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Canberra Times
19 hours ago
- Canberra Times
Israel to send delegation to Qatar for Gaza talks
"The attack - which preliminary information indicates was carried out by two assailants who threw two grenades at the Americans - occurred at the conclusion of an otherwise successful distribution in which thousands of Gazans safely received food," the GHF said.
The Age
a day ago
- The Age
Thugs who perform violence over distant atrocities have no place here
A succession of arrivals from the Balkans, Asia, Africa, South and Central America and elsewhere have in the main managed to go about building worthy lives in increasingly multicultural Australia without taking revenge in the streets for old hostilities and often terrible injustices, too. But today, real thugs, observing no such limits and wearing the false cloak of legitimate protest, are being hunted by police after trying to set fire to a Melbourne synagogue where parents and children were gathered, and a real mob was filmed invading a restaurant and terrorising patrons. The targets of Friday night's attacks were obviously chosen for the singular reason that they were presumed to be Jewish, though many in the restaurant, it happens, were not. The excuse? The war in the Middle East, of course, where the Israeli government is taking bloody retribution on Gazans for the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelis by Hamas terrorists who still hold Israeli hostages. Every night, our TV screens are saturated in images of unbearable suffering in Gaza and accusations of atrocities by the Israeli military acting on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu's administration. You'd need a heart of ice not to be shocked or angered. But to seek violent revenge and to extend the blame for whatever is occurring on the other side of the world to Jewish citizens of Australia in Melbourne, most of whom live in this city because they or their descendants fled Europe after World War II and the Holocaust, is as imbecilic as it is inexcusable. To attack a Melbourne synagogue or the patrons of a restaurant clearly achieves nothing beyond fuelling dread and stirring traumatic memories of past terror among innocent citizens and their communities, while stripping from the perpetrators' cause whatever public sympathy may have existed.
West Australian
2 days ago
- West Australian
Anti-tourism protest in Mexico City turns violent
A protest against mass tourism that began peacefully in Mexico City neighbourhoods popular with tourists turned violent when a small number of people began smashing storefronts and harassing foreigners. Masked protesters smashed through the windows and looted high-end businesses on Friday in the touristic areas of Condesa and Roma, and screamed at tourists in the area. Graffiti on glass shattered glass being smashed through with rocks read: "Get out of Mexico". Protesters held signs reading "gringos, stop stealing our home" and demanding local legislation to better regulate tourism levels and stricter housing laws. Marchers then continued on to protest outside the US Embassy and chanted inside the city's metro system. Police reinforcements gathered outside the embassy building as police sirens rung out in the city centre on Friday evening. It marked a violent end to a more peaceful march throughout the day calling out against masses of mostly American tourists who have flooded into Mexico's capital in recent years. Tension had been mounting in the city since US "digital nomads" flocked to Mexico City in 2020, many to escape coronavirus lockdowns in the US or to take advantage of cheaper rent prices in the Latin American city. Since then, rents have soared and locals have increasingly gotten pushed out of their neighbourhoods, particularly areas like Condesa and Roma, lush areas packed with coffee shops and restaurants. Michelle Castro, a 19-year-old college student, was among the flocks of people protesting. She said that she's from the city's working class city centre, and that she's watched slowly as apartment buildings have been turned into housing for tourists. "Mexico City is going through a transformation," she said. "There are a lot of foreigners, namely Americans, coming to live here. Many say it's xenophobia, but it's not. It's just that so many foreigners come here, rents are skyrocketing because of Airbnb. Rents are so high that some people can't even pay anymore." The Mexico City protest follows others in European cities like Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and Rome against mass tourism.
