"Israel faces security challenges abroad; Debate follows killing of Jews in India attacks" by Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times | December 2, 2008
JERUSALEM - It sounds like a counterterrorism official's worst-case scenario: how to protect a global network of lightly guarded, at best, sites, all filled with unarmed civilians and publicly identified as prime targets.
Except for Nariman House!
That's the situation being debated in Israel following last week's terrorist rampage in Mumbai, India. Among the targets was the local Chabad House, a hostel and religious center run by a New York-based ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect that operates hundreds of such centers.
"It's clear that we don't want our Chabad Houses to turn into barricaded forts," said Rabbi Menachem Brod, official Chabad spokesman in Israel. "The whole idea of Chabad is that we are open and accessible to Jews traveling abroad." The concern has left Israeli officials fending off charges that they should do more to protect the buildings, which serve as unofficial embassies for ultra-Orthodox Jews traveling abroad....
Or OPERATIONS CENTERS when the need arises.
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Official Israeli government buildings, including embassies, consulates, and cultural centers, have been on heightened alert for most of this year following the February assassination in Syria of Imad Mugniyeh, a military commander with Hezbollah. Israeli officials denied involvement but have braced for a reprisal by militant Islamists - amid speculation that the attackers would choose an overseas target tied to Israel....
Yeah, Israel is supposed to be able to assassinate with impunity, dammit!
According to multiple accounts, it took two gunmen to seize control of the five-story building. Among the eight bodies found inside after Indian commandos retook the building were Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka, the couple who founded the Mumbai Chabad center. Some of the victims were Israeli citizens.
"You can't expect a rabbi and his young wife to defend against terrorists," said Eli Karmon, a senior researcher at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, based in the Israeli city of Herzliya.
Karmon pointed out that a security guard or two outside the Chabad house might not have made a difference in the face of a well-planned attack. He noted that the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, which had private security, fell just as easily to the gunmen.
Perhaps more disturbing than the attack to many Israelis was the prospect that a new terrorist template had been laid out - with Chabad Houses and other soft Jewish targets in the crosshairs. It is a possibility that has "staggering ramifications," according to Israeli journalist and analyst Ofer Shelah.
Oh no!!! Now we are going to be fed FALSE-FLAG ATTACKS on JEWS for the unforeseeable future! Yup, the POOR, SET-UPON, JEWS who never did anything to anybody (except grind down and genocide Palestinians).
"What is clear is that Israeli sites, or at least sites that are connected to Israel, have become targets - be they primary or secondary - for the loose network of global jihad," Shelah wrote in the Israeli newspaper Maariv. A report in the Times of India on Sunday said that the sole surviving gunman told Indian police that the attackers had specifically targeted the Chabad House with the goal of killing Israelis.
The report could not be independently confirmed. Well, THAT is a LIE!! Or else, WHY DIDN'T the ZIONIST MSM report it as such from the BEGINNING? They said BRITS or AMERICANS!!! Just ANOTHER EXAMPLE of JEWS REWRITING HISTORY, 'eh?
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, in his weekly address to the Cabinet, said his government "is doing, and will continue to do, everywhere, what needs to be done to protect Jewish institutions insofar as the matter depends on us and is possible."
But Ephraim Halevy, former head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency, said the Jewish state is heavily restricted in just what kind of protection it can offer nongovernmental institutions when they are in other countries. --more--"Yeah, Mossad said, yup. Grain of salt, please.
