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'Netanyahu responds to Nazi salute uproar: 'Musk is being falsely
smeared''
'Just days after American tycoon Elon Musk caused a stir when he made a
gesture reminiscent of a Nazi salute, the prime minister stood by him.
'Elon is a great friend of Israel,' Netanyahu wrote on the X platform,
owned by the billionaire who is close to President Trump'
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'Three days after Elon Musk made a gesture that was reminiscent of a
Nazi salute and caused a stir, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is
addressing it for the first time, and expressing support for Elon Musk .
"Elon Musk is being falsely smeared," Netanyahu wrote in a tweet on the
X platform, owned by Musk, who is close to U.S. President Donald Trump
and is considered one of his senior advisers. About 20 minutes later,
Musk retweeted Netanyahu's comment and added "Thank you."
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Elon Musck speaks during President Donald Trump's inauguration (Photo:
Mike Segar/Reuters)
The prime minister wrote that "Elon is a great friend of Israel. He
visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists
committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the
Holocaust. He 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. I thank him for this."
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After the storm around his hand gesture, Musk hit back against his
attackers: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The “everyone is
Hitler” attack is sooo tired."
After Trump's inauguration, Musk rose to speak, and was filmed making a
gesture reminiscent of the Nazi raised hand salute at the end of his
remarks. Many were shocked by the disturbing "gesture" and accused Musk
of fascism and antisemitism, with some even claiming that "now the real
Musk is starting to emerge."
On the other hand, Musk's supporters, now joined by Netanyahu, offered a
host of arguments in his defense, ranging from "he actually intended to
do the Roman handshake" to "he is diagnosed with Asperger's and was
unable to control his emotions." Others suggested that this was simply
an innocent gesture stemming from excitement and related to the last
sentence that Musk said in his speech: "My heart goes out to you."'