Netanyahu and Huckabee Discuss Punched Card Video Exists

Arab and Muslim governments have condemned remarks made by the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who suggested Israel would be justified in taking over a vast stretch of the Middle East on Biblical grounds.

وقد أخرج نتنياهو بطاقة، قال إنها قائمة بأسماء كبار القادة الإيرانيين الذين تستهدفهم إسرائيل.

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Call it the Brawl at Ben Gurion. During their more than two-hour dialogue, Carlson, the rightwing commentator, repeatedly insinuated that Huckabee was more invested in defending the interests of Israel than those of the country he represents as a US official.

Huckabee later said his remark had been “somewhat of a hyperbolic statement”. But the suggestion that Jews had a divine right to a large part of the Middle East drew a furious response from Muslim governments around the world.

Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, ... Friday. But the video was rapidly dismissed by some online accounts, many with ties to Iran, as an artificial-intelligence-generated fake meant to deceive the world about Mr....

وأوضح والاس أنه قام بإبطاء سرعة المقطع، ليلاحظ وجود خلل رقمي في جيب معطف نتنياهو، وأضاف أن هناك تفاصيل أخرى تثير الريبة في الفيديو، مثل فيزياء حركة القهوة، والرجل الذي يرتدي كمامة في الخلف، وطبيعة المشهد الخلفي. وتساءل عما إذا كان التأخر في الرد على الشائعات يعود إلى محاولة تصميم فيديو يخلو من أي ثغرات باستخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي.

Mike Huckabee, then President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Israel, testifies during his confirmation hearing in March 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) ... Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The U.S. ambassador to Israel denied that a rift was widening between President Donald Trump and Israel or its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, following concerns that the president was sidelining the country in his Middle East policy.

United States Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has triggered an avalanche of criticism from Arab and Muslim countries after suggesting Israel has a right to expand its territory across a large swath of the Middle East.

“The report also said it was not clear if Huckabee was acting under U.S. President Donald Trump’s instructions or on his own initiative," the Israel Times report said, referring to Channel 13 in Israel, which broke the initial story on Huckabee's talk with the Haredi, "adding that Netanyahu was aware of the U.S.

... “We shake hands with five fingers in each hand,” says Netanyahu, referencing false claims on social media that recent videos were AI-generated because they showed the premier with too many fingers.

The video was not limited to humour.At one point, Netanyahu pulls out what he describes as a card listing senior Iranian leaders being targeted by Israel. “Today I erased two names on the punch card,” he says, referring to the overnight ...

Toutes les discussions autour de cette vidéo du Premier ministre israélien montrent comment la confusion autour des contenus par intelligence artificielle permet d’accuser de vraies vidéos d’être fausses.

But social media users claimed that Netanyahu appeared to be taller than Huckabee in the video, which was allegedly caused by a distortion usually seen in visuals generated using Artificial Intelligence.

Vêtu d’un costume bleu foncé, chemise blanche et cravate rouge, Benjamin Netanyahu s’est surtout démarqué, sur le plan vestimentaire avec un QR bien visible accroché à sa veste. En le scannant, ce dernier redirige vers des informations à propos des massacres du 7-Octobre perpétrés par le Hamas. \ud83d\udd34 DIRECT - \ud83d\udde3"Voici où nous en sommes aujourd'hui." Le Premier ministre sort une carte et raye plusieurs régimes, écartés dans la région ces dernières années.