(Telegraph-UK) Ron Prosor - Israel and Britain are members of an elite club of countries whose flags are frequently burnt in hostile Middle Eastern dictatorships. The venomous tirades of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also include regular mentions of "criminal Britain," proof that you must be doing something right. Extremists who despise democracy are abusing Britain's institutions to demonize Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, out of the accepted family of nations. Ironically, the abuse of British tolerance has made it the Western headquarters of the assault on Israel's legitimacy. The writer, Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom for the past four years, will be Israel's new ambassador to the UN.
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