Britain says it wants a “reset” with Israel.

Britain says it wants a “reset” with Israel.

Fine. Then the whole relationship should be part of the reset, including the parts London rarely discusses in public.

In 2015, MI5 found roughly 3.5 tons of ammonium nitrate in northwest London, stockpiled by Hezbollah as a contingency for a possible future attack. Senior British ministers knew. Parliament did not.

Years later, Israeli officials said the Mossad had provided the intelligence that led Britain to the cache.

This week, as London moves to punish Israel economically over the West Bank, British ministers are simultaneously insisting that Israel remains an “important security ally” and that intelligence cooperation should continue.

That contradiction is the point.

Britain cannot steadily redefine its political relationship with Israel while assuming the most valuable parts of the strategic relationship remain automatic.

(Zvika Klein on X)