Tamir Pardo, who is set to take over the role of Mossad chief this week, will apologize to the British government for the agency’s use of fraudulent passports in carrying out its assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in January, the Telegraph reported Saturday.
Gordon Thomas, who has previously written a book on the Mossad, wrote in Saturday’s report that Pardo will vow the agency will never again forge official British documents.
The report cites “Mossad insiders” who say Pardo will deliver his vow in private meetings with Foreign Secretary William Hague and Home Secretary Theresa May.
The move is designed to rehabilitate ties with the British government, which were harmed by the use of the passports.
Britain expelled its Mossad representative in March, after an investigation revealed that the agency had forged 12 British passports as part of its creation of 26 identities for agents sent to assassinate Mabhouh in Dubai.
Former Foreign Secretary David Milliband remarked then that Israel had shown “profound disregard” for British sovereignty. “The fact that this was done by a country which is a friend, with significant diplomatic, cultural, business and personal ties to the UK, only adds insult to injury,” he added.
Pardo was formerly deputy to Meir Dagan, currently Mossad chief. The Telegraph cites agency sources as saying that he objected to using fake British, Australian, and Irish passports though he left his post in June of 2009, six months before the assassination.
(Source: Ynet)
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No doubt this highly justified apology for killing a terrorist will win over the British government, which is, after all, such a longstanding, good friend to the Jews that in 1948 it abstained at the UN from voting even to recognize Israel.
If this is true then the Mossad has reached a new low of disgusting behavior.
When did Britain apologize for the Jews they murdered, kidnapped and tortured during the Mandate period? When did they apologize for their collaboration with the Nazis in the murder of European Jews? When did they apologize for instigating dozens of Pogroms against the Jews in Palestine using their Arab allies?
A Government loyal to the Jewish people would not only not apologize to these degenerates but would have pressed them for compensation for all the damages they have done to the Jewish people. Just as was done with the Germans.
Aryeh Zelasko
Beit Shemesh
I am extremely HAPPY and RELIEVED that the state of Israel are finally apologizing to our government.
I live in the UK (gateshead, in fact) and the assassination caused such an uproar here, actually, we have all suffered even more antisemitism, directly caused by the passport forgeries.
It has been a very difficult few months for those of us in chutz lo’oretz that have to live with all the come back due to the “so called state of Israel’s” policies and actions.
Lets hope the “state” continues to apologise for the mistakes it makes.