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No one is bound to legally. But also the passport don't hold any legal grounds in case of Israel.It's not at all clear to me that a "transiting third country" is legally bound to forbid the passport holder from passing through, or to report the matter to Bangladeshi authorities, either.
Countries are discouraged by Bangladeshi Gov. to let someone use it's passport to enter Israel. Simply put as BD requests every nation under international law to let a Bangladeshi who got a visa or proper authorizations to enter their country, BD extends a legal guarantee under it's sovereign rights to that country under international laws. Simply put BD takes all the legal and other responsibilities of that person.
But Bangladesh doesn't extend that legal guarantee towards Israel. So the countries involved fell discouraged to let BD people use their ports to travel Israel. As BD might refuse any responsibility, saying we warned you about Isarel, then why you allowed him to pass? etc.
If you are an UK Diplomat would you want that kind of time wasting? Just usual diplomatic things, one sovereign country respecting other's wish.
Also many countries like UK has policy to discourage situations where a person might end up in legal trouble or may face legal persecution like this one. And very logically so. Cuz as their is no diplomatic relation between Israel and BD, if a BD citizen in Israel were to be deported cuz for any reason, it's 99% likely that he/she will be deported to the country he used, in this case UK, to enter Israel. And in this situation they(UK) might get compelled to grant him/her a refugee status (as he will face legal actions in BD UK law will prohibit such deportation). In this era of anti-immigration sentiments no one want's that kind of hassle.
The situation is so stupid and sad! I lived next to Pakistani/Bangladeshi diplomats! They turned to my parents - pro-Zionist Jewish Americans - for comfort and assistance when their own country and the State Dept. turned their backs to them. Israel was one of the first countries to recognize Bangladesh. But the favors were never returned, the support and pity never acknowledged, as the new state held onto Israel-hatred as a crutch of continuity as everything else crumbled to pieces.
No Bangladeshi/Bengali has any problem with Jews peoples for that matter. I do believe those diplomats didn't fell any kind of reservation to go to an American Jewish for help. We Bangladeshis are very accommodating, amicable and inclusive bunch. We love our leisure and peace, and don't like to get into unnecessary fights. And I am not saying it just for the sake of saying.
But as our the then foreign minister clearly stated, while we appreciate such kind gesture but we are unable to have formal relations with Israel until the Palestine issue is resolved. And that's the opinion of Bangladesh as a nation.
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