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Please remove the picture, it's making me sick - as a notoriously photoshopped version of Helen Clark it's also not NPOV! A more salient picture would be Phil Goff's holding hands with Yasser Arafat during a visit in which he showed solidarity with the leader during the intifada, and snubbed the Israeli government, thus illustrating the outlook of Israel in engaging in spying on a notoriously left-wing and pro-terrorist New Zealand government.

Do you feel that a description of the New Zealand government as 'notoriously left-wing and pro-terrorist' would confirm to a NPOV policy?

That being said I don't think the picture of Helen Clark is necessary because this article only peripherally involves her. Perhaps some trial photographs of the convicted? I remember some floating about in the media at the time.

Criticism of the Clark administration

With respect...the personal opinions of a former MP who has never been elected to Parliament under ACT hardly constitutes reasonable or fair comment in a Wikipedia article about Israeli-New Zealand relations. Clearly this former Labour man has an axe to grind and his personal assumption concerning the relationship between Phil Goff and Arafat would be better vented in some gutter tabloid, not in Wikipedia. Political or religious opinion belongs somewhere else.

Lest we not forget that Gabi Ashkenazi is the chief of staff to the IDF and his associates had just been done for passport fraud in NZ. The last thing New Zealand needs is for the holder of a NZ passport to be convicted somewhere in the world for an assassination which goes wrong and takes out women and children!

I propose that this paragraph is removed forthwith..Mombas 22:51, 23 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. Mombas 12:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Title?

The current title of this page is '2004 Israel-New Zealand spy scandal'. Given that the two men were neither charged, nor convicted, with espionage, and there is no public evidence for the claim that they were spies, I feel the 'spy scandal' wording is inappropriate. 2004 Israel-New Zealand passport scandal would be a more neutral title, and also better comply with the requirements of WP:BLP policy. Terraxos (talk) 04:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]