By all means kill a Palestinian using our passports. Can I come to your house-warming?
Despite ongoing controversy over Israel's alleged role in the killing of a Hamas commander, we hear that David Miliband is to attend a housewarming reception at the recently refurbished Israeli embassy at the end of the month, reports the UK's Independent daily...
After two weeks of diplomatic wrangling, it appears that the temporary impasse between the Foreign Office and the Israeli embassy has come to a close.
Despite ongoing controversy over Israel's alleged role in the killing of a Hamas commander, we hear that David Miliband is to attend a housewarming reception at the recently refurbished Israeli embassy at the end of the month.
What's more, in something of a turn-up for the books, the Foreign Secretary is to be joint guest of honour at the event, along with the Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks.
Only two weeks ago the Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor was being summoned to the Foreign Office to explain the use of forged British passports by the Dubai assassins...
"I have no idea," sniffed a spokesman. "All I can say is that he's going. He has been invited and thus he is attending."