PRESS REVIEW – Monday, December 15: Australian and Israeli papers discuss the "bloodshed" of the Bondi Beach terror attack. Next, French papers write about the "agricultural revolt" of farmers. Finally: a sausage-dog walk in London's Hyde Park sparks the festive spirit.

The Australian papers are reacting to the Bondi Beach terror attack, in which 15 people were killed on Sunday. "Massacre of Jews", reads the headline of The Australian. An opinion piece in the paper says that "Australia is no longer safe for Jews". The conservative Daily Telegraph rails against the "bastards" responsible for the massacre: on the front page, we see Naveed Akram, one of the two gunmen, whose father was shot dead by police. "Bondi Terror", writes The Sydney Morning Herald, saying people woke to the "bloodshed of the massacre". In an opinion piece, a bystander who was 100 metres away describes the chaos and hearing the gunshots, saying it felt "surreal" and that "it has changed Sydney forever".

There are also many opinion pieces in the Israeli press. The right-wing Jerusalem Post writes that if there is a Nobel Prize for saving Jews, "Ahmed al Ahmed just won it" – that's the bystander who disarmed one of the shooters. The paper says that heroism does not belong to a particular people or faith, noting that Ahmed is not Jewish. The paper writes that there is "something profoundly Hanukkah about that moment". The left-wing paper Haaretz says that Israel shouldn't exploit the pain following the massacre, adding that the country's "choice of words, especially today, matters". Exploiting the pain would only achieve the goal of the shooters: to instil fear in the Jewish community worldwide.

The Guardian has an analysis of Australia's "gold standard" gun control. For almost three decades, the country has had some of the strictest gun laws in the world. The country felt relatively safe from gun violence, says the paper, but the massacre "will shake this confidence". One of the shooters was a registered gun owner and had six legal firearms. 

Here in France, farmers have been protesting against the slaughter of cows infected with what's known as lumpy skin disease. French paper La Croix calls it "The return of the agricultural revolt". French Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard will travel to southwestern France on Monday to attend the start of the vaccination campaign. "Contagious peasant anger", reads the front page of French Communist paper L'Humanité. The paper says that the memory of the 2024 farmers' protests is still fresh, and that structural problems persist. Throughout the weekend, we saw images of paralysed highways, exhausted farmers and clashes with the police, bringing back vivid memories of the 2024 "farmer revolt". 

Finally, London welcomes the festive spirit with a Christmas-special sausage dog parade in Hyde Park, as reported in The Guardian.

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