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A woman in her 70s from central Israel was arrested on Wednesday for intending to plan an assassination plot on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Police said she is a “known anti-government protester,” and that she approached other protesters in enquiry to obtain weapons, and also inquired as to the prime minister's security arrangements.

Opposition head Yair Lapid (Yeah Atid) condemned the incident. “Justice must be realized with anyone who tried or will try to hurt him [Netanyahu].”

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

based grandma tried to kill a Nazi.

[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

It would take someone that old to recognize one in Israel these days I guess

[–] PeacefulForest@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah I just saw posts about children starved to death. The blood of these children are on his hands. I think we can all agree we want a safe world for children.

P.s. Release the files.

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I hope she did it for based reasons

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Critical support was invented for this moment

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

Death of the author or something

[–] Bridger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Better luck next time, I guess.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

why every single action in the west uses explosives and guns, obviously controlled stuff, instead of historically verified methods?

(but also +1 good israeli, there are now 50 of them huh)

[–] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

historically verified methods?

Aren't guns and explosives are pretty damn historically verified? It's the ever increasing technology imbalance especially of modern times that makes them more easily tracked and thwarted than they used to be. I'm sincerely curious what you mean by historically verified methods if not guns and explosives. Knives? Swords? Those may not be as readily controlled as guns and explosives, but they've got a lot of other things going against them in terms of efficacy. (edit:) Poison? It would be interesting to see that make a comeback as a common method for political assassination for sure.

There is an obvious solution to all this: the-doohickey

Not sure I'd call it historically verified yet though.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

poisons and diseases, no?

and now drones, which i'm still amazed that they have not been used in 5 years, you can drop lead weights from 1 km/fly at 60 mph to jsut collide without touching anything controlled, now precision is lacking of course for lead weights, and you have to be very good with electronics to fix it, but it's nowhere near as dangerous or controlled as explosives