citizens from harm. Calling this antisemitism devoids the term of any meaning except "Israel doesn't like it". Israel seems desperately trying to reduce the number of countries it has amicable relationship down to one (No US passports involved, it seems).

If anyone believes the MI5 or the CIA or the French security servioe have never used forged passports, they are deluded. It was however very foolish to use the names of British citizens living in Israel.

So if the EU give Avigdor Lieberman the proof that you require tomorrow what would you expect the EU to do?

We will probably show it to Avigdor (the nighclub bouncer) Lieberman tomorrow when he comes to Brussels. The interesting thing today is the media are reporting a deepening crisis with Israel. That is usually government led and even Haaretz is reporting it now. Lets see what tomorrow brings, it could be the nightclub bouncer will be given a list of allegations and be sent away to find answers to those allegations. I doubt ties will be cut tomorrow. It twill depend on Israel's answers to the questions given tomorrow. It really isn't a good idea to have the nightclub bouncer as Israel's point man tomorrow really isn't.

To Israel and blming throughout the World for something that may or may not of happen through Israel BEST BE PREPARED FOR A LOT OF LAW SUITES and possible sent to the Hague for stirring up a World Hatred Campaign Its so obvious that its of an Arab Flip Flop

If EU diplomats base their diplomacy on dubious accusations,innuendo and insinuation without a shred of real evidence,then EU and intelligence cannot be terms that sit comfortably together. By the way,I have just contacted my MEPs to tell them what I think of this and ask them to enquire as to the identity of this diplomat.I await their replies. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

The EU loves Israel when it makes unilateral concessions, when it's the hapless victim of Palestinian attacks and when it gives the EU the impression that it (the EU) really matters in the peace process. On the other hand, the EU gets peeved when Israel takes measures to defend itself such as eliminating a key player in a terrorist organization personally responsible for the deaths of Israeli servicemen and civilians. Better to be alive and rattle the Europeans a bit then to have the EU's limitless sympathy when innocent Israelis die.

Or more prosaically we don't get caught if we use them. If you get caught you get punished a bit like speeding in your car. We have all done it, some of us get caught, some of us don't. Israel got caught, as simple as that, and once caught governments have to react.

They're purer than the driven snow!

to support Mossad involvement in the Dubai hit, they must do so because until now, they have not supported their allegations with anything substantive other than highly prejudicial assumptions. Dubai chief police' statements against the Mossad are not true . The Mossad is not an institution style the ocean eleven business nor a CIS show . The medias reports against Israel and the Mossad are biased, malicious, false, and defamatory and cannot cover the Fatah-Hamas murderous rivaleries illustrative of the OIC-Arab League mafia .

The palestine terrorist was not registered with his real name, that's why the killers were undercover. Terrorist always complicate everything.

Superjew, keep it up. Hit these hypocritical posters where they hurt. Poke 'em in the eye and kick em in their nuts. These turds are career Jew haters and have developed proven technique to insinuate, undermine and erode the Jews' self esteem and force them to operate from the defensive. Jews need to develop thick skins, carry sharp knives, stick them in deep and twist. Go Superjew. Go go go...

The Austrian connection is a, excuse the pun, dead giveaway for Arab participation beyond just extras and supporting cast roles. Most of the Fatah boys all have multiple passports and Germany and Austria are standard hubs. Its also no simple coincidence that Muhammed Dahlen's name has popped up. What do the readers of talkback assume the company "belonging" to Dahlen in Dubai was all about? From Gaza to Dubai? Dahlen is CIA trained and used to run Gaza before pushed out by HAMAS in their bloody coup. See the pattern grasshopper? Dubai won't want to talk about the other passports since its quite common for Arabs to travel about with 6 or more different passports from various Arab countries. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh himself was traveling with a passport issued from one of the Eemirates (and a few more in his luggage). Dahlen too has a few passports in his drawer...

There are many people throughout the world who have dual nationality and hold two passports.There are Israelis who have British passports because they were born in Britain;nothing fishy about that. The decision to retain a British passport alongside an Israeli one is pragmatic. There are racist countries in this world who refuse entry to Jewish Israelis. At the moment I'm thinking that a better question would be why don't British Jews try to acquire an additional Israeli passport to give them the option of getting away from snide individuals like Keith T.? THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

So yet another unnamed official has decided to rattle sabres in the public forum. And the press deems fit to carry the story. Or unproven, and sometimes inaccurate, allegations are carried by the Telegraph and spread like fungus through the world press, without anyone taking the trouble to check the accuracy of the information. Whatever happened to the old journalistic rule of thumb that no story should be carried unless it was confirmed by three different, independent news sources?

...terrorist were unable to walk free in Dubai's streets and feel like at home this should never happen. And this top EU official opinions make me believe that the only countries who fight terrorism are USA and Israel. Death man was a terrorist.

Germany has a registration requirement, whereby all residents, nationals as well as foreigners, must register their address in Germany with the appropriate police office (Amt fuer oeffentliche Ordnung for German citizens, Auslaenderbehoerde for foreigners). Seems strange that in the post 9/11 world, the address information given on the passport application would not be checked. I often serve as a guarantor for passport applications and am contacted regularly by the passport office of my country to verify the accuracy of the information furnished by the applicant.

If this thing goes any further then the dude is in a Dubai dungeon spilling the beans on Iran. If it stops right here then he has a new idenity. Stop yer blab! The man is (fill in the blank). Dead ofcourse! Heh-heh-heh!

Why did Dubai agents kill Mabhouh and try to frame Mossad? THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

Let the sword of Gideon rock. All this debate about a cold blooded murder. Anyone seen any proof of any kind? All i saw were people walking around in a hotel. if they have cctv in the halls wouldn't we saw the people going to his room? And besides terrorists should be eliminated every chance we get

Kaska in Geneva, Switzerland wrote: "Thank god the civilised world has higher moral standards than Israel." Well, Mr Kaska, Israel has much, much higher moral standards than Hamas. Hamas don't have any. That's for sure. (I am not Jewish.)

2 things- mi6 used irish passports to go after the scum irish terrorists. US used french passports to go into occupied france. irish scum used british passports to take their bombs into UK..the dutch used german passports to go into nazi gemrmany. only when its jews do you people care...typical. by the way, nothing fishy about israelis having uk pssports...saudis do, iraninans do, americans do, french do, etc..etc... what a forum here...naked anti semitism...not an overused term here at all... have a great day!

I'm starting to get a bit bored with this.All I see is the same repetitions of unsubstantiated accusations against Mossad that are really just innuendo and insinuation based on anti-Israel hostility from a Dubai policeman. I do wish that he'd put out something substantial before I doze off. THREE CHEERS FOR ISRAEL!!!

He says it like it is. Keep it up, buddy. They hate reading it, but it's all true.

how did the occupied territories become occupied? what area specifically is occupied according to you? why was the palestine LIBERATION organization formed in 1964? to LIBERATE what? As you KNOW, there were no 'occupied' territories in 1964...curious...eh cummings? how do you feel about how the palestinians have gone about their goals? has their methodology been in accordance with your views on human rights and norms of civility? entebbe? munich? sbarro pizza? rockets? buses? all good by you? Israel offered the "occupied" land back, the arabs said no..3 times at khartoum...surely you know this is not about WB and gaza and SURELY you know the UN approved of israel in 1948...you do know mabhouh was running illegal weapons from iran in gaza to then use against israeli civilians, RIGHT? Do you hate jews that much that you are willing to overlook facts? this site, the posters, the authors, are all disgraceful. The EU is a farce..a bunch of hypocritical, lying jew hating scum

I do not see why Israelis should have British passports. There is something fishy about that.

It is not certain yet who is responsible for the Dubai hit but the evidence is mounting that it was Israel. It amazes me how many of Israel's supporters are saying that IF Israel did it that it was good thing and Israel has no apologies to make. The end justify the means seems to be the popular response. Everybody does it so why pick on Israel? What if in the future an Iranian hit team whacks an Israeli official, forges documents etc? Just how acceptable would that be?

good old european anti semitism is on the boil again...curious how this "unamed" source doesnt say one thing about mahbouh using 5 different passports, running ILLEGAL arms into gaza from iran...seems the EU is more interested in oil that doing the right thing...but this has been going on for the longest time... who hijacks planes? manufactures suicide vests? rams planes into buildings? throws crippled old men overboad from hijacked cruise lines? takes hostages to behead them on tv? bomb hotels? blow up trains? muslims. all of these ridiculous human rights transgressions are funded and supported but arab govts and what does the EU do? blame israel.. or is it just that they hate israel, hate jews,feel guilty for feeling guilty over their own complicity in the holocaust, and now, are turning a blind eye to what really is going on....it's easy to blame israel, far more difficult to blame themselves for enabling radical muslim behaviour.

Kudos to the mossad...IF they were responsible for the act of justice. Don't the niceties of the law shield the accused until proven guilty? The UAE might be "99% sure" that mossad is responsible, but it all boils down to speculation without proof. This is in contrast to the eliminated terrorist who confessed online to murdering two israeli soldiers. Terrorists and countries that harbor or support them can not flaunt the law on one hand and then seek to invoke its protection.

I am a European and am often thoroughly ashamed of it. Once again there are a lot of warped minds at work in Europe. Working together with the Arabs and issuing an international warrant for the arrest of the people who eliminated this Hamas mass murderer? They are out of their minds. The Brits threatening to discontinue cooperating with Israel on security issues? They will do so at their own peril. Israelis (if they are the ones who did it) are 6 times as clever as those Brits. The use of other nations' passports? What is so important about that? The skillful people who did this (whoever they are) deserve medals and our gratitude, not harassment. The world is a better place without this mass murderer.

"A senior EU diplomat said on Sunday that Israel's suspected role in the slaying of a Hamas militant in Dubai and the killers' alleged use of forged EU passports will harm Israel's relations with the European bloc." And why always accusations with no names.

The main idea of the enterprise is failing...

There was some real "Bodenheimer" who made an officer of the town create a wrong passport.

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

As a matter of fact and the EU does not ignore reality anymore.

This is unbelievable! Right now there are only two suspects in custody, both Palestinians with clear links to Fatah and its leaders. Yet here we are raking Israel over the coals when no evidence exists to implicate Israel. Add to that the guy killed was a weapons smuggler with shady connections and his being killed is nothing new in this kind of underworld. So the anti-Israel writers now jump on Israel without proof, no big surprise. Everybody speculates fine! But what isn't speculation is this, two Pals are in custody the rest is unprovable nonsense. If anyone should be blamed, at this point it must be the Pals themselves, at least and until there is more info available.

in Israel. You could fill a book with what you don't know. In 40 years as a dual citizen and dozens of trips through Ben-Gurion they have never asked for my US passport, only the Israeli one. Israeli citizens must enter and leave the country solely on their Israeli passports, that's the law. More than once I have left Israel on my Israeli passport and entered the destination with the US passport. When the destination is the US, I have to use the US passport. The British passports could not have been copied at Ben-Gurion because passport control never sees them. Passport control is at open stands where the holder can always see his passport. What you suggest is somewhere between improbable and impossible.

Sir, Indeed comparing retinal scan to fingerprints is nonsense.

at least eeech has the ability to comprehend the world around him/her----you on the other hand have too much london fog in your cranial area.

The big deal is that two wrongs do not make a right. Have you ever thought what could happen to you and your family if YOUR identity was stolen and you were suspected of murder? Do you think the other side would spend much time probing into whether you really did it or not? You'd be shot dead on your next travel abroad. THAT is the big deal!

"A senior EU diplomat said on Sunday that Israel's suspected role in the slaying of a Hamas militant in Dubai and the killers' alleged use of forged EU passports will harm Israel's relations with the European bloc". That is great news. I wonder what will happen, sanctions, downgrading of embassies, a slap on the wrist. Declaration of a Palestinian State in 2011? All of the above? Either way Avigdor (the nightclub bouncer) Lieberman will here the news tomorrow, if Netanyahu is brave enough to send him. (Thinks he'll have a cold or something)

too hypocritical....what is the fuss??? . when did the Dubai police arrest Afghan, Saudi, Palestinian terrorists??///////////will Dubai start it now? resident and transient terorist be aware to avoid Dubai!

Hamas lawlessness and lawbreakers are ruthless evil men themselves on a mission of illegality, lacking any semblance of moral or ethical structure or behavior. The Mossad, or whomever else did the world a favor, necessarily hand to handle such lawless men using equally ruthless, lawless means to accomplish the end goal of making this world a better and safer harbor for all mankind, especially for Israel these days. The Hamas lawbreaker was handled efficiently, expeditiously, and effectively, the tripe "E" that benefited so many others. Congratulations and commendations to those who work in secret and silence behind the scenes. Were such men as sponsored by Hamas not allowed to proliferate, then such responses and methods would not be required...unfortunately, such men do exist, and such agencies and methods therefore also exist...above, outside, and beyond the rule of law...thank God! Congratulations and Well done!!!

It seems so ridiculas that the UK, etc... are making a big deal over this when each day 45,000 innocent people are being killed in the Congo and Darfur & they are saying nothing & the same UK, etc... are not crying one tear over the victims of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh or that Dubai was harboring him.

...who, during WWII, served as Hitler's banker. Can't you see, dear boy, how much more "civilized" that was than getting their hands dirty actually fighting terorrism?

No terrorist should feel safe anywhere, whether it is Osama bin Laden or Meshal.

It's pretty creepy to think passports were copied at Ben Gurion airport. It has a reputation for asking endless questions to travelers and sometimes pulling them aside in the name of security, but if it is also done in the purpose of copying the passports it's not acceptable.

While Mr. Mabhouh undoubtedly has lots of blood on his hand, as far as I remember there is no extradition treaty between the USA and Israel. Thus, there was no legal recourse.

'Thank god the civilised world has higher moral standards than Israel'..............??? and this was witten from Switzerland...which moral standards are you referring to....???? The Swiss bank accounts of the Nazis or the swiss bank accounts of deceased jewish families that entrusted Switzerland to care for their childrens and grandchildrens heritage...that they never received. Or jewish loot that the Swiss are still hagling over since the war...that should be returned to their rightfull owners Higher moral standards !!?? covered in blood money........ Come to London and tell me that to my face; you will be much safer than going to Israel and telling them.

Why was Dubai harboring a known murderer and arms smuggler?

Bodenheimer is spending all his time in a yeshiva, studying tora...Finally he is doing some work- by having his ID taken...This is a first for an ultra orthodox; even though he had nothing to do with it, he helped our efforts- lately it's been proven that even leeches have some good uses...Yishar Kaoch...

Strange omission!! Media reports said that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was carrying several passports. Did we hear the Dubai police complain about it as vehemently as it does about the 11 other passports & the violation of its laws & its security risks?

So, your buddy Pals can wantonly kill, right ? In your world, ALL Israelis are "combatants", even 10-month old Shalhevet Pass, who was shot between the eyes while sitting in her stroller. She's surely an enemy combatant, right?? Please don't sugarcoat them as resistance fighters. This slimeball was rightfully eliminated, as will all other terrorists who murder. Israel does not need your permission to protect her citizens, AT ANY COST. I'd rather be a live chicken than a dead duck. They will continue to be hunted, globally if necessary, for the evil and havoc they create daily. If he was smuggling rockets, they deserve to be preempted and stopped by any means, contrary to you ridiculous claims of legality under International Law. Ori is totally correct, you are totally wrong, as usual.

When I last flew from Heathrow it struck me how many of the women officials at the passport checkin desk were wearing burkas.

which countries are in the civilised world club ?

First they have to find these super spies. You know, those that were looking into the cctv cameras, as if on some tv show. Of course they must have left plenty of fingerprints at the crime scene. Why tennis players, why not golfers, at least they could have whacked the terrorist with number nine iron. Cheerio from ski slopes.

have u not yet entered adulthoood ?

You are all absolutely wrong and twisting facts to match your claim that Israel forged these passports. The fact is Israel will NEVER ask for other passports when you enter Israel if you present an Israeli passport which you have to if you have double citizenship. I have dual citizenship and I often travel to Israel. I must show my Israeli passport to enter and not once was I asked to show my Canadian passport. The fact is there is ZERO proof that Mossad has forged these passports and wheteher you like it or not the Europeans have no proof to blame Israel, even if it is probably true that Mossad IS behind this. Any way, behind close doors the Europenas are very happy Israel got rid of this terrorist. The Europeans government and Israel are waging the SAME battle against islamic terrorism.

So where is the evidence that this was copied at Ben Gurion? Or do Israeli scanners give off special signals? More composed fiction from British Newspapers for the world to eat up.

Gee, r, we might take your self-righteous indignation a little more seriously if you weren't so hypocritical about it. Cos you're also blogging from Native American "occupied" territory, and you, being such a superior, moral person should give the example by going back to Europe. Please send next message after you have morally relocated. "Israel is occupying another state`s territory, seizing land and settling it. These are all illegal actions in international law. Some of the occupied are fighting back against the occupier. That is perfectly legal in international law."

This practice is not peculiarly Israeli. Other countries have the same two passport rules. My wife is legally obliged to use her South African passport when entering or leaving South Africa, but is free to use her U.S. passport for entering and leaving the U.S. and European passport for entering and leaving the European Union.

dubai and uae have long provided terrorists with a safe secure place to launder money plan operations and recruit Why wasn't mabhoud a self admitted murderer arrested?? Time to investigate the uae for its participation with terrorists. Why are the "facts" released by dubai accepted as gospel??

You are all absolutely wrong and twisting facts to match your claim that Israel forged these passports. The fact is Israel will NEVER ask for other passports when you enter Israel if you present an Israeli passport which you have to if you have double citizenship. I have dual citizenship and I often travel to Israel. I must show my Israeli passport to enter and not once was I asked to show my Canadian passport. The fact is there is ZERO proof that Mossad has forged these passports and wheteher you like it or not the Europeans have no proof to blame Israel, even if it is probably true that Mossad IS behind this. Any way, behind close doors the Europenas are very happy Israel got rid of this terrorist. After all European governments and Israel are waging the SAME battle against islamic terrorism.

Which civilized world would that be? "Thank god the civilised world has higher moral standards than Israel."

Was the Hamas terrorist on a false passport? why no enquiry there? Or was he on his own passport and is it OK in Dubai for the mass murderer of Jews to be allowed in?

tion about the whole affair.Both of you always post anti semetic points of view here on Haaretz and on british on line sites.The PA Abbas and many arab regimes wanted this man dead. He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. Israel was his target but so was all innocents. I wish the two of you would develop compassionate wisdom which would allow you to see events outside of the anti-semetic lense you use.Israel had every right to do what it needs to protect its citizen. To go further, there has never been a palestinian national identity no history no culture before Israel.A cult of hate is using this group formed by the nazi mufti Haj amin Husseni and his nephew and first Pal leader, PLO Egyptian born Arafat. This man was working for evil ideology nazi/muslim brotherhood/Hamas/Iran that wants to destroy the freedoms that you use to express untruths. Why don't you read the truth and understand that while world focuses on Israel, Islamists kill innocents,destroy freedoms

I really don't care about this terrorist-guy killed in Dubai. And it really doesn't matter for me if Mossad killed him or if he was killed by an opposer among his own people. Who is working in such business like terrorism, murder etc has to live with the risk.

...Between Israel & the combined sinister forces of Iran,and the Muslim world. If they were at peace this would not be an issue. The Media and the Left are treating it like a crime against an innocent..How irresponsible!

"...You say that British citizens can travel on their Israeli passports. That is true along with a visa and immigration queues in London or Manchester..." No! You don't need a visa to travel to Israel on an Israeli passport. Your argumnent does not make sense. The British citizens in question have double citizenship, therefore to enter Israel they can use their Israeli passports without any visas.

the countries involved are better off with this horrific monster, killer of children, past present and now NOT future dead. alot of us don't care that a monster died and if Hitler, Eichmann and Mufti Haj Husseni died like this earlier all the world would have been better off. This whole affair is a ploy to throw blame on Israel since many governments wanted him dead. first, Israeli's who had passport hadn't left the country in years so how were they recently copied on trips?

I assume Mr. Cummings is not a lawyer, since all the points he makes are based on an initial false premise, and therefore each of his conclusions is a non sequitur. I am not an Israeli. Israel does not 'occupy' even a single sq inch of Arab or 'moslem' land. On the contrary, much of the land of Israel is under foreign occupation by these very people. As far as Lebanon is concerned, Israel's actions were 100% justified and 100% legal. If the attacks on innocent Israelis from Lebanon were the acts of terrorists, Israel legally has the right of pursuit. If they were an act of war against Israel, Jihad or otherwise, the question of legality of counter attack does not even arise. Law and morality are 100% on the side of Israel, even if the United Nations interpretation of what they would like law to be is not. Selwyn Bentini

The 15 or so people I know who carry multiple passports through Ben Gurion have never been asked to show their non-Israeli papers. The routine check for dual citizens is whether they did Tsahal.

to fingerprints - that simple

What's the excitement about the copying?, all do it as a routine procedure. As to traveling in and out of Israel, if you have an IL passport you have to use it to exit/enter, afterward, outside IL, you can present whatever other you have, if you have, so you can have a non-IL passport without any IL stamps in it and an IL one with only IL stamps in it. Do you understand this now, James?

What's the excitement about the copying?, all do it as a routine procedure. As to traveling in and out of Israel, if you have an IL passport you have to use it to exit/enter, afterward, outside IL, you can present whatever other you have, if you have, so you can have a non-IL passport without any IL stamps in it and an IL one with only IL stamps in it. Do you understand this now, James?

numbers were incorrect, and had the wrong digits? That's some mean photocopier that mangled all those digits. Why the insinuations and why never names of officials that made them? Methinks that the Telegraph needed fluff to fill some blank pages.

Why not outrage that the terrorist was also carrying a forged passport ????

Dubai keeping this story on the front burner is of major importance to the freedom and security of the Emirate. Where else can a Muslim terrorist bent on buying banned armaments from Iran go to make the deal, launder the money, and arrange shipment? And if the process is delayed, where else can a cash laden jihadi killer with some free time go to shop at a gold souk, take a swim, or even ski for relaxation? This is a crisis that will have major repercussions for Dubai's economy. BTW what passport did the Hamas killer use to get into Dubai and who issued it? Syria, Iran? What was his occupation: import/export trade? Fodder for Keystone cops comedy.

and the duty to bear the consequences. You can admire your heroes now here: http://www.interpol.int/ Before you do any action, you should make a litte calculation: what are the earnings and what will it cost ? In this case: how much was the security of Israel improved, and how much reputation did Israel loose ? Well, of course Bibi did his own calculation: how many votes will I gain and how many will I loose ?

I an starting the think it was a joint Israel-PA operation or an Arab operation made to point the finger at Israel. Either way though the terrorist is dead and that's a good thing. If indeed Israel's Mossad is involved I'd say they need a brush up course on the details. Seems botched every which way besides the killing itself.

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Immigration officials in Israel won't hold a copy of dual citizens provided their foreign one is not on record and they have been Israeli citizens for around 2 years because until then they are not eligable for full passports. They get a tempory one which must be shown alongside the foreign one. Its only after you get a full passport that you don't need to bother showing immigration a foreign passport alongside the Israeli one. There are 2 ways this story may possibly hold weight. 1) How long ago did they make alliyah & are these new British passports they were traveling on and registered when they made alliyah ? 2) What is their status in Israel? If they are living here without taking out full citizenship they will not get an Israeli passport so will still use their foreign passport to get in & out just with some kind of long term resident visa rather than the 3 month tourist one. If its non of them then the Telegraph has its facts wrong.

R. Cummings, please tell us the name of the "state" whose territory "Israel is occupying."

The media is to blame for giving excessive coverage to this private security issue. It is part of a war on terror for goodness' sake. The U.S. President and the head of the CIA have done far more in secret and will do more in public, e.g. rejoice when they terminate Osama bin Laden in a foreign country ....just as the Hamas leader was terminated in a foreign country, Dubai! I do not understand the fuss. Let the Mossad be as free as the CIA and the British secret agents like James Bond, glorified for decades!!

8 - Ori, you bandy about the word 'terrorist' and use that to justify state extra-judicial murder. That is a peculiarly Israeli way of looking at it. Israel is occupying another state's territory, seizing land and settling it. These are all illegal actions in international law. Some of the occupied are fighting back against the occupier. That is perfectly legal in international law. If they kill occupying forces, as this guy is alleged to have done, well that is what resistance fighters do and are entitled to do. A terrorist is one who deliberately targets non-combatants. There is a strong strand of evidence from Lebanon 2, Cast Lead and Israel's daily actions in the WB that it deliberately targets and kills non-combatants. It is therefore a terrorist state which should be on the international community's watch-list. The overriding priority in the Dubai affair is a legal one. Extra-judicial murder of political opponents is a crime, no matter how Israel tries to dress it up.

No doubt they would primarily be using their Israeli passprts when entering Israel, but no doubt they would also use their UK passports when enteriing Britain. So if they'd visited Britain, as no doubt British Israelis frequently would, on return to Israel they would have both UK and Israeli passports on them. They could easily then have been asked to hand over both passports 'for a routine check' or some other official excuse.

there will need to be a re-evaluation of travel between Israel and the rest of the International Community. As using seperate travel documents on a journey must be a security risk that can be used to allow murderers to travel with impunity. It cannot be right to use an Israeli passport at the beginning of a journey and use a british passport at the end of that journey.

Correct, I always have to show my Israeli passport. However, it also happened a few times that they asked me to show my 2nd passport (upon exit von BG only). Good that my 2nd passport gets soon renewed - I'll never show it again.

Good luck!

After all, it wouldn't have been hard for them to do. The fact that the Brtisih government to propogating speculation as fact is crime.

CL: "I think Avigdor (the nightclub bouncer) Lieberman is showing up in Brussels tomorrow expecting a nudge nudge wink wink a pat on the back and a well done." And I think you are exactly right i.e. Israel is following yesterday's game plan, and doesn't realise that everyone else's patience with Israeli rule-bending is at its limit. So, yeah, the Israelis do not appear to be ready for the reception they will receive over their, ahem, casual attitude towards Other Country's Passports. Israel can't keep treating other country's passports like Monopoly Money because, sooner or later, they have to be made to pay a cost. I suspect that bill is being toted up right now...

What is the big deal? Surely everyone knows that countries do this routinely... the US, the UK, Russia, and many others. Bottom line: the guy they killed was a known Hamas lowlife with blood on his hands. He got what was coming to him.

Thank god the civilised world has higher moral standards than Israel.

Talkbacker is right, Israelis entering use their Israeli passports (though not always). Where the fraud is most likely taking place is when the foreign nationals submit their documents to the Misrad Hapnim (Ministry of Interior) OR if they are stopped at B-G and asked to render any additional passports. Now we know why they're always disappearing with passports "just for a second" to check on something...

This does not work. Hamas as a terrorist organisation is history.

This is nonsense since dual nationals only show their Israeli passport when leaving and returning to Israel.

presueming these British Nationals have dual nationality as is suggested here, you are required to leave on your Israeli passport and enter Israel with your Israeli passport. At no point are you asked to show your British Passport only by the airline security in a foreign airport before departing for Israel.

The report from The Telegraph contains clear untruths. One of the legitimate paasport holders hasnt left the country for a few years so Immigration officials wont have a recent copy. Secondly, those who are dual Israeli- Foreign passport holders cannot enter and exit Israel on their foreign passports, Immigration officails wont hold a copy of the British passports. So the Telegraph theory is rubbish

Israeli citizens are required by law to use their Israeli passports only when entering or leaving the country. The foreign passports would not have even been produced for inspection at any Israeli port of entry (for someone with dual citizenship) Just more Israel bashing nonsense.

So was the boss of the MI5 at the time of the Philby affair. Even identity of Jack the Ripper has been kept secret for more than 150 years ,he was after all a cousin of Queen Victoria. Now the Brits have a ball ,they know who and how in a jiffy. A smoke screen designed to deflect attention from British deliveries of weapons to Iran which the killed pal could disclose

We all know now that Dubai International airport copies passports of those who pass through so why is there any difference if staff at B-G do the same?

How dare officials criminally forge documents of their own innocent civilians???? Is the counry run by one or two man posse?????? Maybe that explains why some top ex-officials are also ex-cons. Are Israelis in deep freeze to all the above???? Almost all info. was already leaked by MI6 official but not before himself being tipped off by a Mossad chief.

Unless of course during the interviews that have been made with the 6 British citizens involved in this sorry affair can prove they haven't travelled anywhere since the made Aliyah to Israel. Then of course you are making the presumption that the numbers were of current valid passports, they were not biometric and so easily copied. You say that British citizens can travel on their Israeli passports. That is true along with a visa and immigration queues in London or Manchester. The alternative you suggest is that Israelis are allowed to use two forms of travel documentation when travelling. Current rules are that the passenger manifests show the names using the travel documents used. So it is perfectly probable that British passports were copied at Ben Gurion Airport.

Shame on all the countries and people of the world who care more about how a terrorist was killed than all the deaths this terrorist caused to his innocent victims! If our world is more concerned with his death then the victims he murdered we are truly a weak and morally bankrupt world. When terrorists are more important than the victims they kill we truly need to reexamine the moral compass our world is spinning around!

Expects us to believe that Mossad didn't under take this murder most foul. Yet everyday more and more evidence appears that shows us that it was Mossad that done it. And that is the evidence we have been told about by the authorities not what they know and we don't yet. I think Avigdor (the nightclub bouncer) Lieberman is showing up in Brussels tomorrow expecting a nudge nudge wink wink a pat on the back and a well done. I think Netanyahu should seriously consider cancelling his trip. He is about to be ambushed and it is going to be brilliantly entertaining.

honest and objective ... Pehaps they'll now also disclose who was the "5th man" in the russkie spy Philby affair ..

britshit papers are fascineted, they don't have more to invent, to sell news.

They could have been copies anywhere. As an Israeli he only needs to show his Israeli passport at Ben Gurion when he leaves and enter, he cannot leave or enter with his German. His German passport would never be asked for, so if his German passport was copied it must have been elsewhere. As to the UK, the original passport data of UK would be on record from time of immigration, not the recent or updated passports. And like the German, Israeli citizens cannot not leave or enter the country with any other passport but Israeli, even if they have duality. Their foreign passport is not shown or needed at Ben Gurion, it is only needed to show when they enter and leave the UK alone, or if they choose to travel in Europe as a UK citizen. So being copied at Ben Gurion is out. And in Israel they would have Israeli local IDs for identification purposes not passports.

As if it's not bad enough that Mossad steals Euro passports and sends its death squad into a hotel in one of the favourite winter holiday destinations of Europeans, we now have the unedifying sight of Israel's deputy foreign minister still trying to pretend it wasn't Mossad.

So it was arranged in January whats the big deal, these things do need time to plan its not something you do overnight. How many foreign passports does MI6 or CIA forge if they are going to need them for an operation? THE SUSPECTS USED THE FAKE PASSPORTS BEARING THEIR OWN PICTURES BUT WITH THE NUMBERS OF INOCENT EUROPEANS This makes it sound like Israel is the only country that would do anything like that and the rest of the world has higher moral standards and would never even consider it. The global intelligence community commits lots of illegal acts at the expense of others without thinking twice. It wouldn't even surprise me if Mossad legally have access to the computers of the immigration authorities and they could do this at will anytime if the government gives them the go ahead to carry our an operation. Lets stop condemning intelligence agencies for committing illegal acts because if they didn't break the law they would never get anything done making them useless

passport fraud is seriously undermining the fight against terrorism, airport security is failing if we do not know the real identity of the passengers. So this alone is a reason for concern of the UK, Ireland, and Germany.So if they find out which nation was behind this, it would have been very irresponsible and should not be without consequences, e.g. in the form of travel restrictions to the airports where there is risk of identity theft.

If these Britons living in Israel are citizens of Israel, which would seem to be the case due to the length of time they have been living in Israel, then they would need to use an Israeli passport to enter and leave the country. These israeli citizens are under no obligation to advise the Israeli government of the details of their British passports. Only at the time of immigration would they have shown their original passport. Renewals of the passport do not have to be shown to any Israeli govt. officials.