Israeli Embassy's Dubai tweet is not a hit

Posted By Andrew Swift Friday, February 19, 2010 - 6:12 PM Share

The latest Twitter fail comes courtesy of the Israeli Mission to Britain. The Thursday tweet included a link to a story about Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer's advancement to the quarterfinals of the Dubai Championship, but also seemed to jokingly reference last month's killing of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, which Mossad is suspected to have committed.

It seems the message was particularly poorly-timed, as London asked the Embassy about the use of faked British passports during the Dubai operation on the very same day. The Guardian first reported the posting, but Ynet News grabbed a screenshot of the Tweet itself. It reads:

You heard it here first: Israeli tennis player carries out hit on #Dubai target http://ow.ly/18A79

The message was removed within minutes of its posting. A response was put out by the Israeli Mission today:

Naturally, messages on the Twitter network are characterized with a great deal of creativity. In this case the creativity was undoubtedly inappropriate. The ambassador told off the employee who wrote the message and it was removed.

One would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that telling off. ("WHO'S THE GUILTY TWEETER?")

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BLUE13326

4:12 PM ET

February 20, 2010

Yes, we should all be very

Yes, we should all be very sensitive and concerned when a mass murderer gets killed without collateral damage...as opposed to when we do it with missiles and kill a few dozen innocents at the same time...

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9:18 PM ET

February 21, 2010

if it was just that it would

if it was just that it would be one thing, but unfortunately identify theft is a real concern, as it going to other countries under false pretense and everything else this story is about that you would like to overlook.... perhaps it would be okay by you if they do the same with netanyahu? he is a mass murderer as well, but of that i am sure you will find some convenient response for as well...

SCOTTGOOSE

2:47 PM ET

February 27, 2010

It would be their prerogative to try...they surely have

Notwithstanding obvious IL precedents that were disregarded by whoever assassinated this vermin (which every espionage agency engages in, mind you), targeted killings with zero collateral damage is a job well done in everyones book. Notice the complete lack of statements from the Arab world, who quietly applaud the efforts, as they all despise Hamas and Iran as well.

To the anonymous responder's post:
If you mean Netanyahu is a mass murderer ipso facto due to chain-of-command (which I'm sure you didn't mean), than of course Hamas and Hezbollah would love to murder an Israeli PM. However, the former groups are non-state actors who gleefully kill civilians, while a PM is a civilian. Unless your cool with murdering civilians, which Iranian-proxies certainly love, than this breach of protocol is only a formality.

But believe what you want. I agree with blue as usual; a targeted assassination is ideal compared to a less precise aerial strike that puts civilian's at risk.

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