Assassination of Hamas commander in Dubai / British passport row: Britain expels Israeli diplomat

Assassination of Hamas commander in Dubai / British passport row: Britain expels Israeli diplomat; ENGLAND: London: GIR: INT David Miliband MP (Foreign Secretary) 2-WAY interview from Westminster SOT - Took three measures...travel advice, demand for an assurance from Israel that this would not happen in future, thirdly removal of someone, member of Israeli Embassy in London on the basis of the investigations we've undertaken in last 4 or 5 weeks, would discourage speculation about his exact role, am not going to go into details about who he is... - I made clear in House of Commons that the quality of the forgeries made us believe this was a state intelligence service and the investigation by Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) found consistent links to Israel which didn't exist in the case to any other country...compelling evidence this was linked back to Israel - (On Israeli foreign minister and ambassador's comments) ...unlike in Britain the overseas intelligence in Israel does not report to the Foreign Office and I think we should take at face value what he has said, understood seriousness with which we were addressing this issue... We should now await a reply from Israel to the important letter I've sent them seeking assurance on behalf of all British passport holders that travel to Israel that there'll be nothing like this in future - ... One of the people said they went to bed as a citizen and woken up as a wanted terrorist on frontpages of newspapers around the world...completely intolerable for people who are British passport holders.... Very important people keep close hold of their passports when they are travelling - ... We are very clear about need to respect basis of Palestinian state, to be viable it needs to be based on 1967 borders.... Clear about the need for access into Gaza, I believe we take the appropriate diplomatic and other steps according to the issue - We work closely with Israeli authorities on issues that are of mutual concer...
Assassination of Hamas commander in Dubai / British passport row: Britain expels Israeli diplomat; ENGLAND: London: GIR: INT David Miliband MP (Foreign Secretary) 2-WAY interview from Westminster SOT - Took three measures...travel advice, demand for an assurance from Israel that this would not happen in future, thirdly removal of someone, member of Israeli Embassy in London on the basis of the investigations we've undertaken in last 4 or 5 weeks, would discourage speculation about his exact role, am not going to go into details about who he is... - I made clear in House of Commons that the quality of the forgeries made us believe this was a state intelligence service and the investigation by Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) found consistent links to Israel which didn't exist in the case to any other country...compelling evidence this was linked back to Israel - (On Israeli foreign minister and ambassador's comments) ...unlike in Britain the overseas intelligence in Israel does not report to the Foreign Office and I think we should take at face value what he has said, understood seriousness with which we were addressing this issue... We should now await a reply from Israel to the important letter I've sent them seeking assurance on behalf of all British passport holders that travel to Israel that there'll be nothing like this in future - ... One of the people said they went to bed as a citizen and woken up as a wanted terrorist on frontpages of newspapers around the world...completely intolerable for people who are British passport holders.... Very important people keep close hold of their passports when they are travelling - ... We are very clear about need to respect basis of Palestinian state, to be viable it needs to be based on 1967 borders.... Clear about the need for access into Gaza, I believe we take the appropriate diplomatic and other steps according to the issue - We work closely with Israeli authorities on issues that are of mutual concer...
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