The attached, from The BBC website's report on the expulsion of the Israeli diplomat, is quite classick. What does he mean by "a government like the British"? Is the implication that it is particularly cautious? Or that it has an innate sense of fair play?....
The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen said the expulsion sent a "very clear message" of British disapproval.
"It is a very big step for a government like the British to expel one of the diplomats belonging to one of its important allies," he said.