Vengeance is a Hebrew word, after all

The International Herald Tribune has an article from the AP on the killings in India:

Israelis already familiar with the threat of attack came to grips with new vulnerability, as at least seven Israeli families prepared to bury loved ones slain at a Jewish center tucked quietly at the end of an alley in faraway India.
Israel's Foreign Ministry said nine people - most Israelis, some dual citizens - were killed in an attack on a Jewish center in Mumbai last week, part of a spectacular assault on symbols of luxury and foreign appeal across the city. Indian commandos stormed the building Friday, but none of the hostages were found alive.
Two of the victims, a rabbi and his wife, ran the five-story center. Others were visitors drawn - like many Jews who travel abroad - by the hope of finding a touch of home. The rabbi, Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, and his 28-year-old Israeli wife, Rivka, were members of an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sect, Chabad-Lubavitch, based in New York. The sect has thousands of outreach envoys on missions all over the world. The two were sent on a mission to provide Jewish businesspeople and backpackers "with a kosher place to eat, a warm place to visit, put on phylacteries, hear a sermon, or receive a blessing from a rabbi," said Rivka Holtzberg's brother, Shmulik Rosenberg. Israelis living in the sprawling city were like family at the center, where Rivka would cook for dozens of visitors, he said.
"She went with courage to this mission in India," he added. "She had no fear." Neither did her husband, he said. The Holtzbergs will be flown to Israel for burial, Rosenberg said. A Chabad spokesman said they most likely would be buried Monday. The couple's toddler son, Moshe, who celebrated his second birthday Saturday, was spirited out of the five-story building by a center employee, unharmed but his pants soaked with blood. Another son, who was ailing, was in Israel at the time.
By late Saturday, three other victims at the Chabad center, Nariman House, besides the Holtzbergs had been positively identified: Bentzion Chroman, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, a US citizen who lived in Jerusalem, and an Israeli tourist, Yocheved Orpaz. Israeli news media reported that the victims were found wrapped in prayer shawls, in accordance with Jewish burial tradition. The media speculated that one of the hostages wrapped the bodies before he was killed.
At the Chabad sect's center in Israel, Kfar Chabad, Sabbath began before the hostages were confirmed dead. Orthodox Jews are forbidden to use telephones or other electrical devices until the Sabbath ends at sundown Saturday. On Friday night, worshippers recited the Book of Psalms, prayers Jews sometimes recite in the hope of averting tragedy. But, when the Sabbath ended, their worst fears were confirmed. "Chabad is one big family," said Moni Ender, spokesman for the group. "We all know everyone, so it is a terrible, intimate and profound loss."
A 17-year-old seminary student at Kfar Chabad, Chezky Vogel, said the brutality of the attack shocked him. "That such a thing could happen in a place like this - you feel very vulnerable," Vogel said.
The attack on the Chabad house in Mumbai was the top story in all the Israeli news media Saturday night. Major Israeli networks dispatched reporters to Mumbai. Dozens of attacks on Jewish sites inside Israel and across the globe, like the deadly bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires in 1994, have given a unique perspective to Jews, including those in Israel, the only Jewish state. They see themselves as a continuing target for attacks of this kind, and Israeli officials said the assault on Nariman House was no coincidence.
"The fact that the attack took place at the Chabad house is the clearest sign that the attack was directed against Jews and Israelis," Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Friday.
On the streets of Jerusalem, residents were aghast at the crime but accustomed to the pattern. "It was a horrendous and horrible perpetration of malice and barbarism," Michael Bregman, 42, of Jerusalem said. But "it comes as no surprise" because militant groups have announced they are "going to target Jews wherever they are," he added.

Rico says they're easy targets, the Jews, but the Israelis have a way of taking revenge, however long it takes. (Remember the Wrath of God operation against the Palestinian terrorists? Years after Munich...)