From Global Research
Also in time for the holidays, a suspicious terrorist attack unfolded at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The shooting took place during a Hanukkah celebration hosted by the Chabad of Bondi. Sixteen people were killed along with one of the perpetrators and a second suspect was taken into custody. Netanyahu claimed the man who tackled the shooter was a Jew when in fact he was a Syrian Australian.
The legacy media and social media wasted little time hyping the tragic event as an indication that Islamic terror attacks are on the rise. “Bondi Beach Is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like,” the neocon Bret Stephens wrote on December 14 for The New York Times. Stephens, who considers himself a Zionist, wrote in 2002 that Iraq would become the first nuclear power in the Arab world, thus adding to propaganda leading to the murder of more than a million Iraqis.
Iran denies involvement blaming Israel for the Bondi attack: Times of India
The Times reported in August the Australian government declared “Iran was behind antisemitic arson attacks on it soil.” In response, Australia cut diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic.
On social media, in response to the Bondi massacre, posts argued that “Hamas supporters” should starve to death, while others demanded that all Muslims be forcibly deported, that Islam is the single most dangerous threat to world peace, and “political correctness” is a scourge threatening Western civilization.
On December 15, President Trump, after service members were killed in Syria and an ISIS flag was allegedly discovered in the car of the Bondi Beach suspects, said he will attack ISIS in Syria. Trump said this despite his support of the current self-declared leader of Syria, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa (known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammad al-Julani), the former the emir of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (Organization for the Liberation of the Levant), despite previously being added to the State Department’s existing designation of its predecessor, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra.
Finally, Israeli intelligence is exploiting the Bondi Beach shooting as a pretext to once again attack Iran.
“Officials were also probing links to Hezbollah, Hamas, and Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, which is connected to al-Qaeda,” The Jerusalem Post posted on December 14. “A senior US official told Fox News that if the Islamic Republic ordered the attack, then the US would fully recognize Israel’s right to strike Iran in response.”
However, an unverified accusation posted on X claims the shooter is an Israeli Jew named David Cohen. In addition, posts on the social media platform claim the name Naveed Akram was searched repeatedly on the internet from Tel Aviv on the day before the shooting.