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Bret Stephens

By Bret Stephens

Opinion Columnist

There is a measure of comfort to be taken in the fact that Sunday’s terrorist attack at a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which left at least 15 people dead and many more injured, also produced a hero. A man described in news accounts — but not yet confirmed by The Times — as a local shopkeeper named Ahmed al-Ahmed single-handedly disarmed one of two terrorists and survived being shot twice, in a scene that was captured on camera and has since gone viral.

That act of bravery not only saved lives; it also served as an essential........

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