As RedState’s Bonchie reported, the billionaire owner of social media platform X and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX made a visit to Israel Monday to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as President Isaac Herzog to discuss the Israel-Hamas war, antisemitism on X, and the accusations that have been hurled at Musk that he himself is antisemitic.

Netanyahu on Monday took Musk on a tour of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, which was the site of extreme Hamas savagery during their Oct 7 terror attacks and where they killed and in some cases beheaded babies. There were 52 confirmed deaths at the site, and at least 20 people are still missing. 

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After the tour, Netanyahu showed Musk a video of the attacks on Israeli civilians. The two men then livestreamed a conversation on X.

“It was jarring to see the scene of the massacre,” Musk said during the conversation, adding that it was “troubling” to see the joy expressed by those killing innocent civilians, referring to the video he was shown. “The propaganda must stop that is training people to be murderers in future,” Musk said. He added that for a lasting peace, Gaza must be made more prosperous, and that he “would love to help.”

Israel has been visited by dozens of foreign dignitaries since its war with Hamas began over 50 days ago, but few if any have been given the level of attention that Musk has by the Israeli prime minister and other senior Israeli officials.

During Musk’s meeting with Herzog, meanwhile, the Israeli president said, “You have a huge role to play [in fighting antisemitism]. I think we need to fight it together because on the platforms which you lead, unfortunately, there’s a harboring of a lot of all the hate.”

Musk responded, “We have to do whatever is necessary to stop the hate.”

But Elon also took a hard line against the Hamas killers during the talk:

"There's no choice but to kill those who insist on murdering civilians. There’s no choice. They’re not going to change their mind.” - Elon Musk to President Herzog

Terrorists like Hamas must be obliterated. #StopHamas pic.twitter.com/japrnROhqQ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 27, 2023

"It certainly has been an emotionally difficult day," Musk said, "to see the places where people were murdered. I just did a talk with the prime minister, and I think that there's... Obviously, there are three things that need to happen in the Gaza situation. There's no choice but to kill those who insist on murdering civilians. There's no choice."

His other two points were that the education system must be changed to stop new murderers from being "trained," and that an effort must be made to "build prosperity" in the region.

The tech titan also discussed the use of satellite communication in Gaza. Musk not only runs X and Tesla, but he’s also the boss of the Starlink service, a vital source of satellite internet connectivity in over 60 countries where broadband service is not readily available:

Separately Monday, Israel’s communications minister, Shlomo Karhi, said in a post on X that an agreement in principle had been reached with Musk in regards to the operations of the Starlink communications service.

Under the agreement, Karhi said, Starlink satellite units can only be operated in Israel and the Gaza Strip with the approval of the communications ministry. Starlink is owned by Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, and provides internet connectivity using a swarm of satellites.

The move is aimed at preventing Hamas from using Starlink’s internet service to coordinate its movements and strategies. “We don’t want Hamas, which is a terror organization, to have communications that could give us difficulties,” said a former cyber official in Israel’s national security services.

Musk was also there to push back on recent charges that he is an antisemite. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said recently. Read Bonchie’s excellent explanation of how certain anti-Musk forces are desperately trying to portray him as an extremist and how he's refuting those claims:

Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit to Israel, Sets the Record Straight on Accusations of Antisemitism

I don't know if Elon Musk drinks Dos Equis, but he certainly has become "the most interesting man in the world"—or at least one of them. Whether you’re a fan or a detractor, there’s no denying that he’s become a major force in world affairs.