About time – Peter
The massacre at Bondi fits so naturally into the context of Israel’s recent wars with its neighbours that one cannot help but wonder why so few in the post-massacre grieving will make explicit reference to it. This is not to say that a retaliatory and appalling massacre of Jews on a Sydney beach could ever be justified as a legitimate retaliation for the actions of Israel. They can’t, and no one has made any serious attempt to do so. But nor can the Bondi massacre and the sense of siege enveloping Jewish Australians be understood without an appreciation of the dramatic shift of opinion about Israel that has occurred over the past few years. Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu, so quick to blame our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, for appeasement of Palestinians, should have more on his conscience.
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