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Foreign. Hello, it's Miranda with a new mini episode of Pod Force 1 to start off your week. This new feature is a little more topical and more to do with my day to day job as a columnist for the New York Post. When I zoom in on a topic that I think will interest you, today's subject is close to my heart. It's the tragic anti Semitic massacre in my longtime hometown of Sydney, Australia. This terrorist attack on the beautiful Bondi beach was committed by a father and son Islamist duo. It's the worst terrorist attack in Australia's history and it comes on the heels of two years of unrelenting antisemitism and pro Hamas hate marches. Australia's October 7 happened in the most unlikely place. A balmy summer's evening in the most iconic beach in Australia, known for laid back surfers, Instagram influencers, fitness freaks, hippies, billionaires, leather skinned locals and decidedly Haram topless sunbathers. Bondi beach is a bustling inner suburban crescent of golden sand on the Pacific where $30 million houses nestle among 1960s blonde brick walk ups crammed with Irish and British backpackers who sling cocktails and wait tables at the buzzy eateries along Campbell Parade. On Sunday, this slice of paradise became the latest battlefront of the anti Jew bloodshed that has seized the world since Israel was attacked by pales Palestinian terrorists on October 7, 2023. And it is all so sickeningly predictable. Unchecked antisemitism, cowardly appeasement, lax policing and foolish immigration decisions half a century in gestation have coalesced in multicultural southwestern Sydney, an hour's drive from Bondi. Add to the mix strict gun control for law abiding Australians, but not for the homegrown Islamist terrorists and gangbangers who only last month were shooting 50 rounds from an AK47 house in the multicultural suburb of Kazula, six miles down Cow Pasture Road from Bonny Rig where the alleged gunman lived. It was the perfect cocktail for violence to erupt. In the two years since the Hamas attack on Israel, synagogues in Sydney have been firebombed, kosher restaurants vandalized, cars outside Jewish homes torched, and rancid anti Semitic graffiti has become ubiquitous along the Bondi Promenade. Kill Jews is the mantra. Every weekend for at least the last two years, downtown Sydney has been shut down by Palestinian protests. In August, tens of thousands of people waving Palestinian flags and wearing now fashionable keffiyehs marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to demand Israel stop the genocide. In Gaza, they were accompanied by the Sydney mayor, the former state premier, labor members of Parliament and assorted local celebrities. The point was to badge a beloved Sydney icon with their hateful cause, just as they did to the beautiful Sydney Opera House on October 10, 2023, when a mob waving Palestinian flags invaded a peaceful memorial service for the thousands of Jews murdered, raped, tortured, kidnapped and traumatized by Hamas's terrorist attack on Israel just two days earlier. Interrupting the mourners grief was the anti Semitic hatred that has taken root in Australia. F the Jews, the invaders shrieked Allah Akbar. Globalized the Intifada. Well, we saw exactly what globalize the Intifada means in Bondi beach on Sunday. A father and son terror tag team with Arabic names and shotguns calmly picking off innocent Jewish families at a hanukkah celebration. In 10 unmolested minutes, as police sirens whined from afar, Sajid Akram, 50, and his son Navid Akram, 24, slaughtered at least 16 innocents and injured 42, including a Holocaust survivor, cops and a child in the deadliest terrorist attack in Australian history. One of the men reportedly is known to police and has been assessed by counterterrorism experts as posing a, quote, low level threat. Sydney's Daily Telegraph also reported that he had, quote, Islamist fundamentalist views. No kidding. It is sickening, said a Jewish friend whose daughter had to run for cover when the killers opened fire. Unfortunately, it's 100% unsurprising. Our country is filled with radicals who are quite capable of this and our government is doing nothing to combat it. End quote. That's an understatement. If anything left wing Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his cabinet have appeased anti Semites and been hostile to Israel. When Albanese was finally shamed into appointing an envoy for antisemitism six months ago, he simultaneously appointed an envoy for Islamophobia, even though it's Jews who are being attacked and vilified. Much like the Minnesota Democrats, Australia's ruling Labor Party is engaged in a cynical political ploy to pander to its Muslim bloc of voters who outnumber Jews 7 to 1. In September, Albanese flew off to the UN General assembly and formally recognized Palestine as a state, joining the uk, Canada and France. As Trump said at the time, the stunt only emboldened Hamas at a crucial time and threatened to sabotage hostage releases. Last year, during a Middle east diplomatic trip, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong visited Gaza but refused to visit the sites of the October 7th massacre in Israel. Australia's Immigration Minister, Tony Burke, who has been busy organising visas for Gazans was just busted having a secret meeting with officials to repatriate ISIS brides from Syria, asking them to make sure the media didn't find out. Burke represents the biggest Muslim electorate in the country in southwest Sydney, home to the notorious Lakemba mosque, where the senior imam once suggested that women who don't wear hijabs are asking to be sexually assaulted. Quote, if you take out uncovered meat and place it outside and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat? Sheikh Taj El Din Hilali said in a Ramadan sermon in 2006, the uncovered meat is the problem, end quote. This was just after Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from South West Sydney had preyed on at least 70 girls and young women whom they called Aussie pigs and sluts because they were not Muslim. You deserved it because you're an Australian, victims were told. Unlike in England, the racist Muslim gang rapists went to jail, the 21 year old ringleader with a sentence of 55 years later reduced on appeal and the epidemic ended. But justice only prevailed because of the refusal of one courageous prosecutor and a couple of tough judges to bow to the stifling political correctness of the time, which pretended that the gang rapes were just like any other crime with no religious or racial motivations. The few journalists who reported the truth were labelled Islamophobic and accused of lying about the facts to create a moral panic. The prosecutor, Margaret Kinneen, resisted the pressure to sanitise victims accounts and her reward was to be be heckled as a racist by feminists at a conference on violence against women. But that was the last stand in Australia against the Islamophobia lie that social engineers around the world use to demean anyone who speaks honestly about the cultural and religious fault lines in the migration happy west that led to 9, 11 and endless social disruption. Fast forward another two decades after record immigration and refugee resettlement placing daunting pressures on house prices and social integration, with cops frightened to offend Labor's favourite voting bloc and authorities condoning unrelenting antisemitism, what did they expect would happen? Netanyahu slammed Albanese on Sunday, saying he had warned him four months ago that his cowardly actions would fuel antisemitism. You did nothing to curb the cancer cells that were growing inside your country. You took no action, he said. You let the disease spread and the result is the horrific attacks on Jews we saw today. End quote. Albanese did not respond. His initial statement about the Bondi beach massacre did not mention Jews or terrorism. But he must have realized that his countrymen will no longer tolerate Islamist Jew hatred. In a later press conference, he described the massacre as a, quote, act of evil. Antisemitism, terrorism. An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian. It's just a pity it took the carnage to wake him up. Don't forget to come back on Wednesday for our next full episode of Pod Force One. This week we sit down with two American heroes, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler. At great cost to themselves, these dedicated public servants exposed how a corrupt Justice Department obstructed and slow walked the criminal investigation of former first son Hunter Biden. Due to their courage, justice kind of prevailed. At least until Joe Biden wielded his pardon power using his own pen, of course, not the auto pen. But I'm glad to report that Gary and Joe are now doing what they do best, rooting out wrongdoers back at the irs. They've been promoted so life is looking up for them at least. And I hope you can tune in. Have a wonderful pre Christmas week.