ANOTHER CRUSADING JUDGE in Spain:

A Spanish judge decided on Monday to go ahead with a probe into alleged crimes against humanity by top Israeli military figures over an air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed 15 people.

Last month public prosecutors advised National Court judge Fernando Andreu to shelve the case on the grounds that the attack, which killed a suspected leader of the Islamist movement Hamas, Salah Shehadeh, had been under investigation by Israel.

Meanwhile:

Ambassador to Spain Rafi Shotz came under an anti-Semitic verbal barrage when he and his wife walked home from Real Madrid's Santiago Bernabéu Stadium on Saturday.