The worst Aussie headline I've seen since "the monster chef and the (reacted slur)"

more valid comparisons
* deadliest Australian terrorist attack since Christchurch
* deadliest shooting in Australia since Port Arthur
* or mention what happened in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, the gap is surreal.

Australian authorities have not even released the attacks names yet? but so far it looks like exactly the sort of racist misdirected rage that I've been worried about for nearly two years.

The attack in Bondi was entirely unjustified, but it was also a very likely result of the systematic destruction of the Hamas movement.

Despite Israel's disingenuous attempts to gain international support for the madd

Hamas' existence kept Australia and the Jewish Diaspora safer, their near-total destruction strengthens their rivals whose violence is much less localised.

Hamas' violence was mostly counter-productive (they were always too weak to be a useful defence force, and their attempts at deterrence only ever provoked more violence) but Hamas were also – consistently for 45 years – entirely focused on local targets: Israelis, alleged collaborators, theocratic extremists who oppose the existence of a democratic Palestinian state, alleged gangsters, and drug dealers (but nobody ever mentions Hamas' war on drugs?)

ISIS et al. have always used genocide and persecution of Muslims in conflicts like Bosnia, Xinjiang, and Chechnya to recruit, the destruction of Gaza was inevitably going to spread and exacerbate their kind of particularly random and pointless violence directed against civilians all over the world.

The obliteration of Gaza doesn't justify shooting in Bondi, and 7 October 2023 doesn't justify the total destruction of Gaza (or even the extrajudicial execution of tens of thousands of Hamas members after the event), and the mass shootings in the Negev on 7 October 2023 were massively counter productive towards any goal Hamas claimed.

But the only plausible connection between 7 October 2023 in the Negev and 14 December 2025 in Bondi, is what happened in Gaza in between.

The headline's juxtaposition with a missing middle looks like a very grim satire of the spree of Holocaust-minimising comparisons after the 7 October 2023. Acting like 800 civilians + 300 occupying military are comparable to 6,000,000 civilians killed by an occupying military in Europe was Holocaust-minimisation verging on denial, taking that down another few orders of magnitude is like a twisted parody? But he seems to be serious?

For anyone who forgets the "monster chef" headline or was to young or is not in Australia:

that headline was about the murder of #MayangPrasetyo ten years ago, she was killed by her partner and the coverage was awful, here it is with the slur and front page, I don't know if the article is any good, but I wanted something that showed that terrible front page. https://www.bandt.com.au/the-courier-mail-she-male-headline-was-gratuitous-and-caused-offence-australian-press-council/ #Transphobia

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#auspol #ISIS #MassShooting #ChristchurchMassacre

I wish critics of Israel would shut up about "civilians". Because "wipe out Hamas" is itself a genocidal goal, or at the very least, the war crime of "extermination". Self defense is allowed, but that doesn't mean killing every human being in the group. Self defense means using minimum force to prevent or repel an attack, warfare means using force to achieve some other goal, but when the goal itself is to kill every member of a group as such, that's extermination, and when they are a subset of a larger vilified ethnic or religious group, that's "destroy a group, in whole of in part".

https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-784759

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#Israel #Hamas #HamasGenocide #GazaHolocaust #civilians #extermination

This sounds weirdly familiar

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/204156432

Hebrew MASSACRE.EERIE SCENE IN CEMETERY.

Bodies of 57 Victims Exhumed.

JERUSALEM, 11th September.
There was an eerie scene in Hebron
Cemetery, when the bodies of 57 victims
of the recent massnere were exhumed in
the presence of the Medical Commission,
composed of three British, Arab nnd Jew-
ish doctors. Tile purpose of Hie exhuma
tions is to settle to the satisfaction of the
British authorities the controversy raging
with accumulating fury as to whether
tho Arabs committed the unspeakable
atrocities attributed to thorn by n Jewish
eye-witness. The doctors maintain that
mutilations definitely occurred.
The doctors stood in the cemetery, anil
graves were opened in their presence, the
bodies one by one lieing conveyed in a
tarpaulin to an enclosure. The procedure
in each case was the same. The Arab and
British doctors remained nloof while this
Jewish examination proceeded, until a de
finite clniin could be made when first the
Arab and then the British doctors would
be called to make observations. The find
ings are not likely to bo disclosed foi
some days.

The Grand Mufti's Activities.

Colonel Kish, head of the Palestine Zion
ist Executive, dcclnres the National Coun
cil's statement on Sunday answered the
Grand Mufti's manifesto, which further
more was answered with still greater fin-
Mity ky the Gland Mufti's activities in
Palestine since his return from exile, to
which lie was self-condemned to escape a
hard labor sentence by the Uritish mili
tary courts for responsibility in the riots
in Jerusalem in 1020.

How on earth could there be a "legitimate Hamas target in Turkey"!?

There is no such thing as a legitimate target in goddamn Turkey, especially when HAMAS HAVE NO AIR FORCE. They don't even have an airport!

Nobody that far away WITHOUT A GODDAMN AIR FORCE is a legitimate imminent threat!

No bloody rocket is coming that far! What are these legitimate Hamas targets gonna do, steal the keys to NATO's nukes?

Meanwhile, Israel still behaves exactly like the Lehi and already have 90 nukes!

Do Israel and their fans really not understand that you are not actually allowed to

Most other states seem aware of the concept that they are not allowed to just execute people whenever and whenever they like without trial … let alone this being sometimes in advance for crimes they might commit in the future.

Is it past crimes or future crimes they kill people for? It's not even clear! they seem to be just committing extermination (arguably genocide) against entire parties and movements.

There is no such thing as a legitimate target in goddamn Turkey, especially when HAMAS HAVE NO AIR FORCE. They don't even have an airport!

India was accused of that in Canada and it being in Canada was only part of the problem, on top of it being goddamn murder!

Every civilised country on earth just calls that murder!

Even the USA at least tries to pretend it's some kind of active war zone, even Russia feels the need to outsource it to gangsters who pretend to be cathedral architecture enthusiasts, even Saudi Arabia realises they need to hide the body and makes them disappear with a bone saw! They do it rarely and realize they need to hide it!!

No other country on earth has their supporters making calm milk toast podcasts about how they kindly refrain from murdering people in countries they are particularly fond of!!!

NOBODY ELSE ACTS LIKE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL ANYONE ANYWHERE WHEREVER THEY LIKE.

Nobody is safe anywhere until somebody finds a way to make Israel stop behaving like the goddamn Lehi!!

For what it's worth, I've got a lot more sympathy for the Lehi than I do for the IDF, their ultra nationalism was fairly objectionable, but in terms of tactics there is some excuse for fighting dirty when coming from a position of weakness and persecution, whereas when you've got 90 goddamn bloody nukes, the excuse has run out and it's time to behave!

Unfortunately the opposite is often true. But again, even Russia, the USA, and India seem to realise that murdering unarmed people in countries that you're not at war with is a thing they need to do in moderation!!

None of them feel entitled to murder unnamed people all over the world!!

Source: 199. Israel at War: The Changing Middle East, Part 1

https://jewoughtaknow.com/s08e40-israel-at-war-the-changing-middle-east-part-1

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5HQ2gnJZj9dnCFqDHVPF0M?si=n6nCSiy1SzCZ1HXSX-jvZQ&t=675&pi=XV7wZWqmSXeNA

#jewoughtaknow #podcast #

Confused by Yiddish spelling and pronunciation

The audio for pear sounds like bear? Is that normal? They also start with the same letter.

I thought Yiddish matched Hebrew for these Indoeuropean sounds but now I'm confused? That seems like Arabic.

Lowercase Russian in brackets:

Hebrew seems to be use ب ב for V (в) / B (б) pair and ف פַ for P (п) / F (ф) in Arabic they pair differently.

Arabic uses ب ב for the pair of sounds P (п) / B (б) and ف פַ for the V (в) / F (ф) pair.

#Yiddish #Hebrew #Arabic #LanguageLearning #spelling

#יידישַ #יידיש #עברית #عربي #العربي #العربية #الاغة_العربية

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Is it just me, or do these two look very similar? Two bombings, both killed dozens of people.

Do you find it easy to find which 4 or 5 belong to each bombing?

There's 4 or 5 images of each and 4 other nearby locations.

cc the other me @kmpiw @kmpiw @kmpiw posting to @palestine @israel Is there a Lebanon topic group?

#terrorism #bombing #CarBomb #TruckBomb #SuicudeBombings #SuicudeBombing #Irgun #Etzel #Lehi #SternGang #Hezbollah #1940s #1980s #MenachemBegin #Lebanon #Palestine #Israel #UnitedStatesEmbasy #Beirut #BeirutBombing

غزة/ محمد ماجد/ الأناضول

نشر جهاز الأمن الداخلي في قطاع غزة، مساء الخميس، "اعترافات" لعنصرين من "ولاية سيناء" المبايعة لتنظيم "داعش" الإرهابي، يتحدثون فيها عن قطع المعدات العسكرية والبضائع القادمة إلى القطاع.

جاء ذلك في تسجيل مصور بثه الأمن الداخلي التابع لوزارة الداخلية التي تديرها حركة حماس، على موقع "فيسبوك" بعنوان "داعش المهمة الجديدة".

ويظهر في التسجيل العنصر الأول قائلاً "هاجرت من غزة لولاية سيناء، وبقيت 7 شهور تنقلت في العمل (لم يوضح طبيعته)، وآخر عمل لي في المنطقة الحدودية القريبة من رفح (جنوب قطاع غزة)، وهي قريبة من الأنفاق المؤدية لغزة".

وأضاف "في هذه المنطقة كانت بداية التعامل مع الأنفاق، التي تنقسم إلى ثلاثة أقسام، القسم الأول البضائع المحرمة (وهي) السجائر، والقسم الثاني البضائع العامة (لم يوضحها)، فيما القسم الثالث الخاص بالتنظيمات العسكرية بما فيهم حماس".

https://web.archive.org/web/20250519190440/https://www.aa.com.tr/ar/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9/%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B4-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B9%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-/1042794

one of the weirder incidents I've seen, from mid 2017

#Hamas + #PFLP vs #ISIS competing to claim the same attack

and it does describe it as a claim by "حركة حماس" (Hamas movement) not the militant wing, which is slightly weird in Arabic, but maybe not on #France24

or possibly the government actually did say something, given Gaza's police were involved in crackdown on ISIS? but this is before that got heated?

https://www.france24.com/ar/20170617-%D9%81%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%B7%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B7%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A9

The way he died is a bit of an #islamophobic stereotype that seems wrong to draw attention to here? But still - in much more nuanced ways - Meir Feinstein is the most Palestinian Ashkenazi in history.

"He was found badly wounded in his arm and lying on the ground exhausted from the loss of his blood. He has told me that the police who found him hit him in his wounded erm, and instead of giving him immediate aid, took him to army H.Q. in the German Colony, thereby losing a let of precious time. This may have caused the necessity of amputating his arm, thereby making him a cripple for life." https://www.infocenters.co.il/jabo/jabo_multimedia/Files/linked/%D7%9713%20-3_43.PDF

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#MeirFeinstein #Palestinian #Ashkenazi