After the horrendous events of December 14th, it didn’t take long before self-serving lies of people like Netanyahu surfaced.
There were two gunmen who used rifles and possibly shotguns to kill 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration in a park at Bondi beach. One of the gunmen was grabbed and disarmed by a civilian who had been hiding behind a car. The civilian was Ahmed Al-Ahmed, a fruit shop owner. Netanyahu stated “I saw a video of a Jew who pounces on one of the murderers, takes his weapon and saves who knows how many lives”. I don’t know what religious belief Ahmed Al-Ahmed, or if indeed he has one at all, but I’d suspect that he isn’t Jewish. He has in fact been reported to be a ‘Syrian Muslim’1.
Netanyahu was later forced to correct this lie. However, he also blamed Anthony Albanese for the Bondi shooting attack, accusing the Australian leader of pouring “fuel on the antisemitism fire” by recognising a Palestinian state. In this, Netanyahu said Albanese had “betrayed” Israel. One thing Netanyahu did say which is, surprisingly for him, true, is that “antisemitism is a cancer” and that it “spreads when leaders stay silent”. Nobody could accuse Albanese of being silent about antisemitism, commissioning as he did, Jillian Segal to report on it. She compiled a report which attempted to conflate protests against the genocide in Gaza with antisemitism2. The depth of Segal’s depravity in supporting Israel can be gauged by her labelling of Adam Bandt’s criticism of Israeli violence in Gaza as antisemitic, and her call for the complete banning of pro-Palestinian protests2. This conflation has now reached a ridiculous phase, where Jews protesting against the Gaza genocide have been labelled as antisemitic3.
I suggest that it is not Albanese who has betrayed Israel and the Jewish diaspora, but it is people like the murderous Netanyahu and his cabal of psychopaths currently forming the government of Israel. These monsters have perpetrated one of the worst crimes of recent years, and they are aided and abetted by Zionists like Segal who seem quite happy to accept the murder of many tens of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children, by bombing, starving and shooting but will not accept criticism of the monsters who have perpetrated this crime. If that is not betraying Israel, nothing is.
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Oh, such an excellent assesssment. I am shocked and sickened by what happened in Bondi yesterday. But i couldnt have put your assessment of the responses better myself. All power to you.