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Saturday 28 September 2019

In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2109 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement in Jerusalem.
Associated Press
Israel PM’s rival

rejects conditions for

forming government

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s White said in a statement.
centrist Blue and White The centrist party, led by
party, which won the most former army chief Benny
seats in elections earlier this Gantz, won 33 seats, close- This photo taken May 10, 2018, shows defense lawyer Boris Bytensky, left to right, Justice Ruby
month, on Friday rejected ly followed by Netanyahu’s Wong, Alek Minassian and Crown prosecutor Joe Callaghan in court as Minassian appears by
video in Toronto.
what it said were demands Likud, with 32. But neither Associated Press
from Prime Minister Benja- has enough support to as-
min Netanyahu to form a semble a 61-seat major- Toronto van attack suspect said
unity government under ity coalition, and they are
his leadership with his right- fiercely divided over the he ‘accomplished my mission’
wing and ultra-Orthodox leadership and makeup of
Jewish allies. After talks any unity government. By ROB GILLIES my mission,” Minassian said his sexual frustrations on the
with Netanyahu’s Likud, Netanyahu says he is ne- Associated Press when asked by the detec- website 4chan, which has
the Blue and White party gotiating as the head of a TORONTO (AP) — A newly tive how he feels about the become notorious as a
said it “made clear from 55-seat bloc that includes released video shows a death of 10 people. place for extremists to post
the outset” that it would his allies, while the Blue and man who allegedly used a Minassian, who said he nev- their views.
reject those conditions, White says it is only negoti- van to kill 10 pedestrians in er had a girlfriend and was Minassian said he was in
underscoring the daunting ating with the Likud. Toronto telling police that a virgin, acknowledged he contact with Elliot Rodger,
task facing Israel’s longest- Gantz has said he will not he belonged to an online used the van as a weapon a community college stu-
serving prime minister as sit in a government led by community of sexually frus- and said he wanted to in- dent who killed six people
he struggles to hold onto Netanyahu while the prime trated men who plot at- spire more attacks. and wounded 13 in shoot-
his post. “It is clear that minister faces likely indict- tacks against people who “I know of several other ing and stabbing attacks in
the stance taken in set- ment on a series of corrup- have sex. guys over the internet who 2014 near the University of
ting these two precondi- tion allegations following a Alek Minassian faces 10 feel the same way,” he California, Santa Barbara,
tions is aimed at dragging hearing next week. counts of first-degree mur- said, adding they are “too before apparently shoot-
the state of Israel into a Netanyahu is not required der and 16 counts of at- cowardly to act on their ing himself to death.
third round of elections, in by Israeli law to step down tempted murder in con- anger.” Rodger had railed in a
line with the interests of the if he is indicted but will face nection with the April 23, Minassian calls himself an manifesto and online vid-
prime minister,” Blue and heavy pressure to do so.q 2018, attack. “incel,” short for “involun- eos about women who
It drew attention to an on- tary celibate.” The incel shunned him and called
Canada police: 2 line world of sexual loneli- movement is an online sub- for an incel “overthrow”

fugitives talked about ness, rage and misogyny culture linked to the deadly of what he saw as feminist
after the suspect invoked attack in Toronto as well as domination.
killing on videos an uprising by “involuntary attacks in California and Minassian said he “radical-
celibates” and said he had Florida. It promotes the mi-
ized” around the time of
SURREY, British Columbia McLeod and 18-year-old contact with a California sogynistic idea that men the Rodger attack.
(AP) — Canadian police Bryer Schmegelsky, were killer who seethed at wom- are entitled to have sex “I felt it was time to take ac-
say two fugitives suspect- found Aug. 7 in dense en for rejecting him. with women. tion and not just sit on the
ed of killing three people bush in Manitoba. Au- Minassian, 26, is accused Over time, “incel” has be- sidelines and just fester in
before taking their own thorities say they died by of driving a rental van into come a buzzword for cer- my own sadness,” he said.
lives had recorded vid- suicide. crowds of pedestrians in a tain men infuriated at be- Minassian also said in 2013
eos in which they took re- The teens were charged busy north Toronto neigh- ing rejected by women he went to a Halloween
sponsibility for the deaths with the murder of a Uni- borhood. Eight women and prone to float ideas for party and was laughed at
of the victims. versity of British Columbia and two men ranging in violent payback, accord- by women with whom he
The Royal Canadian botany lecturer Leonard age from 22 to 94 died. ing to sociologists and oth- tried to socialize. He said
Mounted Police said Fri- Dyck. They were also sus- Minassian has yet to enter ers who study them. he was upset the women
day that six videos on pects in the deaths of a plea. His trial begins in Like-minded people in in- gave affection to bigger
a digital camera were American Chynna Deese February, but a publication ternet forums sometimes men.
found near the bodies of and her Australian boy- ban on his interrogation by use “Chad” and “Stacy” Minassian said he planned
the two suspects. friend Lucas Fowler. police was lifted Friday. The as dismissive slang for men the attack for a month.
The bodies of the sus- Police say they are un- police interview took place and women with more ac- He said he wanted a van
pects, 19-year-old Kam able to give a motive.q just hours after the attack. tive sex lives. that wasn’t too big, one he
“I feel like I accomplished Minassian said he discussed could maneuver.q