Hamas Hit

There has been a recent news furor over the killing of the leader of Hamas' paramilitary wing. He was assassinated by approximately 11 people in his Dubai hotel room. There is little doubt that the hit was ordered and carried out by Mossad, Israel's version of the CIA and Delta Force rolled into one.
Mossad has been known to carry out assassinations of Palestinian militants before, but this time they used passports from other countries. UK, Irish, French (and maybe more, I don't precisely recall) passports were used by the hit squad. More importantly, these were real passports who belonged to real people (including some Israelis). How's that for identity theft! Imagine waking up one morning and discovering that you're wanted by INTERPOL for an assassination in the UAE.
The international commentary has been mostly negative. But most of the condemnation has been limited to the identity theft, not the actual assassination. So far as I can tell, only France, Iran (of course) and the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings (read: assassination czar) have actually condemned the assassination.

This brings up an interesting question: should Israel's assassination of Palestinian militants be condemned? I think there's little question that the identity theft is bad, but I wonder if this would even make big news if the identity theft had not been discovered, or had not occurred. The United States has banned assassinations by employees of the government. Should assassinations be brought back? I think there's a strong case to be made that they should.