Is Israel the only nation allowed to assassinate its enemies, and kill civilians too

Haaretz has published a great article regarding the butched (alleged) assassination attempt by Iranians against Israeli diplomats in other countries.

The assassinations of the Iranian scientists were no less terrorist, let's admit it. Terror is terror, against diplomats exactly like against scientists, even if the latter are developing nuclear weapons. There is no great difference between an attempt to kill a representative of Israel's Defense Ministry and a strike on an Iranian nuclear physicist. There are nuclear physicists in Israel too and if, God forbid, someone tried to assassinate them, that would rightly be considered cruel terror. 

And so anyone who uses these deplorable assassination methods cannot be critical when someone else tries to emulate them. And why should the world denounce Iran's terrorist acts - as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday - and not denounce others? Are there special countries that are allowed to assassinate at will, and others who are not?

Terrorism is terrorism, period. It doesn't matter where it comes from, or who commits it. 

Here people are shocked by attempted assassinations by Arabs or Iranians, but divorce them completely from the context of Israeli assassinations. How did a columnist in Israel Hayom put it this week? "Attacking Israel is in their DNA." Theirs? And what about us? The writer forgot, and made us forget, our DNA. It, too, supports assassinations, including sometimes of the innocent.Assassinations of Palestinians have scaled down in recent years and have been carried out mainly in Gaza, and so the hit lists of the Shin Bet security service and the Israel Defense Forces are now shorter. That's a good thing.But according to the data of the human rights group B'Tselem, Israel targeted and killed no less than 232 Palestinians in the territories between the beginning of the second intifada and Operation Cast Lead, a period of about eight years. During those attacks,approximately 150 innocent bystanders were killed, including women and children.

So, how about those 150 bystanders? Is anybody going to say that they didn't deserve to die? Or only Israeli people count?  Some will tell me, "in war people die". Yes, but they don't take into account that people from both sides die. They only mourn those they like.

That's why I abhor Christian Zionism, and call it a heresy. They think that by supporting Israel, even in their terrorist acts, they are doing God's will. I guess that the second commandment is not in their Bibles, and the loving of enemies is not in their Bible either. But they would say, as they usually do, "you are confusion politics with religion". Well, tell that to the Zionists in Israel, and don't tell it to me. But then again, they are extremely selective at how they also apply that rule too.

Terrorism is terrorism, period.