The Guardian newspaper said Wednesday that Israel’s persistence in defying the US call for halting settlement activities in occupied Jerusalem and its forging of British passports in order to murder a senior Hamas official in Dubai is a “mark of arrogance.”
The Guardian highlighted, commenting about the issue of forged British passports and the last remarks made by Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington about occupied Jerusalem, that “both events in London and Washington are the marks of an arrogant nation that has overreached itself.”
“The forging of British passports is the work of a country which believes it can act with impunity when planning the murder of its enemies, while simultaneously claiming to share the values of a law-based state,” the newspaper added. “Netanyahu's statements in Washington, made as he was preparing to meet Barack Obama, are the mark of a leader who thinks he can openly defy the will of Israel's closest military ally.”
It also quoted US secretary of state Hillary Clinton as saying that “continued construction in east Jerusalem undermines America's ability to play any effective role in the peace process.”
The Guardian warned Netanyahu that he has to face the consequences of his ideological stand over east Jerusalem and stop pre-empting the shape of the final agreement by creating facts on the ground, adding that no deal with the Palestinians can be made in such conditions.
For its part, the Independent newspaper stated Wednesday that the British-Israeli diplomatic crisis is at its lowest ebb because of the Mossad’s use of cloned British passports in Dubai assassination.
The newspaper added that the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat was not only intended for conveying the British government’s dismay about this issue to Israel, but also to the British public opinion.
In a related context, pro-Palestinian British organizations and jurists in the UK decided to bring charges against the Mossad for the assassination of Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai and its forgery of British citizens’ passports.
Al-Jazeera net quoted lawyers and human rights activists as saying that the case of Mabhouh’s murder would be referred to British courts in the next few days.
For its part, the British Muslim Initiative called for expelling Israel’s ambassador in London and enlightening the British public about the details of this crime.
Mabhouh’s wife, for her part, told Al-Jazeera net that a group of attorneys will follow up the case of her husband’s murder in the next few days.
She said she handed an official proxy in this regard to a noted legal office in the UK specialized in such cases, pointing out that lawyers will seek to focus on the crime of assassination itself and not only on the issue of the forged passports.
In the same context, the British foreign office on Wednesday warned citizens that it might not be safe to use their passports in Israel.
On a warning posted on its website, the foreign office called on its citizens not to leave their passports in the possession of a third party in Israel, especially airports’ security officials.
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