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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The fact the hero is Muslim and Arab will torpedo any attempt by the Zionist right to milk this, already that fascist slug bibi has had to walk back a statement
The video of Ahmed El Ahmed jumping on top of the shooter and disarming him is incredible and will be internet famous for years to come, people sharing it all over the world while the zionists attempt to spin the story into a blood libel smear against Muslims will polarize people negatively against Israel and zionism, more so than they already are
If I were to go tinfoil hat for a moment, I like to think that this was an attack planned by the Zionists in order to turn public opinion to their favor, but that hero who jumped in threw a wrench into that part of their plans when it turned out he was a Muslim and an Arab.
Anyways back to reality: The world sucks, and it will continue to suck for the foreseeable and unforeseeable future.
I’ve been informed that TikToks are being made and betting on the west’s bloodthirsty islamomisia is defeatist doomerism
It really won’t. They’re rabid and want to kill all Muslims.
Bro I came across a half dozen more TikToks with millions of likes each, so let’s dispense with the defeatism and look at things objectively
The right is still imploding over Israel
A wounded Muslim hero is gonna dominate the news story for days
The zionists and goverment are pissed off at how the narrative collasped and will say or do some shit that will freak out white normies who are deep in a national “Get that man a beer” mood
The cards came out in a royal flush for us, so no dooming
I like your perspective. I think I’m gonna choose hope this time, it’ll be a nice change of pace.
800k likes, it’s already started (TikTok link) zionists are eating shit
Thanks
He’ll yea
Is it too soon to recklessly speculate on Israeli involvement in the planning of this attack? lol
You mean the country that was warning the west will get “attacked by hamas”?
As isreal is part of the west this only gets three Pinocchios
Israel already blaming it on iran
every accusation is a confessionevery self-glorification is an admission
“Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists…
I love the ‘rewards’ line they use, what is Israel if not a reward for the terrorism committed by the Stern gang et al?
Wow, maybe if all the “terrorists” want as a reward is for basic, agreed upon by all parties international resolutions to actually be followed, maybe “terrorism” is actually based and good?
Folks, I’m hearing Netanyahu just opened the oldest vault — and you’re not gonna believe what ethnicity all the biblical figures are.
White Dance Majors from Philly?
It’s so frustrating. The Prime Minister’s own Jewish Envoy w/e the fuck is aligning with the lunatics in Israel publicly blaming the Australian government for this.
We’re gonna see some more utterly fucked legislation real soon.
Fucking pisses me off I can’t even just feel depressed and upset that a place I used to live got shot the fuck up and a bunch of innocent people from a community I have friends in and connections to were murdered and terrorised.
Like, my mind keeps flipping from the natural disgust and sadness at this happening, to fearing for the Muslim and MENA population, to fearing the backlash, over and over.
I accept that this was a terror attack and that I wasn’t who it was directed at, but none the less I’m terrified of what comes next.
Hate to make this about myself, cuz that’s not really what I’m trying to express, it’s just so obscene to see this shit get rolled into political capital before the blood has even been mopped up. This is so fucked.
Updated info on Ahmed al-Ahmed (feel free to edit into body of your post if you want to):
Ahmed al Ahmed’s cousin gives an interview to Al Araby. Full translation in the subtitles, but key highlights:
His full name is Ahmed Fathi Al-Ahmed
Ahmed is Australian, of Syrian origin, from the city of Idlib, from the village of Al-Nayrab
He didn’t know; it was not targeting Jews. He saw an armed man shooting at people. When he saw people dying and being shot, he couldn’t bear it.
At first, he wasn’t thinking about dying. When he saw people dying and bullets flying above his head, he said, “God gave me courage.”
Regret? No, God forbid. On the contrary, it was a heroic act. Why regret it? He is proud that he saved lives. Only God knows how many people would have died.
We live in Australia with all nationalities and sects. In our life, we never think about these things—whether someone is of a certain nationality or religion. Here, we don’t care whether someone is Jewish, Syrian, Muslim, or otherwise
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Hi friend, I’m glad to see you here too. I hope you’re doing well.
Muslim TERRORISTS tackled by monotheist worshiper of a God that is most gracious and most merciful.
If he had shot the attacker with his own gun would he have got into trouble? From the footage I saw today it looks like the unarmed attacker went back and got another gun and kept firing.
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)
Yeah, the tactically sound action would have been to secure the shooter. As you would assume he had a sidearm the only valid move is to shoot him. However, that violates the states monopoly of violence so you would have assume that would end poorly.
Like, give the way things have gone if the defender was a woman you would expect her to face charges of some kind. I don’t know about Aus, but I the US women defending themselves or others are frequently punished.
The state’s intrest is not that this works well or has a happy ending. In this senario multiple state actors benefit from this going poorly. The primary intrest of thr state in this moment is to preserve their monopoly of violence.
I don’t see any scenario where someone would be charged for tackling a gunman in Australia, and if that were to happen it absolutely wouldn’t be worse for a woman. If anything the exact opposite
Editing to add: executing the shooter would not be the sound option by any metric unless they were actively reaching for another gun.
You can’t determine if they have a side arm in the time it takes for them to draw a fire a side arm. Or well, most of us can’t. I know I would be pissing my peepee pants and wouldn’t be able to. Given that they have shown a willingness to shoot people it is the valid tactical choice. Ethically and legally are different questions.
I don’t see any scenario where someone would be charged for tackling a gunman in Australia
"I thought, ‘If I’m going to do anything, now is probably the time to do it’. I sprinted past everyone and hit [him] with [a] chair.
I forgot about this line.
What a guy
I don’t think so. He might have gotten arrested but I doubt he would even be charged, or more likely charges would have been dropped after investigation.
People have defended themselves with firearms to deadly effect and avoided prosecution. Thinking specifically of some elderly woman with an unlicensed shotgun who killed a guy in the last handful of years, her case would have been harder to make since she had the gun and, I guess, had forethought to use it as a self defense tool.
Technically if you have a registered firearm and you happen to have it out of secure storage for a legitimate reason, like cleaning the thing or heading out to a gun range, and if you find yourself needing to defend yourself in a situation where deadly force is necessary, then using your gun in self defense is theoretically permissible.
The hero in this situation didn’t bring a weapon or plan for violence and he came under fire from the disarmed guy’s accomplice almost immediately. He had no way of knowing whether the man he disarmed would pull out a handgun or a knife, but he did know the man was intent on murder and that the attack was ongoing.
So yeah, I think he could’ve shot him without breaking the law. That said I’ve written a lot of qualifying words here for a reason, the law is not applied evenly. A more common scenario is knives- I’ve seen contradictory outcomes from people killing in self defense, where one situation resulted in no charges filed and another almost identical situation resulted in prosecution.
He was smart not to shoot. Restrained, IMO. Having that gun in his hands could’ve easily gotten him shot by a cop regardless of righteousness, so it was wise to put it down once the shooter had retreated far enough away.
It depends on if anyone gets caught in the crossfire.
If someone dies because he started shooting he’d be arrested and would likely see court, but I’m unsure on if a jury would convict.
If he’d just shot the guy I don’t think he’d see jail but he would probably be arrested and processed.
