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A little more balance to an overwhelmingly dishonest article.Reader comment on item: Rogue Israelis, Rogue Arabs in New Zealand Submitted by NZ Lawyer (New Zealand), Jan 2, 2010 at 21:54 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/israeli-spy-case/news/article.cfm?c_id=606&objectid=3578473 as you should well know, attempting to gain a passport by fraud is considered by the statutes more serious than manufacturing or forging one. In the former, once a passport is gained, it is the "real mccoy", while the latter wouldn't last long given various border checks in place at the time, and since. I would suggest someone with an axe to grind against Arabs would claim Israeli's get a tougher deal than Arabs. Here the Israeli's got 6 months jail for passport fraud, and were out in half that. While Arabs got 5 years for something, you imply is similar when in reality it was not. And they served more than just a half of their sentence. Submitting....
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