Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that a heroic Jewish bystander saved Jewish lives during the Bondi Beach massacre by tackling one of the gunmen. In fact, the man who made the heroic intervention is a Muslim of Levantine descent who was shot twice in the process.
Ahmed El Ahmed, from Idlib in Syria according to a relative, went up unarmed against one of the attackers, wrested his gun away and turned it on the terrorist, forcing him to flee, as footage shown by Al Jazeera demonstrates…
Mission was accomplished by disarming him. Its not like he had a knife of was a kung fu master. He wasn’t going to continue on a mass punching. If he was running; even better.
Shooting the other shooter might’ve been smart, but if you aren’t kind of an asshole who’s lived a life of violence; that could, yes, be really hard to execute or conceptualize in the moment.