Hey everyone, Monty Gonzalez here in studio, and I have with me Joe Hawkins. Welcome, Joe.

Hey, thank you, Mondo. Thanks for having me. And we wanted to talk today really about this horrible

news that has come out of Australia, really just since yesterday and give some background to it

and really just kind of put a prophetic, really understanding of really all these events that have been happening over

the past few years. There's no doubt that when you look at some of the statistics going on

with anti-Semitism, you know, Joe, just kind of up front, what's going on, I mean, in general?

Well, we certainly see the ancient hatred for the Jewish people playing out in real time on our TV screens.

And it's absolutely a sad thing to see.

We just recently saw the Manchester Synagogue attack that was back in October.

And now we have this attack over in Australia at bondi beach that

saw 15 or 16 people lose their lives during this Jewish ceremony it's absolutely a sad thing to

see but it's something that we should certainly expect in these times and like I said this

ancient hatred of the Jewish people's playing out right on real

right in real time on our screens. Yeah, I mean, the news of course is still coming out, but

you know, they have a pretty good understanding of you have a father's son team, if you want

to say that, going and bringing out their weapons.

It's interesting, too, because you have all these people getting together for a Hanukkah celebration, an annual thing.

And so there's no doubt this was a well-known area for this annual celebration.

So they certainly had this planned.

And ultimately, they were on a bridge and they're shooting into the crowd

at the beach people are fleeing and then ultimately the some police officers were

hurt as well who arrived on the scene relatively quick quickly it was exactly quite

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