News Zealand declares war on Israel?

What a strange story.
 

NEW Zealand has cut diplomatic ties with Israel after two alleged Israeli spies - including one who had lived in Sydney for several years - were jailed last night for trying to obtain a false Kiwi passport.
 
A furious Prime Minister Helen Clark banned Israeli President Moshe Katsov from entering New Zealand, accusing Israel of an "utterly unacceptable breach of New Zealand sovereignty and international law".
 
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In the High Court in Auckland yesterday, former Sydney-based travel agent Eli Cara, 51, and Uriel Zoshe Kelman, 31, were each sentenced to six months jail and ordered to pay NZ$50,000 ($44,885) compensation each to the New Zealand Cerebral Palsy Society.

They pleaded guilty earlier this month to using the name of a cerebral palsy sufferer in Auckland to obtain a passport for another Israeli, Zev Barkan, who fled to Sydney before he could be caught.

New Zealand police say they have no idea where he is now.

Miss Clark said she had "no doubt" the men were Israeli secret agents, but would not comment on whether they worked for the domestic spy agency Mossad, counter-intelligence group Shin Bet or military intelligence agency Aman.

 

You can't make this stuff up.

Is New Zealand a new hot bed for Arab extremists? Are they shipping nuclear weapons capabilities to Syria? And what's with the C.P. connection?

You would think the blogosphere would be reeling from this news, but all I hear is silence out there. I mean, wondering why George Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq based on one page of information is yesterday's leftovers. This is news.