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womanofthehills

(11,040 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 04:42 PM Aug 2025

Netahyahu blames BOTS in the US for hurting Israel's media propaganda

OMG! Even the Republicans are waking up - it’s BOTS


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After he slaughtered 10% of the Gaza population Netanyahu now claims people in Gaza begging Israel to 'free us' from Hamas:

"Our goal not to occupy Gaza, our goal to free Gaza"


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Grok:

Recent reports indicate that Israel's government has authorized the mobilization of up to 430,000 reservists by November 30, 2025, as part of a plan to expand military operations in Gaza, including the potential occupation of Gaza City. This significant call-up, one of the largest since the conflict began, is intended to support an operation that could last at least six months, according to military forecasts. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) aim to seize control of Gaza City, with plans to evacuate over 800,000 residents to the Mawasi humanitarian zone in southern Gaza over six weeks before ground operations begin. The mobilization involves six IDF divisions and is expected to intensify efforts to defeat Hamas and secure hostages, amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the region.

However, some skepticism exists regarding the exact number of reservists. Posts on X and certain reports suggest the figure may be inflated or vary, with earlier estimates citing around 200,000 to 250,000 reservists for a full Gaza occupation. Despite these discrepancies, the scale of the mobilization reflects a major escalation in Israel's military strategy.[](https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-allows-430000-reservists-be-called)[](https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/08/10/over-400000-reservists-called-to-idf-as-new-operation-expected-to-start/)[](https://www.arabobserver.com/over-400000-reservists-called-to-idf-as-new-operation-expected-to-start/)
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hlthe2b

(114,716 posts)
2. He can only wish.... There are none so blind as those who will not see...(unattributed)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 05:14 PM
Aug 2025

-but I am NOT blind and I SEE.

sheshe2

(98,470 posts)
5. Grok?! Now we rely on Elon MUSK to answer questions about Israel/ Palestine!?
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 06:09 PM
Aug 2025
When xAI’s Grok 4 chatbot was launched on Wednesday, users and media outlets quickly began pointing out examples of it consulting its owner Elon Musk’s views on controversial matters.

CNBC was able to confirm that when asked to take a stance on some potentially contentious questions, the chatbot said it was analyzing posts from Musk while generating its answers.

When asked, “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer,” Grok 4′s answer-generating process showed that it was searching the web and X for Elon Musk’s stance before giving an answer.


https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/grok-4-appears-to-reference-musks-views-when-answering-questions-.html?msockid=3e31da3225926db13b41cc1224466c60

lapucelle

(21,130 posts)
14. Two of Grok's three sources are right wing websites.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:08 PM
Aug 2025

The other is a masked domain.

The domain uses a WHOIS privacy protection service, which masks the owner's personal information in the public WHOIS database. This means details like their name, address, and email are not publicly available.

Maru Kitteh

(32,015 posts)
6. So I guess we're all bots now. I've never met anyone who thinks
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 06:31 PM
Aug 2025

what Israel is doing right now is good. That it’s a good thing. It’s not good. I think about 97% of anybody who has a pulse is pretty settled on that. Like Hamas is evil and horrible and shouldn’t exist, but Israel is looking every single bit as bad as Hamas these days and that’s on you, Bibi.

LexVegas

(6,962 posts)
10. Yeah, there are no "bots" spamming anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-Jew, pro-Hamas propaganda almost exclusively. nt
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 11:05 AM
Aug 2025

Rob H.

(5,923 posts)
13. Who would've guessed that dropping 2,000lb bombs on a concentration camp full of children
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 12:00 PM
Aug 2025

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and wiping out entire familial bloodlines while obliterating neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, and mosques, and killing doctors and aid workers and assassinating journalists would make for negative publicity?

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
17. Bibi has his own methods of handling the media.
Tue Aug 12, 2025, 01:00 PM
Aug 2025

Reporting genocide, mass deportation, and starvation makes unarmed reporters targets.

An Israeli airstrike kills a prominent Al Jazeera journalist and colleagues in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Journalists cried out in disbelief Sunday night as they stepped into a press tent in Gaza City that had been hit in an Israeli airstrike targeting the territory's most prominent and well-recognized journalist, Anas al-Sharif.

In all, six Palestinian journalists were killed in that attack, five of them reporting for Al Jazeera: Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qraiqea, Ibrahim al-Thaher, Mohamed Nofal and freelance reporter Mohammed al-Khaldi.

The attack on the journalists, and al-Sharif in particular, was roundly condemned by groups representing journalists, even as Israel's Arabic military spokesman shared what he said was proof that the correspondent was a Hamas cell commander — an allegation first levied last year.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called Israel's allegations against al-Sharif, which he rebutted before his killing, "unsubstantiated." After the attack, the group said Israel was "murdering messengers."





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