Your woeful actions suggest a problem far greater than incompetence or cynical political expediency. These are the actions of someone who does not know right from wrong, or good from evil.
This letter can also be addressed to Starmer, Macron and Carney who’ve placated the Islamists, turned a blind eye to the explosion of antisemitism and repeated demonstrably false blood libels. Their countries are just as hostile to and dangerous for Jews as Australia. The UK, France and Canada are ripe for their own Bondi Beach.
Thank you for an example of a brilliant piece of writing, zeroing in squarely and accurately on the state of things in Australia.
I would like to ask your permission to use your masterly eloquence as the basis for a similar open letter to Prime Minister Starmer, whose disgraceful behaviour, policies and colleagues almost mirror those of Albanese & Co, just as the state of things in England pretty much mirrors those in Australia.
And only two months ago we suffered a similar murderous attack on a Manchester synagogue.
I seem to exist in a constant state of incredulity when I look around the 'Free West' and see what we have become in only 30 years or so.
We have become something nauseating, something reptilian, something hateful, something totally dishonest - those in power seem to worship lies, gaslighting and statist tropes over simple honesty. We defer not just to the tyranny of minorities, but to the tyranny of EVIL minorities.
We see our 'Leaders', our law enforcement mouthing platitudes that say such cries as 'Jihad' can mean many different things to different people and that actually, crying Jihad is absolutely harmless, that there's nothing wrong with the 'From the River to the Sea' chant - when it's perfectly obvious that it refers to the genocide of the Israeli State.
(I suppose in theory there was nothing wrong with 'Deutschland uber Alles' either - just a rousing song to sing over a beer or two . . . )
We listen to chants encouraging the 'Globalisation of the Intifada' - move along now, nothing to see here, say our police - whilst meanwhile, on the streets of London we see a Jew actually threatened with arrest by the Metropolitan Police for appearing 'openly Jewish'.
Think about that last one.
Roll it on your tongue.
Consider what it means and what it signifies.
Mind you, of course, here in England we have also had a christian lady arrested for praying silently in public, so perhaps there's some consistency about our attitude to all religions - erm, except one particular religion of peace.
I'm waiting wearily now for our wretched Leaders to say something.
Let's guess:
'Our hearts are with the bereaved'
'We are shocked'
'Lessons will be learned'
'The perpetrators are not representative of the Religion of Peace'
'We will crack down on antisemitism . . . and Islamophobia - all hate crimes are bad and the real problem is the rise of the Far Right . . .'
'The real causal factor is the Israeli violence in Gaza and the West Bank . . .'
And once again, the reality of all those Muslim votes will bear fruit.
I don't know enough about how Australian politics works, but it seems to me the moral sickness on display at Bondi and at Manchester has the same parents as that displayed on 7 October 2023; until (if ever) this is recognised, the future for the West is bleak indeed.
All I can really say, as I've said before, is that our Leaders are not representative of most of us.
And we - the far too silent majority - are totally with you.
"The fact that Jews were in the synagogue at 4:10 in the morning" seems to have amazed this political chameleon. I'm Catholic and we individually engage hourly at what we call Adoration 24 hours a day and I do my turn at it from 0100-0200. Would HE be shocked if he knew that? Finally, anywhere there are Islamics in any number it seems the political clowns fall all over themselves to favorably respond to every aberrant twitch from these people, the US not excepted and I use Minnesota, as a perfect example.
Yet again, the world is silent. Case in point: I post (on FB) several accounts/essays I’ve read about yesterday’s horrors on Bondi Beach, the rise of Antisemitism, and the clear and present danger of a repeat of the Holocaust. Only TWO friends respond. The rest? Absolute crickets. What am I to infer but that either they’re too afraid to repudiate the attack or—worse yet—they simply don’t care. I am more than simply disappointed and shocked. I’m enraged. Time for me to choose better, more compassionate friends, ones who actually read and research and—most of all—recognize the gathering storm ahead and do their best to stop it.
Instead of considering this culpability in globalising the inifada to Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, Albo has grabbed Howard's playbook and now advocates more regulation for gun control.
RIP to the 12 innocent people including a father of five, a 12-year old girl and a Holocaust survivor who were gunned down in cold blood by two animals in Sydney, Australia at Bondi Beach! Anthony Albanese is in part responsible for what took place. Nacham, you absolutely ripped the so-called “Prime Minister” a new one for his dereliction of duty and total disregard for Jewish life! The Albanese government has done diddly squat to protect Australian Jews. He gave visas to radicalized Gazan refugees. He recognized a Palestinian state. He accused Israel of war crimes that later turned out to be false. He accused Israel of genocide despite them fighting a historically humane war.
John Curtin he is not! What happened to Australian leaders the caliber of Bob Hawke, Kevin Rudd and John Howard? Albanese’s poll numbers are abysmal! I never thought it would be possible to make Australians miss Malcolm Turnbull but Albanese did it! He cares more about getting Arab and Muslim votes to save his political career than Jewish lives. If this attack had been on a gathering of women, Aboriginal people, Torrit Straight Islanders, black Africans, LGBTQ+ people, Arabs, or Muslims, it would’ve elicited a much stronger response from Albanese I assure you. But the left doesn’t care about Jews so there is incentive for him to care about their plight as he would those other groups.
It’s time to elect Susan Ley as Australia’s next Prime Minister! Albanese needs to be voted out of office and soon! The Australian Jewish community must receive quadruple the police protection they are now. Mass immigration to Australia needs to be extinguished once and for all. Mass deportations must be carried out rapidly. All migrant boats must be stopped and sent home. Assimilation and patriotism must be pushed hard. A huge border fence must be erected with the Australian military patrolling sea, land and air to watch for illegal immigrants. Australia must sign a defense pact with Israel. All mosques preaching radicalism will be shuttered. High-skilled immigration will become the focus of Australian immigration policy. Direct incitement of violence is NOT free speech! Pro-Palestinian protesters who engage in violence should be arrested and prosecuted and such protests should be regulated.
They should only be allowed to protect in certain areas, the number of people in them will be limited and the police must accompany them. The Special Operations Command will be sent into Sydney to help the police find Jihadists and protect Jewish communities. Australia will place common sense restrictions on immigration and only allow in about 100,000 people a year. All newcomers will be thoroughly vetted. The rules around who claim asylum in Australia will be tightened. Here’s another point I’d ask folks to consider all the money and resources going to illegal immigrants and migrants, wouldn’t those be better served going to vulnerable population in Australia like children, poor people, homeless people, veterans, mentally ill folks, Aboriginal Australians, Torrit Straight Islanders, cancer patients, disabled people, workers, the elderly, widows, and orphans?
Thanks for this clear-eyed assessment of what is wrong with the Australian Prime Minister. It's very simple. Terrorism is war. One side goes around and terrorizes and kills the opposition. The prime minister cannot be a cheerleader for both sides and then with a wink and a nod, expect that all the antisemitism and killing will stop. Apparently he is confused. He can't it both ways. Especially with his embrace of the two state solution. The antisemitic side was gifted Gaza in hopes that all the hatred, the violence and killing directed at Israel would stop. It didn't and worse, the killers had played the victim card to drum up enough enthusiastic support for their war against in Israel never having to end. Now it seems the Prime Minister's failure to stop antisemitism in Australian is bringing the Hamas-nics war against Israel to Australia. "Well surely it won't ever get that bad," he might say "and if it does, nobody could have stopped it and I surely did the best I could. Nobody can blame me." And as long the terrorists are never actually stopped, he will remain in office and everything will go back to the way it was before after all the terrorism runs its course in due time. How flat out delusional is that?
I was just about the write the exact same thing as Danny Rosenstein below. That letter could completely be addressed to our horrendous Prime Minister Keir Starmer here in the UK. I am so ashamed if the leaders of the Western world, I simply can’t understand it. I have not deviated from my support for Israel, EVER. I really feel that all normal decent minded people think like me, despite the noisy minority. I know this seems extremely trivial but, despite the gravity of the situation, it’ll be interesting how Israel does at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel won it, which would reflect the support that it has got from ordinary people like me in the free world. Israel will be getting all my votes here in England. God bless you all. Best wishes Alexandra Lawson.
This letter can also be addressed to Starmer, Macron and Carney who’ve placated the Islamists, turned a blind eye to the explosion of antisemitism and repeated demonstrably false blood libels. Their countries are just as hostile to and dangerous for Jews as Australia. The UK, France and Canada are ripe for their own Bondi Beach.
Agree 💯
Agree 👍.
Dear Nachum,
Thank you for an example of a brilliant piece of writing, zeroing in squarely and accurately on the state of things in Australia.
I would like to ask your permission to use your masterly eloquence as the basis for a similar open letter to Prime Minister Starmer, whose disgraceful behaviour, policies and colleagues almost mirror those of Albanese & Co, just as the state of things in England pretty much mirrors those in Australia.
And only two months ago we suffered a similar murderous attack on a Manchester synagogue.
I seem to exist in a constant state of incredulity when I look around the 'Free West' and see what we have become in only 30 years or so.
We have become something nauseating, something reptilian, something hateful, something totally dishonest - those in power seem to worship lies, gaslighting and statist tropes over simple honesty. We defer not just to the tyranny of minorities, but to the tyranny of EVIL minorities.
We see our 'Leaders', our law enforcement mouthing platitudes that say such cries as 'Jihad' can mean many different things to different people and that actually, crying Jihad is absolutely harmless, that there's nothing wrong with the 'From the River to the Sea' chant - when it's perfectly obvious that it refers to the genocide of the Israeli State.
(I suppose in theory there was nothing wrong with 'Deutschland uber Alles' either - just a rousing song to sing over a beer or two . . . )
We listen to chants encouraging the 'Globalisation of the Intifada' - move along now, nothing to see here, say our police - whilst meanwhile, on the streets of London we see a Jew actually threatened with arrest by the Metropolitan Police for appearing 'openly Jewish'.
Think about that last one.
Roll it on your tongue.
Consider what it means and what it signifies.
Mind you, of course, here in England we have also had a christian lady arrested for praying silently in public, so perhaps there's some consistency about our attitude to all religions - erm, except one particular religion of peace.
I'm waiting wearily now for our wretched Leaders to say something.
Let's guess:
'Our hearts are with the bereaved'
'We are shocked'
'Lessons will be learned'
'The perpetrators are not representative of the Religion of Peace'
'We will crack down on antisemitism . . . and Islamophobia - all hate crimes are bad and the real problem is the rise of the Far Right . . .'
'The real causal factor is the Israeli violence in Gaza and the West Bank . . .'
And once again, the reality of all those Muslim votes will bear fruit.
I don't know enough about how Australian politics works, but it seems to me the moral sickness on display at Bondi and at Manchester has the same parents as that displayed on 7 October 2023; until (if ever) this is recognised, the future for the West is bleak indeed.
All I can really say, as I've said before, is that our Leaders are not representative of most of us.
And we - the far too silent majority - are totally with you.
Hamakom yenachem etchem betoch shaar avelay tziyon v'yerushalayim
"The fact that Jews were in the synagogue at 4:10 in the morning" seems to have amazed this political chameleon. I'm Catholic and we individually engage hourly at what we call Adoration 24 hours a day and I do my turn at it from 0100-0200. Would HE be shocked if he knew that? Finally, anywhere there are Islamics in any number it seems the political clowns fall all over themselves to favorably respond to every aberrant twitch from these people, the US not excepted and I use Minnesota, as a perfect example.
BHO kicked open the gates to the Western world. MAGA!
Brilliant- should be on every social media in the world.
Yet again, the world is silent. Case in point: I post (on FB) several accounts/essays I’ve read about yesterday’s horrors on Bondi Beach, the rise of Antisemitism, and the clear and present danger of a repeat of the Holocaust. Only TWO friends respond. The rest? Absolute crickets. What am I to infer but that either they’re too afraid to repudiate the attack or—worse yet—they simply don’t care. I am more than simply disappointed and shocked. I’m enraged. Time for me to choose better, more compassionate friends, ones who actually read and research and—most of all—recognize the gathering storm ahead and do their best to stop it.
The,Australian Prime Minister has blood on his body, hands 🤬🤬🤬
Instead of considering this culpability in globalising the inifada to Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Bondi Beach, Albo has grabbed Howard's playbook and now advocates more regulation for gun control.
NYC too is “ripe for its own Bondi Beach” MAGA!
RIP to the 12 innocent people including a father of five, a 12-year old girl and a Holocaust survivor who were gunned down in cold blood by two animals in Sydney, Australia at Bondi Beach! Anthony Albanese is in part responsible for what took place. Nacham, you absolutely ripped the so-called “Prime Minister” a new one for his dereliction of duty and total disregard for Jewish life! The Albanese government has done diddly squat to protect Australian Jews. He gave visas to radicalized Gazan refugees. He recognized a Palestinian state. He accused Israel of war crimes that later turned out to be false. He accused Israel of genocide despite them fighting a historically humane war.
John Curtin he is not! What happened to Australian leaders the caliber of Bob Hawke, Kevin Rudd and John Howard? Albanese’s poll numbers are abysmal! I never thought it would be possible to make Australians miss Malcolm Turnbull but Albanese did it! He cares more about getting Arab and Muslim votes to save his political career than Jewish lives. If this attack had been on a gathering of women, Aboriginal people, Torrit Straight Islanders, black Africans, LGBTQ+ people, Arabs, or Muslims, it would’ve elicited a much stronger response from Albanese I assure you. But the left doesn’t care about Jews so there is incentive for him to care about their plight as he would those other groups.
It’s time to elect Susan Ley as Australia’s next Prime Minister! Albanese needs to be voted out of office and soon! The Australian Jewish community must receive quadruple the police protection they are now. Mass immigration to Australia needs to be extinguished once and for all. Mass deportations must be carried out rapidly. All migrant boats must be stopped and sent home. Assimilation and patriotism must be pushed hard. A huge border fence must be erected with the Australian military patrolling sea, land and air to watch for illegal immigrants. Australia must sign a defense pact with Israel. All mosques preaching radicalism will be shuttered. High-skilled immigration will become the focus of Australian immigration policy. Direct incitement of violence is NOT free speech! Pro-Palestinian protesters who engage in violence should be arrested and prosecuted and such protests should be regulated.
They should only be allowed to protect in certain areas, the number of people in them will be limited and the police must accompany them. The Special Operations Command will be sent into Sydney to help the police find Jihadists and protect Jewish communities. Australia will place common sense restrictions on immigration and only allow in about 100,000 people a year. All newcomers will be thoroughly vetted. The rules around who claim asylum in Australia will be tightened. Here’s another point I’d ask folks to consider all the money and resources going to illegal immigrants and migrants, wouldn’t those be better served going to vulnerable population in Australia like children, poor people, homeless people, veterans, mentally ill folks, Aboriginal Australians, Torrit Straight Islanders, cancer patients, disabled people, workers, the elderly, widows, and orphans?
Thanks for this clear-eyed assessment of what is wrong with the Australian Prime Minister. It's very simple. Terrorism is war. One side goes around and terrorizes and kills the opposition. The prime minister cannot be a cheerleader for both sides and then with a wink and a nod, expect that all the antisemitism and killing will stop. Apparently he is confused. He can't it both ways. Especially with his embrace of the two state solution. The antisemitic side was gifted Gaza in hopes that all the hatred, the violence and killing directed at Israel would stop. It didn't and worse, the killers had played the victim card to drum up enough enthusiastic support for their war against in Israel never having to end. Now it seems the Prime Minister's failure to stop antisemitism in Australian is bringing the Hamas-nics war against Israel to Australia. "Well surely it won't ever get that bad," he might say "and if it does, nobody could have stopped it and I surely did the best I could. Nobody can blame me." And as long the terrorists are never actually stopped, he will remain in office and everything will go back to the way it was before after all the terrorism runs its course in due time. How flat out delusional is that?
I was just about the write the exact same thing as Danny Rosenstein below. That letter could completely be addressed to our horrendous Prime Minister Keir Starmer here in the UK. I am so ashamed if the leaders of the Western world, I simply can’t understand it. I have not deviated from my support for Israel, EVER. I really feel that all normal decent minded people think like me, despite the noisy minority. I know this seems extremely trivial but, despite the gravity of the situation, it’ll be interesting how Israel does at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. I wouldn’t be surprised if Israel won it, which would reflect the support that it has got from ordinary people like me in the free world. Israel will be getting all my votes here in England. God bless you all. Best wishes Alexandra Lawson.