Elon Musk's personal credibility is at an all-time low due to his repeated expressions of anti-Semitism. The last one, once the war in Gaza started, 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, Benjamin Netanyahu, welcomed him to his country yesterday with open arms and forgave him the hateful insults in exchange for his technology.
Quid pro quo, you say. It's all a matter of needs. It seems clear that the intersection of interests led to this embrace. It is estimated that Musk has already lost 75 million dollars, and it is only the beginning, with the boycott of the big companies to advertise on the social network X, which was called Twitter when he bought it, after his latest anti-Semitic rampage.
As with the White House, for whom Musk is detestable in many ways, Israel depends on the technological deployment that the richest man in the world treasures to be able to fight Hamas and its militants lurking among the Palestinian population of Gaza.
Musk's trip served to reach an agreement with Netanyahu's Executive, so that Israel can use Starlink satellites, the communication system that the entrepreneur also facilitated in Ukraine, although not he hesitated to cut the signal to prevent the attack on the Russian fleet in the Black Sea and not to harm his friend Putin.
Netanyahu took him on a tour of the areas targeted by the terrorists on October 7 to certify the "attack on humanity" that took place that day, an aggression that led to massive punishment against the Palestinians in the strip. "Actions speak louder than words," Musk wrote to X. He was also shown videos of the militants' actions, which left him "stunned," he insisted. Then came the deal for Starlink.
It's his way of getting himself forgiven for the November 15 message in which he endorsed the replacement theory spread by white supremacists. The US Government condemned "the disgusting 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 X's rival.
But the Biden Executive cannot break with Musk. The Pentagon needs Starlink; NASA, Space X, the promotion of the electric car depends on Tesla's charging network, and communication with citizens still requires X. So, like Netanyahu, you have to swallow it and look the other way.
