To watch in rage as Muslim murderers stood on the bridge, shooting for long, agonizing minutes at Jews, children, women and elderly people who had come to celebrate Hanukkah, without any response from Australian security forces. What a disgrace, and what a desecration of God's name.
It is not only Australia that has changed; almost the entire West has changed. Western civilization is being slowly conquered by Islam, with no response from the Christian world. The more common reaction is criticism of Israel, as if that will save those being overrun. Caught in between, in this clash of civilizations, are the Jews, still clinging to the altar horns of democratic states, hoping someone will wake up and come to their senses.
It will not happen. Progressive governments are captive to their Muslim voters and to wealthy Muslim organizations, and they prefer them over the future of their own countries. The government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will make some notion of noise and issue foolish statements, but for the Jews who were murdered, it no longer matters. There is no future for Jews in Australia, not in Britain, and certainly not in France, Belgium or Canada.
The Australian government did not fight terrorism or antisemitism; it encouraged it through its actions and statements. The government in Canberra did little when synagogues were burned, did not arrest anyone when, at the foot of the Sydney Opera House, a frenzied mob chanted "Gas the Jews." Muslims waving Hezbollah and Hamas flags, along with those of other terrorist organizations, demonstrated freely. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong was apparently the only minister to visit Israel during the war, yet did not find the time to visit the site of the massacre.
Where was Australian intelligence? After all, they expelled the Iranian ambassador. Did they monitor incitement in mosques or examine bank accounts for the transfer of terror funds? The terrorists knew that this was the easiest place to carry out attacks. So, they did almost nothing, yet knew how to accuse Israel with lies, put obstacles in the wheels of the war on terror, and above all, the Australian government went so far as to declare recognition of a Palestinian terror state. What does it care? Now it is getting a terror state within its own borders.
If abandoning the Jews is the sin, the punishment will fall on all of Australia. Jews are the litmus test of a society. Pogroms against them are the prelude to attacks on other minorities and ultimately to the collapse of society. Prime Minister Albanese has abandoned Australia's Jews to their fate. He will not protect them.
Rest for a generation only to be uprooted again
About 20 years ago, I visited Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. Only a few Jews remain there. In the early 1980s, when dictator Robert Mugabe rose to power, most of them fled to Australia. Jews arrived in Rhodesia at the end of the 19th century from Rhodes. Those who did not migrate to Africa and remained in Rhodes were sent to Auschwitz during World War II. Where did the Jews of Rhodes come from? From Sicily, at the end of the 15th century, after they were expelled by order of the Spanish crown along with the rest of Spanish Jewry.
And so, the Jews wandered from Sicily to Rhodes, from there to Rhodesia, which became Zimbabwe, from which they fled to Australia, resting for a generation or two, only to be uprooted again. And now where to? Has the time not come to understand the verdict of history?
Dear Jews, our brothers and sisters, what are you waiting for? You have no future in the Diaspora. Come home. Make Aliyah. This is your place.
