UK to beg forgiveness from Israel

British intelligence officers and members of an elite commando team accompanying a UK diplomat on a secret mission were nabbed in Libya by the opposition forces they had come to assist, forced to strip to their skivvies. They had their passports confiscated before being trundled out of the country, ignominiously. 

That was bad enough. 
But it turns out that worse was yet to come. 
It seems that some of the Brits weren't using UK passports but rather documentation from at least three foreign countries, the BBC reported.

Just a year ago this month, then foreign secretary David Miliband got his knickers into a terrible twist when it appeared that the Mossad may have used the passports of former Brits in the elimination of Hamas terror ringleader Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai.  

It was an 'outrage,' Miliband had superciliously fumed, telling members of Parliament that Israel had added "insult to injury."  Other MPs practically frothed at the mouth. the esteemed Foreign Secretary (now out of a job) had an Israeli diplomat expelled and demanded a written commitment from Israel that it would never, ever, dare to do anything so dastardly. Without such a commitment, he warned, Israel would not be permitted to name a replacement.

To his credit, current foreign secretary William Hague did his best to make amends, groveling for forgiveness in a Skype call to Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and placing an apologetic phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "We now realize, Bibi," Hague allegedly told the Israeli PM, that in the grand scheme of things, a little creative forgery and abuse of diplomatic documents is not the most heinous of crimes. We do it all the time, in fact. I can't even blame it on my predecessor, even if he is a silly Labor twit. The truth is, we Tories enjoy ganging up on you Israelis and holding you to a ridiculous double standard just as much. It's good sport."

In the next breath, he forgave Israel Insider for inventing the preceding paragraph, and thankedYidwithLid for bringing the matter to his attention. He promised that holding Israel to a hypocritical standard not adhered to by any other company would never happen again