Benjamin Netanyahu urged Elon Musk to find harmony between protecting free speech and fighting intolerable speech
Elon Musk was invited by Israel on Monday as the nation said it struck a basic agreement to send SpaceX's Starlink correspondence framework to the Gaza Strip, where the tech business visionary's appearance coincided with a ceasefire with Hamas.
Musk suggested giving Gaza a website last month, saying Starlink could help the region connect with "universally perceived aid associations," according to Reuters. Still, Karhi said, "Hamas will engage [Starlink] in a fear-mongering exercise" and dismissed the idea.
Elon Musk to give Starlink to Gazans after chats with Netanyahu
Tech super-rich Elon Musk met with Israeli head of state Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the kibbutz targeted by Palestinian gunmen during the October 7 attack and expressed support for Israel's conflict against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The visit comes at a time of debate for Musk, who has recently made headlines by calling an anti-Semitic online entertainment post an enemy — one of promoting the paranoid idea that white individuals in the West are being "squeezed out" through a movement from the Global South with the assistance of moderates Jews - "real truth".
As for the trip, Musk's office has yet to respond. Musk and Israeli President Isaac Herzog are scheduled to meet in the early evening. Family members of prisoners captured by Hamas in Gaza will go with them and also discuss "the need to take action to combat the growing discrimination against Jews on the web," Herzog's office said.
According to Netanyahu's office, Musk plans to meet with Supreme Leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to discuss the security implications of artificial intelligence and have some live internet banter.
After quite a long uproar over discrimination against Jews on X, formerly Twitter, Netanyahu supported Musk at their latest rally in California on September 18 to find harmony between shielding free discourse and fighting against discourse that cannot stand.
Amid the death of Hamas and the seizure in southern Israel last month, Musk suggested using Starlink to help correspondence lines in the Gaza Strip, which was struggling with a blackout that hit the Gaza Strip with "globally perceived aid associations."
At the time, Israeli Correspondence's Shlomo Karhi protested, saying "Hamas will use it (Starlink) to practice fear mongering".
In any case, in a further step, Karhi said on Monday that Israel and Musk had agreed on a basic level that "Starlink satellite units must be processed in Israel with the approval of the Israel Correspondence Service, including the Gaza Strip."
In X's post to Musk, Karhi said he believed the visit to Israel "will act as a springboard for future engagements, as well as enhance your relationship with the Jewish public and the values we share with the world."
Musk said he was against discrimination against Jews and against all "contempt and anti-progress" - reminded X.
In general, discrimination against Jews and Islamophobia have spread even in the midst of the seven-week-old conflict in Gaza. A shaky truce has been reached between Israel and Hamas that frees Palestinians detained by Israel for security-related offenses and frees several prisoners in Gaza.
On November 15, Musk agreed with a post on X that dishonestly warranted Jewish individuals fueled contempt against white individuals, saying that a client who invoked the paranoid notion of "incomparable substitution" was speaking "the real truth."
The White House condemned what it called "a vile advance of prejudice and bigoted contempt" that "runs counter to our fundamental beliefs as Americans."
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