US Embassy ‘Lies and Spies’ on Maaleh Adumim
 

Is impersonating an Israeli police officer compatible with a diplomat's duties? I can imagine the uproar if an Israeli diplomat did the same in the U.S..

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U.S.embassy personnel drove to the E-1 area of Maaleh Adumin last week and lied to activists who had erected tents, telling them they were police while taking photographs. Shortly after the vehicles left, police arrived and confiscated the tents, but the American embassy later confirmed that the license plates belonged to American diplomatic personnel.

The incident was “espionage,” charged National Union Knesset Member Dr. Michael Ben-Ari, who said he will ask the Knesset to discuss the event. American officials responded that their personnel were carrying out “routine activities” but did not explain why they lied to activists.

The area involved is called E-1 and is part of Maaleh Adumim, a city of 40,000 Jews located directly east of Jerusalem. During the Bush administration, the American government reversed its policy and went back on understandings that Israel would develop the E-1 area as part of its natural expansion of the city....
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source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144563