The local playing out of foreign conflicts and tensions is also behind a national mood of alarm following 50 hours of horror in Sydney.
“No man is an island,” John Donne, the English poet, once wrote. Exactly 400 years later, the truth of Donne’s words has rocked Australia.
Police promptly dismissed any terrorist motivation for the attack as Bondi Junction, a quintessential part of middle Australia, plunged into grief.Two days later, 53-year-old Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and another priest, Father Isaac Royel, 39, were stabbed during an evening service at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, about 34 kilometres from the Sydney CBD.
Attempting to reassure the nation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has talked of the “overwhelming majority” of Australians respecting others and tolerating difference. Meanwhile, starvation and disease among young Palestinian children in Gaza are growing, according to the UN. Writing in the same paper, Peter Jennings, onetime head of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and a former adviser to Liberal prime minister John Howard, raised the issue of whether the church stabber was “in any way connected” to local anti-Israel protests.“It is clear that they are a permissive cauldron for radicalisation,” Jennings wrote, and “some protests have been openly violent” and “all are latently aggressive and scare many Australians.
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