cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/13571
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process.
Ahmed El Ahmed, presumably from either Lebanon, Syria or, ironically, Palestine, went up unarmed against one of the attackers, wrested his gun away and turned it on the terrorist, forcing him to flee, as footage shown by Al Jazeera demonstrates:
A Muslim hero at Bondi Beach
Ahmed, a 43-year-old father-of-two who owns a local fruit shop was then shot by the other Bondi Beach terrorist, wounding him in the shoulder and hand.
5Pillars reported that speaking a man called Mustafa confirmed it was his cousin, 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, who “likely saved countless lives when he confronted and wrestled with the gunman and was now in hospital”.
According to 7NEWS, “Ahmed was shot twice during the commotion and was due to undergo surgery later that night. Mustafa said his cousin… had no experience with guns and was simply walking past when he made the decision to intervene”:
He’s in hospital and we don’t know exactly what’s going on inside.
Netanyahu at first claimed that the Bondi Beach hero was:
a Jew who pounces on one of the murderers, takes his weapon, and saves who knows how many lives.
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He has since corrected the record:
Netanyahu posted on X blaming the Bondi Beach attack on Australia:
On August 17, about 4 months ago, I sent Prime Minister Albanese of Australia a letter in which I gave him warning that the Australian government’s policy was promoting and encouraging antisemitism in Australia. I wrote: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
A Palestinian-American journalist correctly observed that “Basically Netanyahu is saying that Australia got what it had coming for not supporting his genocide in Gaza even more than it already does”.
Netanyahu also said that his regime will carry out extrajudicial murders of anyone it considers responsible for the attack:
They’ll spend the rest of their brief anxious lives knowing that Israel will hunt them, find them and ruthlessly dispose of them. That is U.S. policy, this is Israel’s policy. It’s our policy in Gaza, in Lebanon, anywhere around us.
Despite its various supposed ceasefire agreements with Lebanon, Syria and Palestine – one of which the Bondi Beach hero comes from – Israel continues to bomb civilians in each of those countries.
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Yes and no.
There would be some formal process, prosecutors and police might investigate and decide not to pursue, we don't have a grand jury system so it might go to court just to be dismissed by a magistrate but I don't think it would get that far because everyone would agree the circumstances were extreme (and a jury wouldn't convict)