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Speaker 1: If you've just woken up twelve people dead at Bondai Beach.

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Speaker 1: After Bondai now seems obvious that anti Semitism is out

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Speaker 1: the gate, particularly in Australia with a large population who

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Speaker 1: hail from the Middle East, but increasingly so in this

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Speaker 1: country and increasingly so around the world. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think the genie is going to be put back into

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Speaker 1: the bottle anytime soon. The conflict in Gaza, starting with

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Speaker 1: a Hamas attack on the music festival in October twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three, has only intensified the conflict between faiths, and

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Speaker 1: of course we don't want a victim blame, but Israel's

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Speaker 1: reaction to the original attack has not calm the situation,

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Speaker 1: but in fact further radicalize Muslims. And I've presented talkback

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Speaker 1: on the Gaza situation over the past two years. I

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Speaker 1: was always at pains to separate the Israeli state from

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Speaker 1: the Jewish faith, but that has been impossible to do

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Speaker 1: for both sides, and not helped by NETANYAHUO, who goes

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Speaker 1: out of his way to make sure you know, the

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Speaker 1: faith is the state and the state is the faith.

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Speaker 1: Any talk of the Ghazan bloodshed by Israel is always

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Speaker 1: pulled back and sheeted home to October seventh, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three in the moves by Hamas, and any talk about

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Speaker 1: the Hamas atrocity is always linked back to the Israeli countermoves.

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Speaker 1: Any criticism of Israel's actions is always branded anti Semitism

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Speaker 1: by supporters of Israel. Both sides now locked in a

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Speaker 1: deadly dance with no middle ground of peace, a dance

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Speaker 1: that has been there since nineteen forty eight, but today

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Speaker 1: is more furious than ever. Blessed are the peacemakers, they say,

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Speaker 1: but where are they? One reported blessing is that the

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Speaker 1: Australian hero who disarmed a Bondai attacker was himself an Arab,

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Speaker 1: a local fruit shop owner, hopefully showing that the killers

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Speaker 1: are not indicative of all Muslims, and hopefully that might

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Speaker 1: ease the wave of Islamophobia that is almost inevitable. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. For more from early edition with

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bridge US Live to News Talks. It be from

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