More On the Bondi Terror Attack

Further thoughts on this great evil:

We are still learning more about the horrific attack on Jews in Bondi yesterday. So far we know that 16 have died (including one of the shooters), ranging in age from 10 to 76, and another 40 have been wounded. Of real concern is the fact that a Holocaust survivor lost his life. And a survivor of Oct. 7 was also shot, but thankfully he survived his second jihadist attack in just over two years.

The shooting team was a father and son – the son is still alive and under police guard. The shooting made the news all around the world, with even President Trump speaking directly to it. And it is now being said that the brave civilian who disarmed one of the gunmen is a Lebanese Maronite Christian.

Why this happened is not hard to come by. The sad reality is this: rampant antisemitism has been allowed to fester and go unchecked in Australia ever since Oct. 7. The Albanese government has done absolutely nothing to lessen or deter this, but has instead encouraged it and promoted it. By letting in masses of Muslims, by appointing an ‘Islamophobia’ spokesman, recognising Palestine, and so on, it had been on the side of the attackers.

And many leaders, media people, politicians and commentators are running with the usual line, ‘Let’s not respond in anger, let’s not overreact, let’s not tar all Muslims with the same brush’ and so on. All the emphasis is on the perpetrators, and not the victims!

It’s as if the Jews caused the massacre. It’s as if ordinary Australians are to blame. Sure, we do not want an incensed Aussie going out and shooting up mosques. But why do our elites always deflect here? Some folks are slow learners, but after 1400 years of history, we really should know by now that Islam is NOT a religion of peace.

Bondi is just the latest case of this. And just what do we think “globalise the intifada” actually means? Please do not forget that a senior Hamas official just said to Al-Jazeera: “We welcome the blessed attack in Australia, it was a huge and inspiring event that strengthens the resistance worldwide.”

Nutters on the woke right also need to be addressed here. Some are talking about Bondi being a psy op, and antisemitism not being a problem. Or they are saying, ‘I am keeping an open mind’. That is just as useful as Christians in 1930’s Germany saying they will wait and see how Hitler and the Nazis turn out. ‘We don’t want to rush to judgment here! Let’s just give Hitler the benefit of the doubt, and wait and see what happens’!

Thankfully folks like Churchill saw through that reckless counsel of appeasement and surrender. These clueless wonders need to heed Chesterton’s wise words: “The problem with a lot of open minds is that they need to be closed down for repairs.”

Of interest, I have had clueless wonders playing down antisemitism, or defending grifters like Candace Owens, who keep chirping about their ‘open mind’. Yeah right, they are open to death cults, and to this nutter cultist, but they end up blocking and unfriending me and others who dare to have a differing point of view! So much for their open minds! They cannot be reasoned with – it is ultimately spiritual deceit and deception.

And one person on the right said this: “Focusing on antisemitism (while abhorrent) only serves to further embolden antisemitism. This should be about countering, if not combatting Islam.” What an odd thing to say! How in the world does pointing out antisemitism cause more of it?

The truth is quite simple actually: Islam is virulently antisemitic. Trying to separate antisemitism from Islamism is like trying to sever Jesus from Christianity. The two always go together. So sensible people will rightly resist BOTH Islam and antisemitism.

Commentary by others

Benjamin Netanyahu said this about the Bondi attack and Labor’s two-year lack of action on antisemitism: ‘You did nothing about this’. See his statement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1kcvZvqWk

Brendan O’Neill wrote: “This is not a time to mince words. Moral clarity is our sole duty on this dark day. What happened in Bondi in Sydney was an act of fascist barbarism. It was a pogrom on a beach. It was a massacre of Jews that brought to mind the horrors of the mid-20th century. If this pitiless atrocity doesn’t open the eyes of the West, nothing will.”

Revd Canon Brett Murphy posted this:

Don’t fall for the faux unity narratives being pushed by the political elites in the wake of the horrific Bondi attack. They condemn antisemitism but refuse to acknowledge the root cause of the majority of it: Islam! Successive governments have betrayed their own people, importing millions of people who have a worldview based on the Quran which teaches seething hatred towards Jews and Christians. Mass deportations and a ban on further Islamic migration is urgently needed to save the West. Recently the Aussie government rightly deported a single foreign Neo-Nazi for his anti-Jewish hate, yet they hypocritically dance around the massive Islamic elephant in the room. Senior politicians, university officials and community leaders have all turned a blind eye or worse supported the thinly veiled hatred that bubbles just beneath the surface of the Pro-Palestine movement, allowing protests that call for the destruction of the Jewish state and downplaying the horrible discrimination Jews experience daily. Enough is enough, there’s nothing wrong with being furious about this and voting for whoever has the stones to deal with it properly.

Rowan Dean wrote:

Many people now have blood on their hands. I include among them, in my opinion, the Foreign Minister of Australia, Penny Wong, for repeatedly inflaming anti-Israel sentiments on the national and international stage and giving comfort to the pro-Palestinian cause; the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, for his absolute craven cowardice and constant pandering to the Islamic community and refusal to implement the antisemitism measures that have repeatedly been demanded; the Immigration Minister Tony Burke for flooding this country with people from communities around the world, including Gaza, where Jew hatred flows through their veins.

 

I also include among those who have blood on their hands every single person who has participated in a pro-Palestinian march, every university campus, every politician who marched over the Sydney Harbour Bridge in lockstep with Islamist fanatics, every single media commentator who has echoed some kind of sympathy for the Islamist, pro-Palestinian cause; every antisemite who has muttered under their breath obscenities about ‘the Jews’.

 

You all disgust me. You all brought this on despite all the warnings we repeatedly gave you for the last two years. You have destroyed this nation. Australia must now have a serious conversation about deporting Islamist lunatics and must immediately tighten our immigration policies to ensure that this can never happen again. Australia died tonight. Can it ever be the same again?

Melanie Phillips said this in part:

Antisemitism is always with us. The most that Jews can hope is that a civilised society will excommunicate it from the public space. Instead, all the guardrails against against Jew hatred have been dismantled. As a result, antisemitism has been normalised.

 

On social media, the defamation of Israel and Jews has been fuelled by Iranian, Russian, and Chinese state-linked bots, which have exploited Gaza as a means of destabilising western societies. These regimes have all understood how easily such lies could colonise the minds of so many in the west because they’ve been primed by an entire culture to believe them.

 

This will be the undoing of the west itself, the real target of the Islamists and others in this axis of evil. In Britain, America and elsewhere, there will be many public ceremonies tonight to light the first candle of the eight-day Chanukah festival. Jews everywhere should go to these ceremonies. As Chabad said in a defiant statement after the murder of its emissary on Bondi beach:

 

The response to terror is not retreat, but resolve. Chanukah celebrates the Jewish rebellion in 167 BCE, led by the Maccabees against the oppression of the Greek Seleucid empire, that re-established the Jewish kingdom of Judea.

 

Every civilisation that’s tried to destroy the Jews has disappeared. The Jewish people has survived them all. Despite the centuries of exile, vilification, persecution, extermination and genocide, we are still here. The Jews are the eternal people. The Bondi beach atrocity was a shock, but not a surprise. In every generation they rise up against us. They will never defeat us.

Yes, we were supposed to never forget. But we do keep forgetting. When will we finally start remembering?

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