Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a message of support Thursday for Elon Musk after the world’s richest man was accused of making a Nazi salute.

Musk “is being falsely smeared,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the social media platform owned by Musk. “Elon is a great friend of Israel. He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre… [and] has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”

Musk later thanked Netanyahu.

    • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      Oligarchs are all in the same big mentally-ill sociopath club. They know they’re the devil and they revel in being evil. They only care about wealth and power, and their only common goal is keeping the proles fighting each other, instead of dragging them into the street and making them pay for their crimes; for the irrevocable damage they’ve done to all of us, and our societies.

      I’m not convinced most of them actually believe any of the horseshit they spout. Their words are just a means to achieving their goals.

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        Oh I know they’re all amoral hypocrites. I was more referring to the fact that they can spout such blatant hypocritical nonsense and the rest of the world just goes along with it.

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    This is essentially: “As a black man, those white hooded robes and burning cross definitely aren’t racist imagery!”

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    Calls everything antisemitism as a cudgel to defend themselves and their genocide

    *sees a literal Nazi

    Nah, not him, he’s cool

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    Oh wow, fascist 1 defends fascist 2 and says that they’re not fascists… who woulda thunk it?

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    That’s telling us pretty much all we needed to know about the whole Gaza situation, if anyone still had doubts about it. Far right extremists, Nazis, fascists, whatever you want to call them.

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      Serious question, if Netanyahu is a nazi why isn’t his government fascist? Literally 10% of the population of Israel was protesting him in 7/2023 demanding his removal and the Israeli state just let the protestors continue living. If Bibi is a nazi why didn’t his government pursue that population?

      Netanyahu is a corrupt piece of shit. Him taking bribes from Musk is more likely than Netanyahu being a nazi.

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        His government is fascist.

        The definition of ‘fascist’ is somewhat more complex than ‘a person who murders 10% of his county’s population due to political differences’.

        Do you think there weren’t people against the Nazis in 1930s Germany? The bulk of them weren’t killed either, so I guess by your logic Hitler also wasn’t a fascist or a Nazi?

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          No, it isn’t. You can be a genocidal apartheid nation and not be fascist. The USA was one for decades before fascism was conceived.

          Hitler was a fascist because he espoused a fascist ideology. Netanyahu does not do this. Netanyahu is promoting genocide and apartheid but both of those are not at all unique to fascism. France was doing things like this back when they were a monarchal empire.

          Please learn what fascism is so you know how to properly identify what it is. The current US administration is giving a clear example of it.

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        Fascists have an order of operations, they don’t just round up all their enemies at the same time. First they attack their greatest opposition, which in Israel’s case is the Palestinian resistance.

        If they ever managed to crush the resistance they’d start going after the other enemies of the state.

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    Just FYI: Netanyahu’s parents emigrated to Israel in the 1920s because they were as fervently Zionist as you can get. They even changed their name from something Polish to Netanyahu since that’s a blatantly Semitic name.

    In short- not only did he and his family not suffer from the Holocaust, they benefited from it because it furthered their own goals.

    So this should not be in any way surprising even if the genocide of Palestinians had not started under his watch.