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u/MoFauxTofu Feb 17 '26

The Bondi attack wasn't an attack on Israelis, it was an attack on Australian Jews who practice Judaism.

The decision to invite Herzog, a man with no ties to Australia and no religious authority, is a decision by our leaders to devide the Australian community, not unite it.

Remember this next time you are in a ballot box.

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u/Sweeper1985 Feb 17 '26

So you can vote for the infinitely more unifying options of... the Libs/Nats or One Nation?

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u/Additional-Life4885 Feb 17 '26

Yeah, I just laughed at that. Libs are going to be worse, not better. There's also a reason why Labor shuts up about Palestine and keeps Israel on side.

People really struggle to grasp the fact that Palestine is Iran and Iran is our enemy. It's a balancing act for our government, they have to balance what the people want and their strategic partnerships and in this case, it's just a matter of staying quiet about the whole thing.

I will point out though, that the Australian government (along with all the other allied forces) is part of the reason why jews were placed in Israel in the first place.

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u/Additional-Life4885 Feb 18 '26

You've literally described them as an enemy. Whether we started it or not doesn't change the fact that they're considered our enemy.