...In real life, the seriousness of the act has to be seen in the context of the social and political environment within which it occurred...
Sinki land is surrounded by muslim neighbours and all of them are watching what pappies would do. Would pappies allow the israeli to walk away and just accept an apology? Or, would the pappies kick him out? How serious would pappies view this incident? A meek lamb or a roaring lion?
He can always be immediately posted to another embassy, say in Syria, where he can take his time to learn how to show respect to the host nation
If that israeli shit had done it in another country, he would have been on the first plane ride out of the country. No apology needed, just fuck off.
Failure to assuage the hurt feelings of the Singaporean populace will do far greater damage to the nation building process
A fallacy to assume sinki land is a country of singaporean populace with patriotism. Who really cares about nation building process? The tiongs or the vietcongs or the ah nehs or the pinoys? All these imported foreign shits are in sinki land for one mission - that is to make as much money as they can and then scoot off to where they came from or to head for the white man country.
The Israeli side must understand that if a Sinkie diplomatic staff does the same thing in Tel Aviv, the Israeli electorate will be demanding the same sort of punishment. If they can't understand then they are not the sort of allies we want to have.
No sinki dipolmatic staff in Tel Aviv would dare to do what this israeli shit had done in sinki land. Period. No comparison needed.