Hendrickson was expelled for the equivalent of arranging for Jeremy Corbyn (Labour MP) to talk to senior US government officials in Washington Margaret Thatcher (Conservative MP) was in power - in other words, no offence was committed therefore no need to resort to diplomatic immunity. Just that farking useless PAP was feeling insecure. In this table cloth case, an offence was indeed committed.
In Hendrickson's case, US and Singapore relations were restored to normal in quick time, despite Singapore's unreasonable actions and America's very appropriate reprisal, because relations between two states goes beyond any individual or political party. The same will happen with Israel which is a much smaller state than America, with no blue navy or aircraft carriers. However, if Singapore fails to take appropriate action, its dignity and standing with the international community and its very own citizens will be affected. Tomorrow, an Indian diplomat uses the Sinkie flag as a door mat and you will not be able to expel him since SG will be accused of unfairness and racism since it let that farktard Jewish son of a bitch off with an insincere apology.
If Viva Bala-bullshit don't understand this, he should go fark spider!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore–United_States_relations
E. Mason "Hank" Hendrickson (born 1945), an American diplomat married to fellow Foreign Service officer Anne E. Derse, was serving as the First Secretary of the United States Embassy when he was expelled by the Singaporean government in May 1988.[5][6][7] Prior to his expulsion, he arranged for Francis Seow and Patrick Seong to travel to Washington, D.C. to meet with American officials at Hendrickson's arrangement.[8] After their return, Singapore detained them under the Internal Security Act.[9] Based on Seow and Seong's statements while in custody, the Singaporean government alleged that Hendrickson attempted to interfere in Singapore's internal affairs by cultivating opposition figures in a "Marxist conspiracy".[8] Then-First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong claimed that Hendrickson's alleged conspiracy could have resulted in the election of 20 or 30 opposition politicians to Parliament, which in his words could lead to "horrendous" effects, possibly even the paralysis and fall of the Singaporean government.[9]
In the aftermath of Hendrickson's expulsion, the U.S. State Department praised his performance in Singapore and denied any impropriety in his actions.[5] The State Department also expelled Robert Chua, a senior-level Singaporean diplomat equal in rank to Mason, from Washington, D.C. in response.[10][11] The State Department's refusal to reprimand Hendrickson, along with their expulsion of the Singaporean diplomat, sparked a protest in Singapore by the National Trades Union Congress; they drove buses around the U.S. embassy, held a rally attended by four thousand workers, and issued a statement deriding the U.S. as "sneaky, arrogant, and untrustworthy".[12]
A Heritage Foundation paper speculated that Singapore's angry public reaction to the Hendrickson affair may have been a response to the January 1988 termination of Singapore's eligibility for the Generalized System of Preferences, which provided tariff exemptions on Singaporean exports to the United States.[10]