You answered your own question: antisemitism.
How was it retaliation?
And why do you think hatred of Jews is provoking antisemitic attacks right now?
There has been no reference to his religion, but his name is Ahmed Al Ahmed. Some wag on Reddit suggested that he deserves a third Ahmed.
What do you think made these two clearly antisemitic people decide to pick up their guns and shoot up a Chanukah festival?
This particular attack absolutely is unique. Nothing on this level has been seen before. Why did they do it? Why did they do it here and why did they do it now? I suspect that we'll never get definitive answers to these questions, but I speculate that it could be retaliation for Israel's actions in Gaza. I have no proof of this, but it would not surprise me if it were true.
Australia hasn't had a mass terrorist attack against the Jewish community before and I had been hopeful we never would.
It looks to me that you are committed to “understand” the reasons for the attack. I’m not going to play that stupid game. I don’t give a ◊◊◊◊ about what reasons those evil cowards had bouncing around their heads. I do detest victim blaming though.
I'm not blaming the victims. What could I blame them for? Being Jewish? No. The blame for the attacks is entirely on the father and son who made the conscious decision to take their licensed firearms out of their storage, travel to where they knew a Chanukah festival had started, and open fire on the crowd. Nobody is to blame but them. Nobody.
I can see that you are desperate for a justification, and Gaza does it for you.
Reason, not justification.
Acknowledged. This particular antisemitic terrorist attack is unique in Australia's recent history. And you can at least acknowledge that antisemitism has been on the rise since the Gaza attacks.
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A group that adopts the motto “from the river to the sea” is not one I take a lot of notice of.
The stupid ◊◊◊◊ probably couldn't find either Britain or Australia on a map. I'm surprised she didn't claim this happened in Austria.
I already told you. What about my answer doesn't suffice?
That might be true in Australia. It is not true globally. This scale of attack is actually pretty pedestrian by global standards. It's a regular occurrence elsewhere. Have you been paying attention to what's going on in Nigeria?
They did it in Australia because that's where they live.
They did it now because it's during a Jewish religious holiday. Islamic terrorists like to kill Jews on Jewish holidays.
Again, that may be the excuse, but it's not the reason.
Have you heard of the crusades, the holocaust? Hatred of others is not unique to one particular religion. Christians certainly killed Jews and Muslims (and other christians). if you read the bible you'll read about Jews destroying whole cultures. We need to move beyond blaming a religion and accepting the fault is in ourselves, as humans.
So? Hamas started the war over 2 years ago and did absolutely nothing to stop it, sacrificing thousands of people they profess to govern. I believe Hamas is ultimately culpable for the toll of this war.
If you truly think the war started only two years ago you are sadly ignorant of the last eighty years of history. The war may have flared two years ago but it certainly didn't start two years ago. Hamas did make several overtures to make peace with Israel prior to the current events; rejected by Israel. 'From the sea to the river' is the policy of Likud the party of the current Israeli prime minister. Why should it be wrong for Arabs to have 'from the river to the sea' as a policy but acceptable for the Israeli government to have 'the Sea to the River' as a policy?
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