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Tech mogul Elon Musk arrived in Israel on Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Presiden Isaac Herzog, other officials and victims of the October 7 Hamas atrocities as well as the families of hostages.
The billionaire arrived less than two weeks after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on his X platform, which led to major companies pulling advertisements from the site.
Musk started his visit by touring a kibbutz in southern Israel that was among the worst affected during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, together with Netanyahu.
During the tour of Kfar Aza, Musk was shown the horrors of the Hamas attack, which saw terrorists storm the community and 20 or so others, butchering and burning entire families and kidnapping scores of civilians to Gaza.
Musk said the experience was “jarring” and that he was struck by what appeared to be “joy” on the part of the terrorists in the video. Following the tour, Netanyahu and Musk did a live broadcast on the billionaire’s social media site X, formerly Twitter.
“The rebuttal is often made that well, you know, Israel has killed civilians also in Gaza,” Musk said. “But there’s an important difference here, which is that Israel tries to avoid killing civilians, doing everything it can to avoid killing civilians. And, you know, there’s not sort of joy expressed.”
Musk also said that “there’s no choice” but for Israel to destroy Hamas, but that Israel then needs to “help those that remain,” likening a future postwar scenario to the post-World War II US occupation of Germany and Japan.
“If you want security, peace and a better life for Gazans, then you need to destroy Hamas. You first have to get rid of the poisonous regime as was done in Germany and Japan,” said Netanyahu, to which Musk responded: “There’s no choice.”
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Obviously, Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas if it is ever to be able to protect itself from Palestinians terrorism, but if the UN, EU, Red Cross and others would hold the Palestinians accountable for allowing Hamas to use their children and themselves as human shields, there would be far fewer civilian casualties in Gaza.
The billionaire arrived less than two weeks after he endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory on his X platform, which led to major companies pulling advertisements from the site.
Musk started his visit by touring a kibbutz in southern Israel that was among the worst affected during Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, together with Netanyahu.
During the tour of Kfar Aza, Musk was shown the horrors of the Hamas attack, which saw terrorists storm the community and 20 or so others, butchering and burning entire families and kidnapping scores of civilians to Gaza.
Musk said the experience was “jarring” and that he was struck by what appeared to be “joy” on the part of the terrorists in the video. Following the tour, Netanyahu and Musk did a live broadcast on the billionaire’s social media site X, formerly Twitter.
“The rebuttal is often made that well, you know, Israel has killed civilians also in Gaza,” Musk said. “But there’s an important difference here, which is that Israel tries to avoid killing civilians, doing everything it can to avoid killing civilians. And, you know, there’s not sort of joy expressed.”
Musk also said that “there’s no choice” but for Israel to destroy Hamas, but that Israel then needs to “help those that remain,” likening a future postwar scenario to the post-World War II US occupation of Germany and Japan.
“If you want security, peace and a better life for Gazans, then you need to destroy Hamas. You first have to get rid of the poisonous regime as was done in Germany and Japan,” said Netanyahu, to which Musk responded: “There’s no choice.”
Musk tours Gaza border kibbutz with PM, says ‘no choice’ but for Israel to destroy Hamas
Billionaire shown evidence of Oct. 7 atrocities, including screening of 43-minute Hamas massacre footage; Herzog urges tech mogul to clamp down on antisemitic hate speech on X
www.timesofisrael.com
Obviously, Israel has no choice but to destroy Hamas if it is ever to be able to protect itself from Palestinians terrorism, but if the UN, EU, Red Cross and others would hold the Palestinians accountable for allowing Hamas to use their children and themselves as human shields, there would be far fewer civilian casualties in Gaza.
