> this case makes me wonder if political assassinations also occur in Western politics
I think you mean:
* he helped capture and execute two soldiers
I'm not sure why one person working in military/intelligence being killed is a "political assassination" while the other one being killed is not.
Well if that's not good enough, here's another Mossad piece of work, a Moroccan waiter with no political involvement at all gunned down by the Mossad in Norway - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
Capture is fine. Summary execution of POWs is a war crime.
> I'm not sure why one person working in military/intelligence being killed is a "political assassination" while the other one being killed is not.
My point is: neither one was a political assassination.
> Well if that's not good enough, here's another Mossad piece of work, a Moroccan waiter with no political involvement at all gunned down by the Mossad in Norway - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
Again, not a political assassination (as you said, he had no political involvement). That's an outright fuckup.