Israel would be smart to vigorously try to repair the diplomatic damage that they have caused. It is irrelevant whether Mossad was involved because the Israeli opposition leader has commended whomever did this.

Who else would have committed this assassination but the Israelis?

They might find themself on their own without any friends very soon.

You want to exclude the FACT that at the time of this comment, and yours, there's no direct proof Israel had anything to do with it but still you're running with that train of thought that they did it but I can't comment on the dead guy?. Rightio, so this is another Jew bashing thread then?. At least we're clear on the ROE.

Australia's involvement?.

Quote from the Wall St Journal:

"At this stage, Australian officials have no information to suggest the three Australian passport holders were involved in any way, other than as victims of passport or identity fraud," Foreign Minister Stephen Smith told Parliament. "Preliminary analysis by the [Australian Federal Police], together with the Australian passport office, shows that the three Australian passports appear to have been duplicated or altered."

Maybe that might put your mind at ease just a little for fear of invasion of our beardy nutter brethren of the north?.

'Israel would be smart to vigorously try to repair the diplomatic damage that they have caused'

Why? They've never bothered before. Haven't they ignored every UN resolution or had it vetoed by the US. Law unto themselves they are. Though so is Hamas.

Israel, Palestine, meh. It's an argument about as resolvable as the god botherer threads.

In the end, I go for palestine as I'm anti-authoritarian and love the underdog, and hate people trading on past injustices. Race card, Jew card, gender card. It riles me. Probably because I haven't got any of those cards.

"Race card, Jew card, gender card. It riles me."

So far there's 29 mentions of Israel in this thread from 9 comments where the general theme is blame and sanctions without ANY concrete proof they did it. Make that 30. 'CTRL-F' it.

From examinator:

"...Israel need[s] to understand there are limits to rogue actions"

In a legal sense this thread is slander until there's proof they did it.

seems like people are wetting their pants in excitement because they believe they have something on Israel. Recently our National Broadcasters have been exposed rushing to lies when reporting events in the Middle East. It might be a little wise to take a breadth.

StG, I'm talking generally. I kinda like the James bond assassination action even if Israel had nothing to do with it. Beats a cluster bomb any day. Anyway, there's nothing wrong with hypotheticals.

runner,

If only I cared so much. I do agree with you though that you'll probably find the ABC and the typical OLO enthusiast is likely to get a hard on for Hamas.