First there were those
Holy Land hotties, then the
Israeli neo-Nazis. Now, to finish out the trifecta of unholy behavior in God's country, the j. has
this story:
jerusalem -- When an explosion goes off on a busy Israeli street these days, it seems as likely to be a mob hit as a Palestinian attack.
Rival underworld gangs are waging bloody battles for control of gambling and protection rackets, targeting each other with bullets, bombs and anti-tank missiles. Their battles extend even into the bottle recycling business.
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Policemen have been caught feeding information to the mob and smuggling drugs from Egypt. A bodyguard of former prime ministers Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres allegedly moonlighted as a hit man for a crime family.
At least the rise of mob families offers a model for co-existence:
Police officials, speaking on condition on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said a dozen major crime families operate in Israel, and are as ethnically diverse as the country’s population. Arab and Jewish crime families are known to work together trafficking drugs.
(Hat tip:
Bintel Blog)
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