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London: The Mayor of London's verbal attack on a Jewish reporter took on an international dimension on Wednesday as Israel's Ambassador to the U.K. called on the Mayor, Ken Livingstone, to apologise. Zvi Heifetz, the Israeli envoy, said Mr. Livingstone's comments to the Evening Standard reporter, Oliver Finegold, likening him to a Nazi concentration camp guard, had reverberated with Jewish communities around the world. As Mr. Livingstone again rejected pleas for an apology, there was further pressure from the House of Commons, where a Labour MP tabled a motion criticising his behaviour. But Mr. Livingstone found some support from Tony Blair, who declined to repeat his earlier request that he should apologise and instead said it would be ``sensible to move on''.In his statement, Mr. Heifetz said: ``By using such flippant language, Livingstone not only seriously abused the memories of all those Jews who survived the concentration camps, but also the thousands of British troops who died fighting the Nazis.'' — © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
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