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Crowds of Muslims celebrated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidential election victory Sunday evening at the Temple Mount, chanting “Khyber, Khyber al-Yehud” – an explicit call for the massacre of Jews as occurred in the Khyber battle in 629.

According to Israeli journalist Yoni ben Menachem, public Islamic figures from eastern Jerusalem have helped Erdogan’s election campaign in recent weeks.

הר הבית- חגיגות שמחה עם היוודע דבר ניצחונו של ארדואן בבחירות בטורקיה.
‘ח’יבר, ח’יבר יא יהוד”, קוראים בקהל.

אישי ציבור ממזרח ירושלים סייעו לקמפיין הבחירות של ארדואן בשבועות האחרונים. pic.twitter.com/uSQCSiS4Or

— יוני בן מנחם yoni ben menachem (@yonibmen) May 29, 2023

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The US Navy’s “Blue Angel” fighter jet squadron are scheduled to “perform” at Duluth, Minnesota’s military air show on July 15/16, 2023. The economic and environmental costs of such pro-military propaganda stunts that heavily contribute to …

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A new film offers a visually attractive, fair-minded, and substantial introduction to the lost world of Irish Communism, and the vision of a more just future that Irish Communists sought to create.

Connolly Youth Movement flags raised in Dublin on a day of national protest against the privatization of water in Ireland, September 17, 2016. (Azzy O’Connor / Wikimedia Commons)

When I speak of scientific socialism I speak in terms of bringing about a revolution, bringing about the workers’ republic which Connolly spoke to us about. A workers’ republic to us means one thing and one thing only, the economic domination, the ownership of every factory, mill, and mine in this country, by the working people.

Gliding over the frosty rooftops of a wintry north Dublin suburb, as the voices of the Red Army Choir swell from hushed tones to their full, bombastic chorus, the camera descends into a garden inhabited by a trampoline, basketball hoop, and, at its center, a six-foot marble bust of Lenin. A sharp cut to stock footage of Brezhnev-era Red Square, and to our red-clad, beret-sporting narrator Daracha Nic Philibín, accompanies a tonal shift, as the Alexandrov Ensemble gives way to the synthetic beats of modern-day Belarussian post-punk outfit Molchat Doma. “It’s easy to forget, as we look back at the closing years of the twentieth century, that competing ideologies still remained about how life should be organized.”

Reds! na hÉireann, a new Irish-language TV film on the inner lives of the later-twentieth century Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) from director Kevin Brannigan, evokes in its opening vignette the dynamic medley of contrasts that defined the experience of the Irish Communists, south and north. A montage of the global Cold War — when “revolutionary left-wing groups emerged . . . even here in Ireland” — culminates in grainy film of a rainy Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) march against the Vietnam War, with the Marxist grouping’s namesake depicted on a banner reading: “For Peace and Socialism.”

Looking back on these events from the far side of the “End of History,” Reds! frames its subject from the offset as indelibly rooted in the prelapsarian era before the definitive, disillusioning collapse of Soviet socialism. Pairing kitschy Soviet aesthetics with futuristic electronic scores, and black-and-white footage of idealistic young faces in packed meetings with present-day, high-definition interviews in old cadres’ sleepy homes, the film’s stylized, multimedia impression of the Irish Communist experience conjures a resonant sense of nostalgia for a lost alternative modernism.

Communism and Ireland

Reds! is a snappily constructed, engaging panorama, leading viewers along the — for many, likely unfamiliar — social and cultural tracks of Communist politics in the Ireland of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. All manner of historical materials are drawn upon, including a wealth of remarkable footage of CPI and CYM meetings sourced, Brannigan tells me, from “deep in the RTE [Ireland’s public broadcaster] archive” (likely unseen since original broadcast in the late 1960s). Periodic narration gives loose structure to this collage, offering viewers new to this history a handrail throughout, but for the most part, the film’s titular reds are allowed to speak for themselves — primarily via extended, intercutting interviews with eleven stalwarts of the contemporary CPI.

The Communist Party of Ireland (the third historical organization to claim that title) was, the film explains, formed in 1970 following the merger of the Irish Workers’ Party and Communist Party of Northern Ireland, as “an all-Ireland party” — with concentrations in Dublin and Belfast, and other branches throughout the island.

The organizational history of the CPI otherwise receives little discussion, but the significance of a sense of history among these young cadres is obvious throughout. White-bearded party longtimer Sean Edwards, interviewed from a living room festooned with republican, communist, and Spanish Civil War memorabilia, explains: “We forged a dream of Irish socialism from our own history, and our own struggle.” Alongside Lenin, the figure of James Connolly looms large within these Communists’ iconography. Through wonderful footage of the CYM headquarters in Pembroke Lane, Dublin, we see giant canvases being painted of Connolly and Lenin, with the walls adorned by North Vietnamese Army (NVA) flags and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh.

A strong pedagogical culture within the CPI’s youth wing stands out. As RTE footage pans over bookshelves lined with editions of Lenin, Engels, Connolly, and Eurocommunism: Myth or Reality?, present-day interviewee Mick O’Reilly — seen in the recording as a young man, addressing a room of late-’60s haircuts on “Connolly’s Marxist teachings” — explains: “The one thing about the Communist movement and the Connolly Youth Movement and all of that was reading.” Another cadre concurs, recalling that where some “went to TCD [Trinity College Dublin ] or UCD [University College Dublin] . . . we went to the CYM for our education.”

The relationship of the Communist Party to Irish republicanism receives some discussion, though is perhaps not as prominent a theme here as one might have expected. Philadelphia-born former nun Helena Sheehan (author of the well-known Marxism and the Philosophy of Science) and Eoin Ó Murchú were both members of Official Sinn Fein before finding “a new home with the Communist Party,” following internecine splits and the murders of Billy McMillen and Seamus Costello.

Recollections of the path to Communist politics by former cadres hailing from ostensibly nationalist west and loyalist east Belfast bolster the claim of one interviewee that, in the Six Counties, the CPI “was a nonsectarian space in the middle of a sectarian conflict . . . a really precious thing in terms of Northern Ireland.” Beyond this, however, there is relatively little discussion of how Communists in Northern Ireland confronted the problem of sectarianism among the broader working class, or of the heated contemporary debates over the national question and so-called Two Nations Theory. This is consonant with the film’s general focus, primarily interested not so much in the specificities of CPI high politics as in the zeitgeist of what it meant to be a young Communist in contemporary Ireland.

Raphael Samuel, recalling his youth in the Communist Party of Great Britain, wrote that “[to] be a Communist was to have a complete social identity, one which transcended the limits of class, gender, and nationality. . . . [W]e lived in a little private world of our own.” This element of the Communist subcultural experience is a strong feature throughout Reds!; one interviewee, having joined the Communist Party in Sheffield, found that upon moving to late-’60s Belfast that “there were ready-made friends here within the Communist Party, you know.”

Through contemporary footage, photos, and descriptions, we get a picture of the meetings, marches, “Party bazaars,” and other get-togethers where Irish Communists congregated, families in tow. For Belfast poet Sinead Morrissey, the youngest interviewee, Communism was “a very familial affair as well because it was the party that had brought my parents together.” Morrissey’s bittersweet recollections of her “communist childhood,” and of the “really clearly defined spaces where this world unfolded . . . where I felt I really belonged,” give valuable dimension to the daily lived reality of these reds: “I just remember posters of Marx, and I remember everybody smoked . . .”

Post-Soviet Melancholia

The emotional relationship of these Irish Communists to contemporary Eastern Europe occupies the final third of the film. The CPI was generally close to Moscow, with many of its cadres, we learn, often venturing to the Eastern Bloc for party congresses or family holidays. “There was always a welcome for us in Moscow.”

Reds! paints an interesting picture of these Irish cadres’ reception of repression and reform in the Soviet bloc, up to its terminal crisis in 1989–91. The Warsaw Pact suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968, O’Reilly (who eventually left the CPI for the Eurocommunist Irish Marxist Society) recalled, was “a disgrace . . . condemned by the Communist Party here in Ireland” — but one that “started a split that lasted for years,” and in his view “poisoned everything.”

On this, and into the years of perestroika, most interviewees speaking on the subject identify themselves as having been increasingly critical of the unfreedoms and corruption in the Eastern Bloc, and supportive of reform initiatives. We don’t really hear from the pro-Soviet hard-liners they reference having contended with at the time.

Forthright narration and contemporary RTE footage of discontent and demonstrations as these governments flagged offer a correctly negative diagnosis of the political systems of Eastern Europe in which the Communist Party leadership of the 1980s still maintained illusions. Despite this, the film’s concluding treatment of the collapse of the USSR, and our protagonists’ contemporary responses, is ambiguous and affecting.

Testimony recalling dashed hopes that the Soviet system could have been reformed into “a better form of socialism, a more democratic form of socialism,” the collapse in Belfast of Sinead Morrissey’s “childhood family,” and the lamentation in hindsight of the subsequent epoch of untrammeled capitalist triumphalism worldwide, all help communicate to the audience a palpable sense of loss.

It might be said that the film’s considerable focus on the course of the Soviet Union’s dissolution comes at the expense of greater engagement with the political and social conditions faced by the Communist Party in contemporary Ireland. This editorial decision probably owes in part to the nature of the program, as a film primarily aimed at Irish audiences about Communism, rather than at established left-wing audiences about Ireland.

That said, there is no question that Reds! has a great deal to offer international audiences interested in the place of Communist politics within the Ireland of the Troubles. This is a real example of serious historical filmmaking, drawing creatively upon diverse original and historical source materials to proffer a visually attractive, fair-minded, and substantial introduction to the lost world of Irish Communism.

In a plea bargain, a Palestinian who attacked and tried to steal a soldier’s weapon will likely be treated like a petty thief, outraging the victim.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

In a plea bargain deal presented in Israeli military court last week, a Palestinian who attacked an IDF soldier at a bus stop during last year’s Operation Guardian of the Walls may be sentenced to only a few years in prison, outraging the victim, Hebrew-language Ynet and Channel 14 reported Sunday.

Yossi Amar, a sergeant in the prestigious Kfir infantry brigade, has since completed his military service but attended the court session in which the prosecutor offered the deal for the judges’ consideration: Amr al Khatib would get 40 months’ imprisonment and pay NIS 8,000 in compensation to Amar for having injured him lightly.

Amar angrily rejected the proposal.

“In addition to the crime of attempting to steal a weapon, he should have been charged and convicted of attempted murder as a terror incident in every way,” he said. “Instead, they converted the main charge to attempted robbery, as if it were a criminal act. The terrorist should have been sent to prison for 15 years, and instead he will be free in a year and a half after deducting a third [for good behavior], and I’ll be able to see him again on the street.”

Amar said that the investigation after his arrest revealed that al Khatib had a nationalist motivation for the attack. Although the soldier merely suffered bloody scratches and sprained fingers, he told the judges at the hearing that upon his release from the army, he was downgraded as being 71% disabled and must now pay significant fees for the medical procedures he is still undergoing.

“It was a life or death battle with him,” he told the judges. “To this day, it is difficult for me mentally. I have both physical and psychological scars, and so I feel abandoned. As one who served the country in Judea and Samaria, contributed his time in Shechem (Nablus) and Gush Etzion and prevented a terrible terror attack with his own body, I feel like they are cheapening what I did.”

The 27-year-old Al-Khatib, who hails from the Hizme village near Jerusalem, expressed remorse at the hearing.

“I was young and unaware at the time; it was [a] momentary and spontaneous [act],” he said. “My mother is sick and I need to help her. I am sorry for what happened and ask for the victim’s forgiveness.”

The military prosecutor said that a mediating justice suggested the light sentence based on the fact that the defendant “has a clean record, and he cooperated and took responsibility. He admitted guilt and saved judicial time,” and “]his act was not premeditated, he did it alone and did not use cold or hot weapons with the exception of pepper spray.”

Amar described the incident to Ynet 10 days after the attack occurred at a relatively isolated bus stop near his training camp between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea.

“I was standing at the bus stop with my weapon hanging crosswise on my body, and I didn’t see him approaching,” he said of Al-Khatib, who had noticed the soldier while driving and parked his car to get at him. “Suddenly he sprayed me with pepper spray, right at my eyes. It was surprising, but within a second I realized it was an attack. He tried to grab my weapon. I saw almost nothing, but I started to fight him. I pinned him to the floor with my forearm and started choking him with my strong hand…. At the same time, I punched him from the side, but he didn’t give up.”

Al-Khatib passed out momentarily, but then recovered and started running away towards some sand dunes, the soldier continued. He couldn’t use his M-16 because his cartridge had fallen and broken during the initial scuffle, so he ran after the terrorist even though he could still barely see. “I caught him and the fight resumed, with my hitting him with the weapon exactly as they taught us in the army in Krav Maga (hand-to-hand combat).”

The terrorist kept trying to grab the weapon, but knowing there were civilians a few hundred meters away at a more central bus stop, Amar said he “knew that if he succeeded, it would end badly, so I kept hitting him in the back and head.” Finally, a Border Police officer stumbled on the scene and helped him subdue Al-Khatib once and for all.

Amar’s brigade commander praised the soldier’s resourcefulness and determination at the time, saying that he “prevented a severe terror attack with his own two hands.” Amar received a certificate of appreciation from his commanders, and his story was publicized in many combat units as an example of the behavior of a fighter who doesn’t give up even if he is surprised and who doesn’t stop until the terrorist is neutralized.

The military judge in charge of the case has yet to decide whether to accept the suggested deal or not.

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The regime reportedly called for Taurus projectiles with a range of 500km, which are enough to successfully attack the Russian capital.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant signed off on the move, infuriating members of the Opposition.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

In an operation reminiscent of pre-State settlers’ overnight construction of Tower and Stockade settlements, Jewish civilians rebuilt the Homesh yeshiva Sunday night, angering opponents.

On May 20, the head of the IDF’s Central Command signed off on permission for Jews to enter Homesh and annex it to the Samaria regional council. This followed the Knesset’s repeal two months ago of the Disengagement Law as it pertained to the four villages that were forcibly evacuated in 2005 in northern Samaria.

While Sa-Nur, Ganim and Kadim have always remained empty, there waws a yeshiva in Homesh already before the Disengagement, and its students soon came back to study there in temporary accommodations that were periodically destroyed by the army over the ensuing years.

Israel’s High Court of Justice had ruled that the yeshiva was illegal, as it allegedly stood on private Palestinian property.

The only permission granted towards the actual reconstruction of the yeshiva was to plan new buildings there, on paper. The Biden administration strongly objected to the rebuilding of the settlement itself, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Washington that this would not happen.

Before dawn Monday, students and volunteers set up the study hall in new mobile homes several hundred meters from its original location on land legally designated for construction. The yeshiva stressed that it was done legally, as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant had given them the go-ahead.

As Judea and Samaria are formally under military law, any building there requires the permission of the Defense Ministry.

This did not sit well with Labour party head Merav Michaeli, who slammed Gallant for giving a “gift” to “moonstruck settlers and their destructive whims” that “come at the expense of Israel’s security, its future and its democracy.”

The defense minister “proved that he doesn’t care about the hundreds of thousands who supported him after he was fired,” she charged. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked Gallant after he spoke in opposition to the government’s planned judicial reform but backtracked a few weeks later after mass protests broke out over the decision.

Some security officials reportedly objected to the move, preferring that a more permanent structure be built only after all the formal planning procedures were completed and final approval received.

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan affixed a mezuzah to the door of the yeshiva to mark its official opening. He called it “a historic moment… one of the steps that will correct the terrible wrong of the expulsion of Homesh” and the other three Jewish villages of the region. The opponents of the Disengagement had never stopped working to reverse this wrong, he said, calling it “a mark of Cain” on the State of Israel.

He told Ynet Radio on Monday that the undertaking was “a big celebration,” even though “it’s a shame” that it had to be done “in the dead of night.”

According to Dagan, “The next step will be to submit a TAMA (zoning and development plan) and regulate the place as a settlement. Let there be no doubt, we will fully build Homesh, it will be a city in Israel, and will be followed by Sa-Nur, Ganim and Kadim. There is justice in the world; even if it takes time, it does occur.”

Donors from across the country as well as overseas funded the new buildings.

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If forced to “pick a side”, most countries may end up “decoupling” from the US instead.

Erdogan has retained the backing of conservative voters who remain devoted to him for lifting Islam’s profile in Turkey.

By Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won reelection Sunday, extending his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade as the country reels from high inflation and the aftermath of an earthquake that leveled entire cities.

A third term gives Erdogan, an even stronger hand domestically and internationally, and the election results will have implications far beyond the capital of Ankara. Turkey stands at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, and it plays a key role in NATO.

With more than 99% of ballot boxes opened, unofficial results from competing news agencies showed Erdogan with 52% of the vote, compared with 48% for his challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. The head of Turkey’s electoral board confirmed the victory, saying that even after accounting for outstanding votes, the result was another term for Erdogan.

In two speeches — one in Istanbul and one in Ankara — Erdogan thanked the nation for entrusting him with the presidency for five more years.

“We hope to be worthy of your trust, as we have been for 21 years,” he told supporters on a campaign bus outside his home in Istanbul in his first comments after the results emerged.

He ridiculed his challenger for his loss, saying “bye bye bye, Kemal,” as supporters booed. He said the divisions of the election are now over, but he continued to rail against his opponent as well as the former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish party who has been imprisoned for years over alleged links to terrorism.

“The only winner today is Turkey,” Erdogan said to hundreds of thousands gathered outside the presidential palace in Ankara, promising to work hard for Turkey’s second century, which he calls the “Turkish century.” The country marks its centennial this year.

Kilicdaroglu campaigned on promises to reverse Erdogan’s democratic backsliding, to restore the economy by reverting to more conventional policies and to improve ties with the West. He said the election was “the most unjust ever,” with all state resources mobilized for Erdogan.

“We will continue to be at the forefront of this struggle until real democracy comes to our country,” he said in Ankara. He thanked the more than 25 million people who voted for him and asked them to “remain upright.”

The people have shown their will “to change an authoritarian government despite all the pressures,” he said.

Supporters of Erdogan took to the streets to celebrate, waving Turkish or ruling party flags, honking car horns and chanting his name. Celebratory gunfire was heard in several Istanbul neighborhoods.

Erdogan’s government vetoed Sweden’s bid to join NATO and purchased Russian missile-defense systems, which prompted the United States to oust Turkey from a U.S.-led fighter-jet project. But Turkey also helped broker a crucial deal that allowed Ukrainian grain shipments and averted a global food crisis.

“No one can look down on our nation,” Erdogan said in Istanbul.

Steven A. Cook, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, said Turkey was likely to “move the goal post” on Sweden’s membership in NATO as it seeks demands from the United States.

He also said Erdogan, who has spoken about introducing a new constitution, was likely to make an even greater push for it to lock in changes overseen by his conservative and religious Justice and Development Party, or AKP.

Erdogan, who has been at Turkey’s helm for 20 years, came just short of victory in the first round of elections on May 14. It was the first time he failed to win an election outright, but he made up for it Sunday.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog was among several world leaders who congratulated Erdogan.

“Congratulations to President @RTErdogan of Türkiye on his election victory. I am convinced that we will continue to work together to strengthen and expand the good ties between Türkiye and Israel,” Herzog tweeted on Sunday evening.

Congratulations to President @RTErdogan of Türkiye on his election victory. I am convinced that we will continue to work together to strengthen and expand the good ties between Türkiye and Israel.

— יצחק הרצוג Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) May 28, 2023

In March 2022, Herzog became the first Israeli official to visit Turkey since 2008.

“Israel-Turkey relations are important for Israel, important for Turkey, and important for the whole region. And for the first time in many years, there will be a visit to Turkey,” Herzog said before taking off. He was received warmly it Ankara, where he and First Lady Michal Herzog were met with the playing of Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Erdogan’s victory was “clear evidence” that the Turkish people support his efforts to “strengthen state sovereignty and pursue an independent foreign policy.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was counting on building the partnership between the two countries and strengthening cooperation “for the security and stability of Europe.”

U.S. President Joe Biden said he looked forward “to continuing to work together as NATO allies on bilateral issues and shared global challenges.”

The two Turkish candidates offered sharply different visions of the country’s future, and its recent past.

Critics blame Erdogan’s unconventional economic policies for skyrocketing inflation that has fueled a cost-of-living crisis. Many also faulted his government for a slow response to the earthquake that killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey.

In his victory remarks, Erdogan said rebuilding the quake-struck cities would be his priority, and he said a million Syrian refugees would go back to Turkish-controlled “safe zones” in Syria as part of a resettlement project being run with Qatar.

Erdogan, a 69-year-old Muslim, is set to remain in power until 2028. He has retained the backing of conservative voters who remain devoted to him for lifting Islam’s profile in Turkey, which was founded on secular principles, and for raising the country’s influence in world politics.

The first half of Erdogan’s tenure included reforms that allowed the country to begin talks to join the European Union, and economic growth that lifted many out of poverty. But he later moved to suppress freedoms and the media and concentrated more power in his own hands, especially after a failed coup attempt that Turkey says was orchestrated by the U.S.-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen. The cleric denies involvement.

In Kurdish-majority Diyarbakir, 37-year-old metalworker Ahmet Koyun said everyone would have to accept the results.

“It is sad on behalf of our people that a government with such corruption, such stains, has come into power again. Mr. Kemal would have been great for our country, at least for a change of scene,” he said.

Sunday also marked the 10th anniversary of the start of mass anti-government protests that broke out over plans to uproot trees in Istanbul’s Gezi Park. The demonstrations became one of the most serious challenges to Erdogan’s government.

Erdogan’s response to the protests, in which eight people were convicted, was a harbinger of a crackdown on civil society and freedom of expression.

Erdogan and pro-government media portrayed Kilicdaroglu, who received the backing of the country’s pro-Kurdish party, as colluding with “terrorists” and of supporting what they described as “deviant” LGBTQ rights.

In his victory speech, he repeated those themes, saying LGBTQ people cannot “infiltrate” his ruling party or its nationalist allies.

World Israel News contributed to this report.

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“There are no more red lines,” says senior police officer after Arab crime boss’ son and his bodyguard wounded in assassination attempt.

By World Israel News Staff

A five-year-old boy and his bodyguard were left wounded after they were intentionally targeted in a gang hit last Friday morning as clashes between warring crime families in Israel reached a fever pitch.

The boy, whose father is the head of a prominent Arab crime family based in the northern city of Umm Al-Fahm, was ambushed by members of a rival mafia.

The child’s bodyguard, who had been hired by his father just days before the attempted murder, moved to shield the child when the assailants opened fire.

According to a Mako report, both the boy and his bodyguard were wounded in the shooting; the child was only moderately hurt and is expected to make a full recovery. The bodyguard is currently hospitalized in serious condition.

“I don’t want to imagine what would have happened here if this child had been killed. There would have been crazy [retaliation], a bloodbath,” a senior police officer, speaking anonymously, told Mako.

“There are no red lines today [when it comes to mafia activity.] Now, the children of senior criminals are also in the crosshairs.”

Over the weekend, the suspected perpetrators of the attack were arrested in a joint operation between local police in the Northern District and security officers from a Border Police unit.

Authorities detained the three men, all residents of the nearby Arab town of Arara, and seized an M-16 rifle and a Glock pistol they believe were used during the assassination attempt.

Ammunition and a motorcycle, which may have also been used during the incident, were also confiscated.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir recently pledged to wage “total war” on organized crime, particularly within Israel’s peripheral Negev and Galilee regions. Murders within Israel’s Arab towns and cities have reached a record high since the beginning of the year, with at least 80 members of the community murdered so far in 2023.

Many of those killings took place within the context of ongoing disputes between crime families, with a smaller number of those murdered being victims of domestic violence and honor killings.

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While the world has been watching the “no limits” partnership between Russia and China grow into “a relationship that probably cannot be compared with anything in the world,” Russia has been growing quietly closer to the second largest country in the world