Good evening. It's Friday, September 12th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern promptly, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, the brutal assassination of Charlie Kirk continues to engender very intense emotions, as one would expect.

And as a result, it also presents

all sorts of opportunities for those seeking to exploit those emotions for various ends. This

always happened in the wake of some tumult or crisis. We saw it after 9-11, with COVID, with

January 6th, where all sorts of emotions were exploited for various ends. But whenever there is chaos and

and fear and anger, these emotions are easily directed to try to use them to advance whatever

most suits one agenda. Last night we examined how the intensity of these emotions are being

exploited by many on the right to impose very authoritarian policies, including attacks on free

speech and the weaponization of the FBI against one's political enemies. But as usual, when it comes

to brazen opportunism and deceitful exploitation of Americans' emotions, there is one and only one

undisputed world champion. And his name is Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu

has been so pervasive in American media day after day since the first minutes after Kirk's killings

that one would have thought he was Kirk's best friend or is in deep grieving and mourning,

using television interviews as some sort of therapy

to get him through his sadness.

But Netanyahu's mission is not, I'm sorry,

to say, entirely benevolent.

It is instead as transparent as it is sinister,

namely to insist that Charlie Kirk was Israel's

greatest friend and greatest defender, with the obvious goal of whipping

the American right back into line when it comes to Israel by deceiving them into believing

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