Police inaction, pro-Hamas mobs, and Jewish leaders addicted to words... It’s pure luck a Bondi-like attack hasn't happened here. Yet

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The Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration massacre, Australia’s deadliest terrorist incident, which resulted in 15 dead and 40 wounded, continues to dominate my thoughts. One particular witness account haunts me. A mother, separated from her three-year-old daughter, found some of the few police officers present. She told a journalist: “These police officers were hiding behind a car… I tried to grab one of their guns. Then one of them grabbed me and said ‘no.’”

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Here, I see encapsulated diaspora Jews’ present dilemma in the form of a plea and response: Protect us, state law enforcement agent. No? Then allow us the means to protect ourselves. Also, no.

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Our immigrant forebears believed that in democratic melting pots they would be entitled to the same protection from violence as any other minority. Bondi clarifies that our security in the West has always been contingent on their being no political downside to its provision. Fear of organized Islamism’s growing power outstripping law enforcement’s power to contain it activated the contingency in Australia.

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