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The extremists behind anti-Semitic Gaza ‘celebrations’ · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Christianamian. It's Wednesday, October eighth, twenty twenty five. Sex
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  Speaker 2: offenders who produce and share child abuse material should be
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  Speaker 2: jailed for at least five years, according to the Federal Opposition.
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  Speaker 2: It called for an expansion of the sentencing regime in
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  Speaker 2: a letter to Attorney General Michelle Rowland after The Australian
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  Speaker 2: revealed a transgender parent who abused their five year old
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  Speaker 2: daughter on at least nineteen occasions was sentenced to four
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  Speaker 2: years and nine months in prison.
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  Speaker 1: That exclusive story.
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  Speaker 2: Is live right now at The Australian dot com dot
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  Speaker 2: a U as Jewish people in Israel and around the
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  Speaker 2: globe gathered to commemorate the second anniversary of the atrocities
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  Speaker 2: committed by Hamas militants on October seven. In twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: pro Palestinian extremists celebrated a demonstration in Sydney's West attracted hundreds,
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  Speaker 2: while pro Harmusk graffiti scarred buildings across Melbourne. Today, Chief
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  Speaker 2: International Correspondent Cameron Stewart joins ME Western Sydney October seven,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, two years on from the deadliest single
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  Speaker 2: day attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Hundreds gathered to
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  Speaker 2: praise what they call the Palestinian resistance.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that liberation is coming, that will receive our justice,
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  Speaker 3: and that victory has around them.
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  Speaker 1: Corner religious leaders preach glory to the martyrs, to.
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  Speaker 3: They remember our martyrs as they resist in justice and oppression.
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  Speaker 3: We also recognize that our martyrs are a thorn in
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  Speaker 3: the throats of scientists.
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  Speaker 2: This is the scene at Paul Keating Park in Bankstown
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday night. It was pitched by organizers from the
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  Speaker 2: Stand for Palestine group as a united community protest for
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  Speaker 2: Gaza with the title Glory for Our Martyrs. Speakers included
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  Speaker 2: Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun, who previously voiced his pride at the
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  Speaker 2: atrocities perpetuated by Homas in twenty twenty three. Stand for
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  Speaker 2: Palestine is linked with his Bootterier, a fundamentalist Islamic group
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  Speaker 2: that exists to unite all Muslims under one Caliphate. It's
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  Speaker 2: designated a terrorist organization in the United Kingdom, Germany and elsewhere,
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  Speaker 2: and was active in pro Palestine protests and encampments on
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  Speaker 2: Australian university campuses. The rallies organizers said they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: send a message to the Australian government to end its
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  Speaker 2: quote complicit in what they call a genocide by Israel
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  Speaker 2: on the Palestinian people.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting that at the moment Hamas is considering Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump's twenty point piece plan, which is overwhelmingly good for
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  Speaker 4: the Palestinian people in Gaza in the circumstances they now
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  Speaker 4: find themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent.
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  Speaker 4: It would stop the fighting, it would allow unlimited aid
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  Speaker 4: into fix the Manachectarian situation. It would create a technocratic
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  Speaker 4: government that is not Israel and is not a mass
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  Speaker 4: And yet it's interesting that you have these extremist groups
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  Speaker 4: organizing this Israeli. Clearly they are not happy with this concept.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they want to see a perpetual conflict that
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  Speaker 4: eventually eradicates the state of Israel. And it's really interesting.
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  Speaker 4: I think that with this Israeli and some of the
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  Speaker 4: horrific graffiti that we saw in Melbourne, there's been a
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  Speaker 4: silence from the peak Islamic bodies about it, from the
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  Speaker 4: Australian National Imam Council, Lebanese Muslim Association For example, two
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  Speaker 4: very important Islamic organizations have not come out and condemned
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  Speaker 4: the notion of the rally in Bankstown, and as far
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  Speaker 4: as I'm aware, they have not condemned the anti Islamic
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  Speaker 4: pro Hamasca feeding in Melbourne. So I really think there
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  Speaker 4: is a case to be made that the leadership of
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  Speaker 4: the Islamic community in Australia, by its silence, is really
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  Speaker 4: contributing to the fraying, if you like, of social cohesiveness.
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  Speaker 4: But of course it's hugely provocative to have it actually
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  Speaker 4: on October seven. It's obviously offended understandably, I think not
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  Speaker 4: only the Jewish community in Australia, but a lot of
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  Speaker 4: other people as well, And it's certainly a divisive and
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  Speaker 4: deliberately divisive move by this group.
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  Speaker 2: On Tuesday, another pro Palestine group, the Palestine Action Group,
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  Speaker 2: appeared before Justice Ian Harrison in the New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court. They want to march from Hyde Park in
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  Speaker 2: the center of Sydney to the Opera House on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: where they'll demand the federal government sanctions Israel for what
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  Speaker 2: they call two years of genocide.
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  Speaker 5: For yesterday, you had a game defending our rights of
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  Speaker 5: protests We're marching because Israel is committing a genocide against
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  Speaker 5: Palacidians in Gaza sixty seven.
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  Speaker 2: The New South Wales Police say the Palestine Action Group's plan,
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  Speaker 2: which could involve up to ten thousand people, is a
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  Speaker 2: threat to public safety and they want the court to
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  Speaker 2: stop it from going ahead. But this is a fight
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  Speaker 2: the New South Wales Police have lost.
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  Speaker 4: Before a major pro Palestine protests march across the Sydney
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  Speaker 4: Harbor Bridges being allowed to go ahead today after being
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  Speaker 4: given the green light by the Supreme Court the World.
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  Speaker 2: The Palestine Action Group is also fighting for something else.
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  Speaker 2: They're asking the court to make a positive finding of genocide.
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  Speaker 2: They say the Court will need to weigh that up
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  Speaker 2: when deciding if the police are justified in trying to
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  Speaker 2: shut the march down. There's potentially a separate demonstration going
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  Speaker 2: ahead at the Sydney Opera House on Sunday. Cam Many
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  Speaker 2: people will remember a violent demonstration that happened on the
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  Speaker 2: steps of the Opera House in twenty twenty three, just
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  Speaker 2: two days after the attack by Hamas and before Israel
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  Speaker 2: had taken any action in retaliation. How do you balance
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  Speaker 2: the right to protest with the sinister undertones to some
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  Speaker 2: of these demonstrations that have played out over the last
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  Speaker 2: two years.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great question and it really is a fundamental
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  Speaker 4: debate in Australian society right now. I mean, obviously it's
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  Speaker 4: hugely important to have the right to demonstrate, free speech,
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  Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. Most Australians would broadly agree with
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  Speaker 4: all of that. But it's interesting that I think this
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  Speaker 4: is being questioned in the way it hasn't been questioned
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  Speaker 4: for some time, simply because we've seen this devisive protest.
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  Speaker 4: You've had counter protests as well. You've got very nasty
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  Speaker 4: discourse in society, You've got very ugly racist graffiti. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: we've had the burning of synagogue. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 4: been a horrific two years as far as social cohesiveness goes.
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  Speaker 4: I think there is a debate, and I think a
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  Speaker 4: reasonable debate as to well, look, all of the freedoms
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  Speaker 4: that we've taken for granted can't be taken for granted
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  Speaker 4: if they're being abused. And so I think what we're
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  Speaker 4: seeing here is a subtle redrawing of the lines to
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  Speaker 4: actually ask questions about whether some groups, especially with an
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  Speaker 4: activist racist and violent undertone with their agenda should be
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  Speaker 4: allowed to freely protest, and I think the Opera House
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  Speaker 4: is a very good example of that. IAM mean, the
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  Speaker 4: courts will determine what can and can't be done there,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean the October nine protest, of course in
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three is one of the ugliest demonstrations we've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen in Australia, and the authorities were completely blindsided.
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  Speaker 4: They just did not make the effort they should have
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  Speaker 4: to stop that, and I think now they're trying to
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  Speaker 4: prevent a repeat of that. But again, hugely provocative to
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  Speaker 4: have this happening around about the October seven remembrance, and
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  Speaker 4: I think it will, yes, it will spark further debate
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  Speaker 4: as to what is acceptable and unacceptable as far as
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  Speaker 4: protests are in this country.
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  Speaker 2: There are thousands of nice, well intentioned people who don't
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  Speaker 2: like to see hospitals blown up and Palestinian civilians being killed,
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  Speaker 2: and who might have marched across the Sydney Harbor Bridge
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  Speaker 2: a couple of months ago, but who aren't as engaged
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  Speaker 2: to the same degree as the extremists organizing these rallies
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  Speaker 2: and demonstrations in City and Melbourne. What are those people
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  Speaker 2: thinking on a day like today, do you think.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a really good question, because I think
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  Speaker 4: the anti Israeli protests in and around October seven are
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  Speaker 4: very much organized by the activist rump of the Propealstinian movement,
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  Speaker 4: and that's the rump of activists who have been the
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  Speaker 4: most anti Semitic, who have been the most violent, and
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  Speaker 4: you have been the most unpleasant in every single way.
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  Speaker 4: And yet there are a huge number of mums and dads,
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  Speaker 4: if you like, protesters who have been out protesting every week,
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  Speaker 4: the terrible civilian death toll in Gaza being critical of
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  Speaker 4: Israel in the political way a perfectly valid political way.
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  Speaker 4: And it's interesting because I think the actions of the
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  Speaker 4: hard liners in holding these rallies, in some of the
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  Speaker 4: graffiti we've seen, absolutely is counterproductive to the overall pro
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  Speaker 4: Palestinian cause in Australia. It must really frustrate and annoy
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the mums and dads protesters who've gone
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  Speaker 4: along and feel that their cause, if you like, is
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  Speaker 4: being hijacked by extremists. So I actually suspect out there
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  Speaker 4: in Middle Australia there is a revulsion against this sort
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  Speaker 4: of extremist activist and obviously very nastily timed demonstrations.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up.
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  Speaker 2: Are the government and law enforcement doing enough to curb
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  Speaker 2: anti Semitism in Australia. On Tuesday, Melbournians woke up to
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  Speaker 2: a ghastly site pro Hamask graffiti scrawled across buildings and
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  Speaker 2: billboards around the city. It said, glory to harmas and
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  Speaker 2: do it again, referring to the October seven attacks where
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  Speaker 2: twelve hundred Israelis were killed and two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: civilians and soldiers were taken hostage. Israel's Deputy Foreign Affairs
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  Speaker 2: Minister Sharon Haskell condemned the graffiti attack in a post
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  Speaker 2: on social media, telling state and federal governments to get
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  Speaker 2: your country in order and stop the due hate. The
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  Speaker 2: PM said the Australian Federal Police would assist Victorian police
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  Speaker 2: in tracking down the vandals, while new AFP Commissioner Chrissy
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  Speaker 2: Barrett revealed new national security investigation teams were being set
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  Speaker 2: up nationwide to tackle a surge in hate crimes. Is
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  Speaker 2: the government doing enough to tackle this problem?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think? Cam and I'm sure Jewish Australians that
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  Speaker 1: it gets it.
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  Speaker 4: All of these incidents that we're seeing, Christen, I think
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  Speaker 4: it is going to fuel a stronger debate as to
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  Speaker 4: a whether the government, federal and the state level are
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  Speaker 4: really doing enough, and be whether you really need to
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  Speaker 4: empower law enforcement, the police forces, especially in Victoria and
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  Speaker 4: New South Wales and the Australian Federal Police as well,
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  Speaker 4: to be able to do more, to be able to
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  Speaker 4: take a more aggressive stance here. A lot of these
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  Speaker 4: arseness have actually got away with it. We're seeing far
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  Speaker 4: too few prosecutions of these crimes, and I guess you
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  Speaker 4: can argue if they were a prosecuted and be the
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  Speaker 4: penalty was much greater, then there'd be a far greater
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  Speaker 4: deterrence than you've scene. I think the events of the
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  Speaker 4: last forty eight hours or so we'll really spur this
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  Speaker 4: debate further.
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  Speaker 2: Just lastly, Cam to come back to the reason for
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  Speaker 2: our conversation today. Are you optimistic this conflict will come
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  Speaker 2: to an end through the negotiations that are playing out
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  Speaker 2: in Egypt right now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm cautiously optimistic that we might actually get a deal
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  Speaker 4: which gets the hostages out in exchange for the release
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  Speaker 4: of a lot of Palestini and the prisoners. I think
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  Speaker 4: the more difficult aspect will be to get agreement on
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  Speaker 4: exactly what the interim government in Gaza would be. Will
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  Speaker 4: Hamas actually step down as they've promised, and more importantly,
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  Speaker 4: would they actually disarmed, which is what the Americans and
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  Speaker 4: the Israelis have called for. They are much bigger steps
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  Speaker 4: and that will come in a second phase. So I
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  Speaker 4: think the first phase is definitely possible. The second phase
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  Speaker 4: is far more challenging. But gee, this good term and
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  Speaker 4: of dime. It wouldn't surprise me if Hamas threw in
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  Speaker 4: a few new requests, new demands which are totally untenable.
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  Speaker 4: That's the sort of group that they are. We'll just
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  Speaker 4: have to see. But the next forty eight hours are
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  Speaker 4: critical to see whether the first and most important part
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  Speaker 4: of the deal, the release of the hostages, can be
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  Speaker 4: actually achieved.
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  Speaker 2: Cameron Stewart is The Australian's chief international correspondent. You can
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  Speaker 2: read all his reporting and analysis anytime at the Australian
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