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A British former neo-Nazi who was convicted of harassing a Jewish lawmaker has withdrawn from the race for the Somerset local council as the Conservative Party candidate after intense backlash to his nomination.

Joshua Bonehill-Paine says he will instead serve as a party adviser on extremism.

Bonehill-Paine, 33, was jailed in 2015 for more than three years for posting antisemitic material in advance of a neo-Nazi rally. He was later convicted of harassing Luciana Berger, who is Jewish and was then an MP for the Labour Party, calling her a “rodent” and an “evil money-grabber.”

Bonehill-Paine, who has disavowed his past views, saying he “had thought that getting involved in my local council and working hard for my community was a good way to show how much I have changed and that I want to give something back.”

But, he said, he now realized that “I need to show the Jewish community how much I regret my previous actions and how hard I will work to fight to help destroy antisemitism and rebuild trust.”

“Since leaving prison, I have now spent years fighting antisemitism and extremism,” he adds.

He says Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has offered him to “become an adviser to the Conservative Party’s Culture and Integration Commission, specifically focusing on how young men become radicalized.”

He says he is saddened by the refusal of Jewish leaders to meet with him. “My offer to talk still remains. I am on their side, and I am actively trying to help people susceptible to radicalization and Jew hatred from heading down that path.”

US President Donald Trump says a deal has not yet been reached with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but such an agreement could be reached soon.

In the meantime, the US will maintain its blockade of Iranian ports, Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office.

“We’re doing very well. I’m involved in the negotiation. I think we’re doing fine. It could be soon,” Trump claims.

Trump again claims that the US has an “unlimited supply” of missiles, amid mounting reports that Washington is actually running out of them.

“We’re in great shape, but we always want more,” Trump says, in an effort to explain the White House’s request from Congress for supplemental funding for the Iran war to the tune of over $30 billion.

Israel’s defense establishment has identified a significant increase in attempts by terror groups to launch explosive drones – including fiber-optic drones – within Israel toward targets across the country.

According to the report, officials warned during recent closed-door discussions that there is currently no effective operational solution to the emerging threat in the near term.

Defense Minister Israel Katz recently held an urgent meeting with senior defense officials on the subject, aimed at advancing “an immediate and comprehensive plan to provide an operational response to the drone threat,” according to a statement released by his office.

Fiber-optic drones, which are guided via a cable and therefore immune to electronic jamming, have posed a major challenge for the IDF during its operations in Lebanon, killing Israeli soldiers.

A security official said that “buying a drone and attaching explosives to it is almost as easy as kicking a ball,” adding that “there is still a long way to go before we have an effective solution.”

Roman Gofman, the recently appointed Mossad director, has removed two of the spy agency’s most senior officials who were closely involved in developing an unsuccessful plan to topple the Iranian regime.

According to the report, one of the officials had served since December as the head of the Mossad’s intelligence directorate, and the other was the head of the agency’s Iran division.

The two were among the architects of a written operational plan to bring down the Islamic Republic with the help of Iran’s minority groups, encouraging revived mass protests to oust the regime.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly discussed the plan when persuading US President Donald Trump to go to war in February against the Islamic Republic.

Security sources cited by the network say the two officials and Gofman had clashed from the outset, but stress that their departures are being carried out by mutual agreement as part of a broader reorganization of the Mossad and that both are expected to remain in the agency in other roles.

The Mossad plan reportedly envisioned Israeli strikes on Revolutionary Guard Corps positions along Iran’s border with Iraq, in Iranian Kurdistan. The strikes were designed to open the door for Kurdish fighters to cross into Iran, according to the report, and push into Kurdish cities in the country’s northwest.

The Mossad expected thousands of young Kurds to join the fighters, turning into a mass movement that could reach Tehran itself. It was further thought that this would help embolden a mass protest movement with millions of demonstrators to bring down the regime, according to multiple reports.
The Kurdish offensive was one of the key elements of the plan, which also reportedly envisaged installing former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iranian leader.

Israel engaged in a multi-year effort to recruit Ahmadinejad, in a campaign that included a meeting with then-Mossad chief David Barnea on the sidelines of an academic conference in Hungary. Ahmadinejad’s office denied the story.

At the beginning of the war, Israel and the US did carry out heavy strikes against Iranian security forces – including regime officials, army bases, missile systems, police stations and Basij sites – in the country’s northwest in an effort to ease the Kurds’ path, but leaks to the media, lobbying by Turkey, and wariness among the Kurds themselves led Washington to pull the plug on the idea.

Two Israeli civilians who mistakenly entered the West Bank city of Jenin were attacked by Palestinians, the military says.

The IDF says the pair entered Jenin in their car and had stones thrown at them. Damage was caused to the car, but the Israelis were unharmed.

The two civilians then met up with Israeli troops at the Gilboa Crossing, the army says.

The IDF says that following the incident, “troops were dispatched to detain wanted [Palestinians] in the Jenin area.”

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