The pain and anger have all but gone, but like many of you I still feel the deep sadness caused by the massacre of 15 innocent people at Bondi on December 14.
On that day our family met at Cronulla RSL for a Christmas lunch, and we left feeling we were so lucky to have emigrated to the best country in the world.
The next morning, like most fair minded Australians, we felt our world had been turned upside down.
During a video call with my brother, I saw a side of him that I have never seen before.
His anger about Bondi was palpable, and what he told me should happen to anyone found guilty cannot be repeated.
But I am sure you can imagine what sort of punishment he had in mind at that moment, a little over 12 hours after those 15 people, including a 10 year old girl called Matilda were gunned down in cold blood.
At Bondi.
The place where just about every Sydneysider has visited at least once.
My brother and I shared beautiful memories as two young Greek boys visiting Bondi to try our hand at surfing or just lie on the grass and enjoy some fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.
Those memories have now been obliterated, and the same would apply to millions of our fellow citizens from Sydney and across the country.
And why?
Well, because of a conflict in the Middle East, almost 20,000 km away.
It doesn’t matter how they try to spin it, those poor Jewish people celebrating their faith as part of the first day of Chanukah had nothing to do with Gaza and other parts of the Middle East.
It was bad enough our city streets have been clogged up by dubious protest marches for more than two years, leading up to the atrocity on December 14.
But make no mistake about it, what happened at Bondi was an attack on all Aussies, me, you, every single one of us.
That’s why the Prime Minister’s response was so disappointing – or to use the Aussie vernacular, it was as weak as piss.
This was Anthony Albanese’s Ich bin ein Berliner moment and for whatever reason he failed to grasp it.
US president John F Kennedy (JFK) uttered the words Ich bin ein Berliner in 1963 when he visited Berlin to see for himself the wall the communists had built to divide the city into two.
Saying “I am a Berliner’’ in German was JFK’s way of showing genuine empathy with the people of Berlin.
Albanese’s first words on learning of the terrorist attack should have been: “I am a Jew today. We are all Jews today’’.
In that moment he was the father of the nation, and he needed to make us feel a little better, to reassure us he would do everything in his power to keep all of us safe.
That was it, he had one job, and I am sorry to say he failed.
With Christmas around the corner, all we can do now is pray to God that Bondi never happens again.