Good evening. It's Tuesday, December 16th.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show.

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Tonight, there was a truly horrific massacre that took place in Sydney, Australia, in which two people apparently, according to the government, connected with or at least strongly inspired by the terror group, ISIS, remember them, a tactic gathering at a park that is well known in Sydney for being a gathering of Jewish people, especially for Hanukkah season,

evidently chose to target it for that reason, gunned down 15 people who died a couple of dozen

injured and what was just a random spray of bullet, obviously aimed at killing a bunch of innocent

people, the fact that both of the shooters were, according to the government again, not just inspired by Isseless, but also Muslim, has set off a very predictable wave of all sorts of exploitation, and that's really all you can call it, of the victims of this very tragic shooting, whose bodies were still on the ground when all

kinds of supporters of the Israeli government began sweeping all over Western media and the

American media to, A, blame people and put the blood that was spilled in Sydney at the doorstep

and on the hands of people who have been

criticizing Israel over the last two years, as though criticizing Israel spawns anti-Semitism,

which in turn spawns attacks of this kind, makes no sense for all sorts of reasons.

If, in fact, the shooters were, as the government claims, inspired by ISIS,

ISIS notoriously cares almost nothing for the Palestinians or the Israeli conflict of Palestinians.

In fact, ISIS had been notably uninterested in attacking Israel.

Obviously, the animosity of ISIS goes back toward Jews, toward people in the West,

long before October 7th.

But that's what exploitation means.

You take an event that produces a lot of emotions, like seeing dozens of people gunned

down while peacefully observing their holiday, and you attempt to exploit it into some

preexisting political agenda,

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