My country has picked up a few "Americanisms" over the years

 beginning with "cowboy' movies and small boys getting cowboy outfits complete with toy guns for Christmas or birthday gifts. 

Foods soon followed with movie theatres selling giant buckets of salted buttered hot popcorn along with giant buckets of "soda" aka soft drinks.

Speech has also become somewhat Americanised. There are other examples, but just yesterday I saw the very worst kind of copying.

Right here in my own largely peaceful, accepting country, A Hannukah Festival on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, was ruined by hateful thugs with guns randomly shooting into the crowd, injuring and killing bfore they were apprehended. 

I believe one of the offenders also died. 

These peaceful people celebrating the way they have done for years, were attacked because they and their festival were/are Jewish. 

WHY????

What the heck is so wrong with being Jewish that others feel the need to wipe them from the Earth? 

I don't get it. I JUST DON'T GET IT. 

It's senseless. No other religion is attacked as badly as this one. 

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  1. Linda's Relaxing LairDecember 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM

    Senseless indeed. Very sad. Here in Montreal and probably the rest of Quebec and even the rest of Canada 🇨🇦 have increased police presence around Synagogues to ensure the safety of anyone celebrating Hanukkah.
    I pray 🙏 that this hatred for Jewish people and any hatred towards anyone, Jewish or otherwise, will stop.

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    1. RiverDecember 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM

      Linda's Relaxing Lair; thank you. I suspect from now on they will celebrate indoors with safety in mind.

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  2. HelsDecember 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM

    My husband Joe lived in Bondi, until we married and he left Sydney for ever. But Bondi beach was the centre of his Sydney Soul, surfing each morning before 5 years high school and before university. He was in tears when he saw the Bondi Massacre yesterday, and is meeting with his old Sydney friends tonight to honour the people who were killed and wounded, and to share memories of their teen years there.

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    1. RiverDecember 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM

      Hels; thank you. I have been to Bondi only once, many years ago, just a quick visit to see what all the fuss was about, it looked much the same as any other beach to me. How can such atrocious things happen in such beautiful places? More importantly, Why? We know they hate, but is that any reason to kill?

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  3. Margaret DDecember 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM

    So sad, R. I also ask why?

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