Comment: Note that analysts such as Norman Finklestein and Alistair Crooke have repeatedly highlighted that the vast majority of Israelis support the genocide, and there's even a significant proportion who think the Israeli army aren't being violent enough. Which may, in part, explain the relatively low refuse-nik rate.

That said, there's also been an exodus of well over 500,000 Israelis from the country, and a surge of mental health disorders, which may be, in part, helping avoid the conscription issue altogether. What is clear is that the Israeli army are desperate for more conscripts.

A bit like Netanyhau's son, Yair, who has been whiling away the genocide in beachfront apartments in Miami:

• Wave of resignations among senior Israeli army officers - Israeli media
• 42% of Israel's student soldiers mull 'quitting' school over 'psychological strain' of war on Gaza
• Psychiatrists leaving Israel for UK amid surge in mental health disorders, plunging 'collapsing' system into deeper crisis

Comment: In recent months there has been a spate of these kind of seemingly random attacks, both in Europe and also over in Australia, and against random bystanders, as well as known figures; figures who often, oppose the establishment narrative in some way.

It's also notable that the mainstream media, particularly in Germany, regularly frame the 'far-right' as a threat to the country. However their definition of 'far-right', again, tends to be any conservative view that's critical of current policies, and which includes everyone from farmers, to those protesting against genocide, and weaponised mass migration.

It remains to be seen whether, as has been the case in other attacks, this perpetrator was known to the authorities:

• May 2024: Australian police shoot dead 16-year-old boy after he stabbed a man - attacker was known to authorities and WARNED them day before incident
• 15th April Bishop and 3 worshipers attacked with knife on livestream in Sydney Orthodox church, comes just 48 hours after mall attack
• 13th April Sydney mall knife attack: 6 dead, several wounded, incl. baby, perpetrator was known to authorities
• Dec 2023: 1 tourist dead after Paris knife attack, assailant was known by authorities for terrorist plans & radical Islam views

Comment: Whilst all countries are involved in intelligence operations, if there was any solid evidence that Russia was involved in any of this sabotage, they would surely have provided it. What's particularly notable is the timing, because these incidents have been on the rise for a few years now; the incidents that they fail to highlight, such as those against food and energy supplies; as well as the fact that a significant number of these incidents have happened over in the US.

As documented on Wikipedia, Russia, too, has suffered a surge of at least 150 suspicious fires and explosions at various locations - including energy infrastructure, military installations and shopping malls - since the start of its SMO in Ukraine; are we to believe that Russia has been attacking itself?

When it comes to self-sabotage, the difference between the West and Russia is that the West is demonstrably and knowingly destroying their own economies, Russia is not. For some in the West, destroying the food and energy supply chain is ideological, that's not the case in Russia. Hence Russia wouldn't attack itself, but factions in the West just might. And with the additional benefit of being able to blame Russia.

Note that it's Western governments that are deindustrialising their economies, and food supply chains, in pursuit of their fanatical, and deadly, green agenda:

• Explosion and fire at major food processing & biofuel plant in US
• 'Sabotage terrorist attack' blasts two Iranian gas pipeline; massive explosion at Russia's Voktinsk munitions factory

Comment: The managerial state of our age does not sleep.

Last words to C.S. Lewis:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
― C.S. Lewis

Comment: Oddly enough, Boston's crime rate is actually dropping (for now), but it's not due to Ms. Wu's lunatic ideas, but to the decades-long efforts of realist community and government partners on the ground. Wu's policies are likely to damage or even destroy all that good work.

Today's drop in crime likely has many factors, including a higher-than-average homicide solve rate and an increase in anonymous tips. But these also point to the importance of the community ties built up in recent decades.

"We've been practicing community policing for a long time," Mr. Cox told The Boston Globe. "I think we're receiving the benefit of actually establishing a true partnership with the public like we had before, and this is the fruits of that relationship."

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Former Boston Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, who was famous - and infamous - for his "broken windows" strategy, once described community policing as getting out of the patrol car and walking the community streets, getting to know people's names. Most importantly, it's about forging partnerships with residents.

"It really comes down to dialogue. That's the key," says Jack McDevitt, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "You want to include the community in the decisions about how they are policed. You can give them feedback and really include them as an actual partner in your strategies.

"We learned in Boston a long time ago that the police can't solve the problem of violence by themselves. They need the community as a partner."

Ms. Smith of Mothers for Justice & Equality sees signs of progress in these areas.

The city has made great strides "around preventing and getting our youth off the streets," she says. "It's the community-based models that are doing better with educating our children. There are many more resources being put there."

The greatest success has been YouthConnect, a partnership between BPD and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. The program places licensed social workers in police stations to address the underlying causes of juvenile delinquency and, hopefully, prevent crime before it starts.

YouthConnect's approach is unique, compared with other social work models integrated within police departments. The duty of the YouthConnect social worker is to address the needs of the entire family, not just of the youth at risk.

Last year, YouthConnect made more than 2,500 referrals to other service providers. Those could be anything from connecting a family member to a job opportunity to helping struggling students engage with summer camp or after-school learning programs.

Nearly 85% of youth say yes to services when YouthConnect makes its calls to families, and the numbers of both YouthConnect referrals and "yes" responses have increased over time, showing mounting trust and effectiveness.

"Our social workers are working out of the clubs and building trusting relationships because people see them as who they are, and not just as social workers," says Robert Lewis, president of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston. "That's what works and why I think the number of referrals has increased. ... A lot of it has to do with trust."

Comment: It seems that, with a majority support from the people of Israel, and the governments of the West, Tel Aviv is accelerating its apocalyptic greater Israel project, which, naturally (for them), involves the further expansion of the conflict, the hoped seizure of further territory, and an ever greater slaughter of innocents:

• Israeli, Egyptian troops exchange fire at Rafah crossing - 1 Egyptian soldier killed
• EU mulls sanctioning Israel if its refuses to comply with ICJ genocide-prevention ruling - as Tel Aviv continues bombing Rafah
• Mexico city's Israeli embassy set on fire during anti-genocide protests, day after molotovs thrown at Israeli consulate in Turkey

Comment: Even Western mainstream commentators are acknowledging that Israel's crimes against humanity are turning it into a pariah state: Istanbul protesters set fire to vicinity of Israeli consulate following Rafah massacre