Andrew Dickens: The aftermath of Bondi

Yesterday was a sad, morose day reflecting on the Jewish deaths and their horror, made worse by a never-ending stream of video coverage from every angle.

Never has a massacre been as documented and then distributed. The power of citizens with broadcast studios in their phones. The uncensored images spread by the very social media that Australia banned for the under 16s this past week. 

And we saw the victims - dead, dying, and being given CPR. In their summer shorts and flip flops ready for a day of family fun by the sea. They looked like us. Because they are us. 

Meanwhile the father and son looked unremarkable. Portly. Fat on the life of comfort Australia gave them and yet they did what they did. The face of evil is so often banal. 

Second: are you now realising that Winston Peters knew what he was talking about when he refused to back a state of Palestine?

I was one of the few who agreed - there is no state, there is no governing authority or governance legitimacy. But underneath it all there was no indication that Palestinians want peace. His concern was Hamas was still armed, and recognition could push Hamas towards a more hardened position.

So, in the wake of the killings there was a Jewish bloke interviewed in front of the dead and the dying and he let rip. 

He talked about October 7th. He talked about Hamas' atrocities and then he railed about Albanese and all the other states and statesman who then sent money to Gaza and made virtue signalling noises about state recognition, and lo and behold what do we see? An empowered people with a big grudge still adopting a hardened position.

Benjamin Netanyahu wrote to Anthony Albanese in August, warning that the government’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire … emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.” Was he wrong? 

Apparently, we have a peace process. Obviously, it’s not working.  

Apparently the end game for the end of violence is a two-state solution, but can we really see these two people co-existing any time soon?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was pretty blue yesterday. Yesterday was a sad, morose
day reflecting on what happened in Bondai, the Jewish deaths
and their horror, and it was made worse by this
never ending stream of video coverage from every angle. Never
has a massacre been as documented and then distributed as this.
It's the power of citizens who basically have broadcast studios
in their phones. Right now, we have video after video

(00:21):
spread by the very social media that Australia banned for
the under sixteens this past week, and we saw the victims,
the dead and the dying, and those being given CPR
in their summer shorts and their flip flops, ready for
a day of family fund by the sea. They looked
like us because they are us, and the father and

(00:41):
the son they looked une remarkable, portly fat on the
life of comfort Australia has given them, and yet they
did what they did the face of evil itsel off
and banal. Now are you beginning to think these days
that Winston Peters knew what he was talking about when
he refused to back a state of Palestine earlier in
the year. I was one of the few who did agree.
There is no state. There was no governing authority or

(01:02):
governance legitimacy. But underneath it all there was no indication
that the Palestinians wanted peace, and his concern that her
mass was still armed and recognition could push her mass
and their supporters to a more hardened position. That's what
Winston said. So in the wake of the killings, there
was a Jewish block that I saw on the phone
in front of the dead and the dying, and he

(01:23):
let rip. He talked about October the seventh, He talked
about the harmas atrocity, and then he railed about Alberanesi
and all the other states and statesmen who then sent
money to Guaza and made virtue signaling noises about state
recognition and Lovererhold, what do we see? An angry, empowered people,
big grudge, still adopting a hardened position. Benjamin Nettinnah, who

(01:43):
wrote to Alberenzi back in August, He warned that Australia's
moves to recognize the Palestinian state poured fuel on the
anti Semitic fire and emboldened those who menace Australian Jews
and encourages the jew hatred which now stalks you a
street now, was Nettannaho wrong? Apparently we have a peace process.
Obviously it's not working. Apparently the endgame for the end

(02:08):
of violence between these two faiths is a two state solution.
But can we rarely see these two people co existing
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