There are moments when plain language is not just helpful—it’s necessary. Bondi Beach is one of those moments.

In the aftermath of the shooting, two very different styles of reporting emerged. One, largely reflected in American and Australian coverage, carefully assembled facts while cushioning the ideological core. The other—most notably in European reporting—put the ideology front and center, quoting those closest to the attackers and letting the public see, unfiltered, what radicalization actually looks like in real life.\

The contrast matters.

Fox News, quoting Australian authorities, acknowledged radicalization and potential Iranian-linked influence. But the piece was written with a studied restraint, a kind of institutional throat-clearing that never quite lands the plane. Readers are told what happened, but only cautiously why. The story tiptoes around the most uncomfortable truth: this attack was animated by a religious worldview that teaches hatred of Jews as virtue.

By contrast, the UK’s Telegraph reported something far more revealing—and far more damning. It quoted the dead terrorist’s wife, who described her son, one of the shooters, as a........

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