Middle East Eye Bondi Beach attack: How western allies are enabling Netanyahu's grotesque logic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew precisely the wrong conclusion from Sunday’s terror attack at Bondi Beach - and western leaders and media are once again buying into his warped logic. Predictably, Netanyahu aimed to exploit the attack - in which more than a dozen people were killed by two gunmen at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney - to implicitly justify Israel ’s slaughter and maiming of tens of thousands of children in Gaza over the past two years. Netanyahu said he had written to the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, a few months earlier to blame him not only for supposedly failing to tackle antisemitism in his country, but for fuelling it by recognising Palestinian statehood. Quoting from the letter, he said : “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.” Read more: Bondi Beach attack: How western allies are enabling Netanyahu's grotesque logic