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Benjamin Netanyahu comes to defense of Elon Musk: ‘falsely smeared’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended Elon Musk after media outlets described a gesture that the Tesla CEO made at President Donald Trump’s inauguration rally on Monday as a Nazi salute.
Netanyahu took to X on Thursday to post that Musk is «being falsely smeared.»
«Elon is a great friend of Israel,» the prime minister said. «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.»
Netanyahu went on to thank Musk for his support.
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Musk made the gesture in question while speaking to a crowd of MAGA faithful at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.
Elon Musk arrives to speak at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
«This is what victory feels like! And this was no ordinary victory, this was a fork in the road for human civilization… I just want to say thank you for making it happen, thank you. From my heart to yours,» an ebullient Musk said as he placed his hand over his own heart and reached out to the crowd.
PBS News Hour fired out a post on X that said the Tesla CEO «gave what appeared to be a fascist salute,» while the Jerusalem post wrote, «US billionaire Elon Musk appeared to make a Heil Hitler salute at the Washington DC Trump parade on Monday, following Trump’s inauguration.»
CNN host Erin Burnett played the clip of the gesture and called it an «odd salute.»
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Musk addressed the controversy Wednesday on X, which he owns, writing, «The radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi.»
On Thursday, Musk poked fun at the reports in another post on X.
«Don’t say Hess to Nazi accusations! Some people will Goebbels anything down! Stop Gőring your enemies! His pronouns would’ve been He/Himmler! Bet you did nazi that coming,» Musk wrote, adding a crying laughing emoji.
The Anti-Defamation League also defended Musk in a statement saying that the tech billionaire had made an «awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.»
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«In this moment, all sides should give each one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt and take a breath,» the statement said.
Fox News Digital’s David Spector contributed to this report.
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Senior Islamic State leader killed in Iraq, Trump says his ‘miserable life was terminated’
The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister announced on Friday.
Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or «Abu Khadija,» was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement.
The prime minister described al-Rifai as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the news on his social media platform Truth Social, saying al-Rifai’s «miserable life was terminated.»
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani described al-Rifai as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.» (AP)
«Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,» Trump wrote Friday night. «He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government.»
«PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!» the president added.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement that its forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and security forces, conducted an airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the «Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah,’ and one other ISIS operative.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacted by saying al-Rifai’s «miserable life was terminated.» (Getty Images)
«As the Emir of ISIS’ most senior decision-making body, Abu Khadijah maintained responsibility for operations, logistics, and planning conducted by ISIS globally, and directs a significant portion of finance for the group’s global organization,» CENTCOM said.
Islamic State/Iraq/Syria: A masked Islamic State soldier poses holding the ISIL banner somewhere in the deserts of Iraq or Syria. ISIL publicity image, 2015. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
After the strike, U.S. and Iraqi forces moved to the location of the strike and found both dead ISIS targets who were each wearing unexploded «suicide vests» and who had multiple weapons, CENTCOM said.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein following their meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March14, 2025. (AP)
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U.S. and Iraqi forces were able to identify al-Rifai using DNA collected in a previous raid where he narrowly escaped.
«Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members in the entire global ISIS organization. We will continue to kill terrorists and dismantle their organizations that threaten our homeland and U.S., allied and partner personnel in the region and beyond,» Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander at CENTCOM, said in a statement.
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