Israel has quietly reopened its embassy in Wellington, New Zealand, after an eight-year hiatus that took effect because of budget considerations but was highlighted by frosty relations triggered by a false passport issue.
New Zealand’s government initially did not even announce the location of the new embassy in order to avoid planned protests by pro-Arab groups. New Zealand’s new Israeli ambassador is Shemi Tzur, who is to present his credentials to New Zealand's Governor-General on May 7.
The embassy will take over matters that have been administered by Israel’s embassy in Australia the past eight years.
In 2004, New Zealand caught two Mossad agents trying to illegally obtain local passports, resulting in the suspension of high-profiled diplomatic relations between the two countries until Israel apologized the following year.
The current prime [minister] of New Zealand is John Key, who is Jewish, but the local Jewish community said it was not even aware of the reopening of the embassy.
Israel Quietly Reopens Embassy in New Zealand
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The Israeli embassy was closed for 8 years because of "budget considerations" but has recently re-opened?
What kind of budget considerations are we talking about? The Israeli do not pay themselves for stuff like that - it is taken care of by the US tax payers who pick up all its bills, even bills for illegal settlements.
Does it occur to anyone that the closure of the Israeli embassy might have something to do with the crime Isreal and its institutions perpetrated on New Zealand? The reason for re-opening the diplomatic relations with a country which consistently navigates on the wrong side of international law and which has so far refused to define its own borders should have something to do with its "repentence" and its rejoining humanity, but I have entirely missed that piece of news!
Back to square one: Lying, stealing and killing! That is what the chosen ones are good at.