DEADANYAHU? Israel is counting on the current AI confusion to hide its war crimes

Benjamin Netanyahu has released another questionable video to prove that he is alive – this time with Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel.

Whether the video is real or not is not the Canary’s main concern. Because that is exactly what Israel wants – confusion and distraction from their continuous war crimes.

Israel: speculation

Currently, social media users are filling the internet with rumours, speculation, and conspiracy theories. Some of them have more evidence than others.

In total, Netanyahu and his team have released at least seven different posts – including photos and videos. These are meant to be ‘proof of life’. All of them have varying degrees of believability, with Israel having clearly published some before Israel’s current illegal attacks on Iran. Others do include signs of manipulation.

However, Israeli ministers know that both rumours about them being dead or purposefully releasing videos that look like AI are going to dominate social media.

Meanwhile, Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran – all at the same time.

Maybe most importantly, when you search ‘Israel AI’, the results now include all of this speculation instead of Israel’s increasing and very extensive use of AI in Gaza.

The media has extensively covered Israel’s use of AI in Gaza. It has turned Gaza into a literal testing ground for using AI to kill people.

As the Canary has previously reported, Israel has fuelled its genocide in Gaza with AI tools like Lavender and the grotesquely named Where’s Daddy, which is:

used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.

This allows the Israeli army to mark tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination. The AI targeting system has very little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.

According to +972 Magazine, the IDF treats decisions that Lavender makes “as if it were a human decision.”

Unlike previous versions of Israel’s AI tech, such as “The Gospel”, – which marks buildings and structures that the army claims militants operate from, Lavender marks people and puts them on a “kill list”

Additionally, there is mounting evidence that AI targeting shaped the US-Israeli attack on Iran.

Confusion is the goal

Maybe Netanyahu is getting a BBL. Maybe he’s dead, and Israel doesn’t want to ruin his genocidal army’s morale. Or maybe he wants us to think he’s dead. There is no way of knowing for sure.

But what we do know for sure is that if he dies, the absolute hell that Israel will rain down on Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, and who the hell knows where else will be like nothing we have seen before – and that’s saying a lot. People across the Middle East will suffer even more than they already do.

People in the West might celebrate his death, but it’s the Arabs and Persians who will suffer even more.

Netanyahu is a despicable human being who deserves to be six feet under. But he is not the entire problem. He is just the current figurehead of the genocidal zionist machine. Zionism does not need Netanyahu to do its dirty work.

Israel is the problem. Zionism is the problem. Western colonialism is the problem.

If Netanyahu dies, none of these disappear. They only get worse.

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