Elon Musk’s personal credibility is at a minimum due to his repeated expressions of anti-Semitism. The last one, once the Gaza war began, consisted of praising and amplifying the conspiratorial idea that Jews are leading the replacement of whites by immigrants of other ethnicities.
However, the Prime Minister of Israel, Beniamín Netanyahu, welcomed him into his country this Monday with open arms, forgiving him for his hateful insults in exchange for his technology.
Quid pro quo, as they say. It’s all a question of needs. It seems clear that the intersection of interests led to that embrace. It is estimated that Musk has already lost 75 million dollars, and it is only the beginning, with the boycott of large companies to advertise on social network X, which was called Twitter when he bought it, after his latest anti-Semitic outburst. .
As with the White House, for whom Musk is detestable in many aspects, Israel depends on the technological deployment that the richest man in the world possesses to combat Hamas and its militants ambushed among the Palestinian population of Gaza.
Musk’s trip served to reach an agreement with the Jerusalem executive, so that Israel can use the Starlink satellites, the communication system that the businessman also provided to Ukraine, although he did not hesitate to cut the signal to prevent the attack on the Russian fleet in the Black Sea and not harm his friend Putin.
Netanyahu took him on a tour of the terrorists’ target areas on October 7 to certify “the attack against humanity” that occurred that day, an attack that led to massive punishment against the Palestinians in the strip.
“Actions speak louder than words,” Musk wrote in X. They also showed him videos of the militants’ action, which left him “stunned,” he insisted. Then came the deal for Starlink.
It is his way of making himself forgive the message of November 15 in which he endorsed the replacement theory spread by white supremacists. The US Government condemned “the abhorrent promotion of anti-Semitic and racist hatred.” Along with the statement, the complaint consisted of opening a White House account on Threads, a network owned by Meta and rival of X.
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