Gaza explodes in Sydney

THE massacre of fifteen Australian Jewish citizens and wounding several more from that community at Sydney's Bondi Beach on 14 December - a day marking the beginning of Jewish Hanukkah festival - by a father-son pair of Muslim gunmen has been portrayed by the Western media as an act of IS inspired Islamist terrorism unleashed against world Jewry.

- By Dr. Ameer Ali

But whether that savagery was a spontaneous reaction by two angry Muslim men schooled in Islamist ideology to seek revenge against Israel’s genocide in Gaza or whether it is linked to Netanyahu’s anger at the Australian Prime Minister’s decision to campaign and vote at the UN for an independent Palestinian state and whether there was another hidden force that orchestrated the whole tragedy never caught the attention of Western media.

The fact that Ahmad al-Ahmad the “hero” who grabbed the gun from the father-killer was shot by someone at the scene raises questions that need answer and calls for an independent investigation of the entire tragedy. Why was this man shot? Was it because he had become a spoiler of an intended drama? If so, what was the plot of that drama? From whichever angle one wishes to look at the massacre one cannot dismiss its link with Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Firstly, Israel has a history of going to bed with Islamists to promote its own strategic and military agenda in the Middle East. For instance, in an interview to UK Sunday Times, Israel’s former army commander Gadi Eisenkot admitted that Israel supplied arms to ISIS fighters to topple Syria’s Asad regime. Likewise, Israel’s former defence minister and Leader of the Opposition Avigdor Lieberman accused Netanyahu Government of supplying weapons to ISIS backed gangs to fight Hamas in Gaza. The notorious gang leader Yasser Abu Shabab who was killed by Hamas recently was found operating with weapons supplied by Israel. Even Hamas for that matter was originally an Israeli creation set up to counter the popularity of Mahmud Abbas’ Palestine Authority.