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No evidence Netanyahu is actually dead - but a leader who needs dodgy “proof” videos has got far bigger problem than just rumours. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has put out a second “proof” video, he is alive, honestly, why wouldn’t you believe us the first time? It’s not like we don’t have some of the most powerful AI on Earth and a relationship with the truth so distant it gets measured in parsecs. But this time it took place in a café, and instead of killing the rumour that have been swirling amid the weeks nobody knew where Netanyahu was, to the first video, where he suddenly seemed to grow and extra finger, instead of quashing the debate as to whether he is dead or injured orsimply hiding away because the target on his back has got too big, it has poured petrol on it. This time it might be the smoking gun, because people have watched the thing, frozen it, replayed it, and started pointing to moments that again look wrong in ways ordinary footage is not meant to look wrong. So here it is, stop pause, ponder, point out all you like, does it look suss to you? So what do you reckon then? There’s a few cues worth going into here which certainly make matters a tad questionable. The hand goes toward the pocket and the jacket line appears to move over the hand. The coffee cup gets gripped and barely seems to react. The pattern on top of the drink stays oddly neat after he sips from it. There’s a few other bits too which I’ll go into in a moment. But the fact remains that after one clip blew up in Israel’s face, they’ve released another clip meant to end the argument that has functionally now made matters worse, and that is a humiliation problem before it is anything else. Before anything is actually proven one way or another. A wartime leader tries to project calm, normality and control, and the public end up staring at the coffee cup like it is evidence in a fraud case. There is no real evidence Benjamin Netanyahu is dead here still, that does need to be reinforced before we all disappear down to Wonderland following a white rabbit waving an Israeli flag. It’s worth reinforcing that point as the mainstream media appear to go to pains to say the video is legit as if denying us our own eyes and ears.
By Damien WilleyNo evidence Netanyahu is actually dead - but a leader who needs dodgy “proof” videos has got far bigger problem than just rumours. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has put out a second “proof” video, he is alive, honestly, why wouldn’t you believe us the first time? It’s not like we don’t have some of the most powerful AI on Earth and a relationship with the truth so distant it gets measured in parsecs. But this time it took place in a café, and instead of killing the rumour that have been swirling amid the weeks nobody knew where Netanyahu was, to the first video, where he suddenly seemed to grow and extra finger, instead of quashing the debate as to whether he is dead or injured orsimply hiding away because the target on his back has got too big, it has poured petrol on it. This time it might be the smoking gun, because people have watched the thing, frozen it, replayed it, and started pointing to moments that again look wrong in ways ordinary footage is not meant to look wrong. So here it is, stop pause, ponder, point out all you like, does it look suss to you? So what do you reckon then? There’s a few cues worth going into here which certainly make matters a tad questionable. The hand goes toward the pocket and the jacket line appears to move over the hand. The coffee cup gets gripped and barely seems to react. The pattern on top of the drink stays oddly neat after he sips from it. There’s a few other bits too which I’ll go into in a moment. But the fact remains that after one clip blew up in Israel’s face, they’ve released another clip meant to end the argument that has functionally now made matters worse, and that is a humiliation problem before it is anything else. Before anything is actually proven one way or another. A wartime leader tries to project calm, normality and control, and the public end up staring at the coffee cup like it is evidence in a fraud case. There is no real evidence Benjamin Netanyahu is dead here still, that does need to be reinforced before we all disappear down to Wonderland following a white rabbit waving an Israeli flag. It’s worth reinforcing that point as the mainstream media appear to go to pains to say the video is legit as if denying us our own eyes and ears.