Foreign Ministry shrugs off UK petition seeking PM’s arrest

11 August 2015, 7:18 pm

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The Foreign Ministry says in response to a British petition seeking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrest on arrival in London that it’s “a PR stunt with no real meaning.”

“Bilateral ties between Britain and Israel are closer than ever before, as evidenced by data on mutual trade, doubled in recent years, and by the cooperation in academic studies, culture and science between the two countries.”

“Any person can initiate such a petition on the website of the British Parliament,” adding that “currently, there are running petitions on legalizing drugs (with 200,000 signatures) and regulating the price of milk (40,000),” a ministry spokesperson says.