Israel's Mossad appear to have been at work again with the grizzly murder of a senior Hamas official in a Dubai hotel.
While the circumstantial evidence of faked passports and footage from CCTV point the finger at Israel, London Muslim believes the damage incidents like this do to what's left of Israel's reputation will be irreparable.
One need only sit in a London taxi to realise the Gaza massacre was a game changer in terms of ordinary opinion towards Israel despite the support from a small albeit shrill and influential section within the political and media establishment.
However, take away the activists on both sides of the argument it is the shifting opinion of the vast majority of mainstream opinion that increasingly looks at Israel as a pariah state.
When Jack Straw meets the Labour Friends of Israel he need only cite this assassination as evidence of why their demands for a change in the universal jurisdiction over war crimes legislation should be kicked into the long grass.
How interesting it is that David Milliband who usually runs towards a microphone to condemn or express unease and concern at the actions of for example Iran remains curiously silent on the use of British passports to commit murder by a foreign power that engages in State Terrorism