The city is about to become combustible

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NEW YORK — Any doubt that calls to “globalize the intifada” have fallen on deaf ears were dispelled over the weekend by the shooting in Sydney that has left 16 Jews dead and dozens injured at a beachside Hanukkah party in the heart of the city. The pair of gunmen, a father and son of Pakistani origin, were only prevented from causing further carnage by Sydney police — along with a brave bystander who literally body-slammed a shooter into submission.

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The attack, which sent hundreds of sun-seekers scurrying for safety, is the literal definition of Islamic terror. It is not the first assault on either Jews or the West to emerge from this now global ideology — nor is it likely to be the last. That it came on the first night of Hanukkah — a celebration of Jewish faith and heroism — only reinforces the ungodlyness of a belief-system that knows no bounds nor borders.

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