Israel sorry for official’s call to ‘take down’ UK minister
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LONDON — Israel’s embassy in Britain apologized Sunday after an employee was recorded saying he wanted to “take down” a U.K. government minister who has criticized Israeli settlement-building in the West Bank.
The Mail on Sunday newspaper published footage of senior political officer Shai Masot saying Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan was causing “a lot of problems.” The meeting between Masot and an aide to a British Conservative lawmaker at a London restaurant was covertly filmed by a journalist for Qatari-owned broadcaster Al-Jazeera, posing as a pro-Israel activist.
Masot is heard asking the aide, Maria Strizzolo, “Can I give you some names of MPs (members of Parliament) that I would suggest you take down?” He later mentions Duncan specifically.
He also calls Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson “an idiot,” but adds that he is “basically good.”
