Israel can learn from the Irish peace process

Ambassador Zeev Boker has a tough task appeasing sentiment here about Israeli activity in Gaza, but our countries have much in common, he tells Juno McEnroe

Ill-feeling in Ireland towards Israel perhaps peaked in 2010, when the Israeli secret service, Mossad, used forged Irish passports in the killing of a Palestinian commander.

Who can forget the grainy CCTV images of Mossad members dressed as tennis players leaving an elevator in a Dubai hotel minutes before assassinating Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, the Hamas commander, in his bed?