For 20 minutes earlier this week, a father and son duo fired into a crowd of Jews celebrating Hanukkah, killing at least 15 and wounding more than 40 before police shot and killed one of the perpetrators. An unarmed bystander disarmed the other.
Australian authorities have responded by calling for more gun control, but political commentator and former Democrat Natalie Beisner thinks "it's crazy to blame the guns."
She pointed out on Fox News Monday that one of the gunmen had six legally obtained firearm licenses, "which is hard to do in Australia," as it has some of the strictest gun laws in the world.
Former Trump White House official Camryn Kinsey said at some point, the island nation is "going to have to realize that the gun doesn't pull the trigger; the person does."
Dr. Warren Goldstein, the chief rabbi of South Africa, argues that what is needed is more Muslim control.
"The mass murder terror attack in Sydney, Australia, was not simply an antisemitic incident that got out of control," he asserts. "It was a professional military operation conducted as part of the global jihadist war being waged on every continent."
In his recent video address (below), Rabbi Goldstein says Australians tolerate an environment that indulges the demonization of Israel and Jews, allows people to chant "Gas the Jews" on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and even endorses the genocidal slogan "from the river to the sea."
"Globalize the intifada means exactly that – hunting Jews everywhere," the rabbi warns. "It is not a protest movement; it is not resistance; it is a jihad of murder, terror, and destruction."
He asserts this is not an overexuberant protest or a call for a Palestinian state.
"The global version has nothing to do with a Palestinian state; it never has. Their slogan says it all: 'First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people,'" Rabbi Goldstein notes.
"When Jews are targeted for being Jews, that's not a gun problem," Beisner told Kinsey. "That's a hate problem, a culture problem, and an assimilation problem."
Arguing that nobody should be "unfairly targeted" for their race, their religion, or their political beliefs, Kinsey pointed out that some religions and ideologies "are just not compatible with Western civilization" because targeting others is what they do.
"We must fight to protect it," she told Beisner. "That includes advocating for secure borders, advocating for free speech. Violence is not the answer."
Rabbi Goldstein urges the West to recognize what is going on, or it will face "mortal peril."
