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Tables Turn on Israel
by staff report via troy - CommonDreams Monday, Feb 13 2012, 6:36am
international / peace/war / other press

Israelis targeted for assassination, 'what goes around comes around!'

It seems that people have finally woken to the fact that they are able to return like for like, or assassination for assassination! Israel's Mossad was labouring under the very arrogant misapprehension that it could murder whomsoever it liked with impunity or minimal repercussions -- NOT SO -- the World seems to have tired of certain nations summarily executing anyone they please, so to make a point, offended nations and groups are responding in kind. Puppet politicians may be next, which would make corrupt politician the most dangerous job in existence!

Bombings Target Israelis in Both India and Georgia

Members of Israel's foreign service were targeted in separate incidents on Monday. A car bomb exploded in New Delhi, India injuring a diplomat and two other people. Nearly simultaneously, according to reports, a car bomb was discovered in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. That bomb was defused by security personnel.

Al-Jazeera reports:

The van in New Delhi, which was parked down the street from the Israeli embassy in a high security area of the capital, was shown in flames on Indian television on Monday.

Three people were injured when the car exploded, police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told the AFP news agency, adding there were no details about their condition.

David Goldfarb, Israeli embassy spokesman, said that one of the occupants in the car was an Israeli diplomat, but declined to identify him.

A photograph on NDTV showed the Toyota station wagon engulfed in flames in the middle of the road. Later television footage showed the vehicle burnt out and the area cordoned off by police. [...]

Shota Uitashvili, spokesman for the Georgian Interior Ministry, said the car in Tbilisi was in a car park about 200 metres from the embassy, where the driver had parked it in the morning after coming from his home.

Israel Quick to Accuse Iran

From the Associated Press:

Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of lawmakers from his Likud Party on Monday that he believed the Iranians were responsible for the attacks in New Delhi and Tbilisi. [...]

Netanyahu said Israel has thwarted other attacks in recent months in Azerbaijan, Thailand and elsewhere.

"In all those cases, the elements behind these attacks were Iran and its protege Hezbollah," he said.

Iran has accused Israel of involvement in a series of killings of officials and scientists involved in its controversial nuclear program.

And Harriet Sherwood, writing for The Guardian, adds:

The foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, was reported as saying that Israel would identify those responsible for the blasts and would not tolerate attacks on targets inside or outside Israel.

The incidents came the day after the anniversary of the death of Imad Mughniyah, a senior Hezbollah figure who was killed when his car exploded in 2008. Hezbollah accused Israel of being responsible for the blast.

Israeli officials have also warned of the threat to embassies and other targets from Iran or its allies.

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