The Italian journalist Giulio Meotti describes here some of those who loved life and were murdered at Bondi Beach by those whose ghastly boast is “we love death as you love life”: “We are not all brothers,” by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, December 19, 2025:
Dan Elkayam was a young French engineer from Le Bourget, in Seine-Saint-Denis, today almost devoid of Jews. On the first night of Hanukkah, like many young Jews far from home, he went to forge a bond with his people during the lighting of the Hanukkah menorah. As bullets began to fly, Dan rushed to shield a little girl with his own body and died under the terrorists’ gunfire.
Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman was killed while protecting his wife Larisa. Both Alex and Larisa survived the Holocaust as children: Alex had to endure “terrible conditions” in Siberia. Years of malnutrition and cramped conditions left Kleytman partially disabled….
Think of Alex Kleytman’s existence, one misery after another: as a child, managing to survive — was he in a death camp? — the Nazi Holocaust. And after the war, as a young man, he ended up in Siberia, the victim of Stalin’s madness, enduring “terrible conditions.” We can only imagine, based on what we glean from Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago, what life in the frozen waste of northern Siberia must have been like. Was Kleytman in the camps at Magadan, or Kolyma, or just in an ordinary Siberian town whose inhabitants routinely died from the cold, or from malnourishment? He finally ended up in Australia, where at last, for the first time in his life, he was able to live without constant misery and fear, and then he goes to Bondi Beach, where in one last good deed he covers his wife’s body with his own, so that he will die instead of her.
The slogan “They love life and we love death” emerges as a necromantic invocation echoing the depths of a nihilism disguised as faith. Attributed variously to figures such as Bin Laden or Nasrallah, this slogan is not mere belligerent rhetoric but an ontological manifesto. It is a declaration of war not only against the West or Israel, but against the very essence of human existence.
This slogan stands in stark contrast to the biographies of the Jewish victims of the Bondi Beach attack, who know that, in this world, mere survival is already an unforgivable sin for those who dream of their disappearance.
Not all men are brothers. Not all foreigners are guests: many are invaders who see the West as dar al-harb, a land of war.
With each of the Jewish victims and their families I have learned to break and share bread as with a neighbor who is my equal. Neighbors in the deepest sense: they share our fundamental values, bearers of that civilization that produced Bach, the cathedrals, Einstein and democracy as well as ethics.
With their murderers and the millions of accomplices among us I want no contact. One does not break bread with those who break lives. I do not want them here. The former do not want to integrate, but to dominate and destroy. The latter do not seek shared bread, but howl at the blood that has been spilled.
“You Infidels love life as we Muslims love death.” How often have we heard that said? Well, what if we compromise? How about a revised version in which Infidels state that “we love your deaths as you love ours”? There. Isn’t that better?
Puddleglum says
It is.
When the enemy is willing to die for their core beliefs- beliefs that remain ever at odds with decency and civilization- they ought to feel accommodated.
In spite of the classic W babble, the terrorists *don’t* win. Because they’re dead.
Taffy says
The Aussie police averted a second Bondi Beach tragedy by arresting a carload of armed Muslims heading to Bondi Beach. These Muslims intended to shoot up those at the beach who were paying their respects to the murder victims.
Tucker Carlson be damned! Deport every last Muzzie out of Australia, Europe, Canada and the US. Bulldoze their mosques, and sell the columns and beams for scrap. I hear that Syria needs more Muslims.
But you say, there’re some good Muslims. Yes there are, but you are dealing with the poisoned jellybean problem: If I gave you a jar of jellybeans and told you that 2% of the contents was poisoned, would you dare to consume any? If so, above what poisoned percent would you not eat from the jar?
Troybeam says
Your analogy about the jelly beans is a good one, so many will fail to understand it where Islam is concerned.
Hank says
The definition of a good Muslim is one that adheres and follows the Quran in lifestyle and action. A bad Muslim is one who doesn’t. We all know what is written in the Quran: kill all the infidels, conquer the infidels, women are half a brain, make slaves of them, Mutta, Taqiya, Jizya, strike their necks, marry a six year old child, breast suckling for adults, Mohammed took his sons wife, and so on.
Ergo, there aren’t any “good” Muslims. You have been meeting bad Muslims who at any moment transition to a “good” Muslims.
OLD GUY says
You are dead on correct. There is no such thing as a moderate islamic followers either. These islamic followers either participate in the Jihad or support it with money or remain totally silent about the violence and killings in Islam’s name.
Billy says
Access to a promised Paradise is why Muslims love death. Allah’s Muslims desire to make Islam supreme using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Sahih Bukhari 3126 says, “… the Prophet said, He who fights so that Allah’s Word(ie. Islam) should be superior, fights for Allah’s Cause.” Allah in Qur’an 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah[ie. Allah’s Cause to make Islam Supreme], so they kill and are killed…”.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Alex Kleytman’s story above is heartbreaking. He finally found what might have been an eternally peaceful place, except that the stupid Aussies needed to undo the great policies of John Howard
Walter Sieruk says
Tragic, even that word might be too mild to describe those horrendously evil actions as this. What those Muslim terrorists of Hamas did on December 14th 2025 at that Hanukkah was horrendously evil. Those Muslim terrorists have proven that they are nothing but despicable cowards of the most horrific sort. For the many cruel unconscionable malicious and murderous intentional evils of Hamas had no limits.
With this thesis statement , two important points should be made clear .
First ,those Muslims terrorists who engaged in that death inflecting jihad massacre at that Hanukkah festival were obeying the command of Islam’ “holy book” the Qur’ an ,as it instructs in Surah 47:4 , which instructs “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike of their heads until you made great slaughter among them…”
The use of modern weapons is a much more effective method of making a “great slaughter among them than a sword can.
Second , all if not most Muslims do claim that they respect the Bible. Well, if that that claim not just disingenuous dishonest then all the Muslims who celebrated that Muslim terrorists massacre of all those Jewish people at a Hanukkah Festival in Sydney Australia. This is more than malice, it’s Islamic malice.
So applying the Bible in regard to those Muslims celebrated the harm that came upon the people that festival, the Bible in Proverbs 17:5 reveals that “He who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
Walter Sieruk says
That evil book, the Qur ‘an is able make a wicked influence in those who are indoctrinated in its teaching and then creates evil men. As observed in the horrendous atrocities committed by the jihadists mass murder of all those Jews at a Hanukkah festival in Sydney’ Australia
For that religious book of Islam, the Qur ‘an , which is the foundation of both Islam and its Hamas instructs in the violence and killing of what it terms “disbelievers” As found in ,for example, Surah 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 and also teaches that Jews are “Apes and swine” that in human form. As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Furthermore, the Qur ‘an teaches that Jews are really of “apes and swine. “In human form As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
This that reason the Qu ‘ran needs to and should be exposed for that hoax that it actually is.
That has already been done, for in the book THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey on pages 145 through 157 in which he wrote a section on the Qu‘ran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Qu’ran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Qu ‘ran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”
Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Qur ‘an, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran.
In addition, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Therefore, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Eethi Caner has shown that the Qu ‘ran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”
In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
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Controse says
None Bondi Beach specific comment: We need to encourage the press to quit reporting on just half of the consequences of mass terror attacks. The half that is missing is the life altering wounds of the wounded. At least a link to the details should always accompany statement of the number killed vs the number wounded. Those killed are tragically dead. Those wounded include many who have had what remains of their life tragically altered. The readers should know the details.