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A month of war is exhausting. But worse than the sirens, the sleepless nights, and the chaos is watching serious people say unserious things with total confidence.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Shany Mor, former Israeli National Security Council official and academic, about the flood of bad analysis surrounding Israel’s war with Iran. They examine why so many commentators, diplomats, and self-described experts keep recycling arguments that collapse under basic scrutiny, from claims that Iran is somehow winning, to the idea that international law exists mainly to constrain Israel while shielding those attacking it. The conversation goes to the heart of a larger question: what happens when moral posturing replaces strategic thinking in the way the West talks about war, deterrence, and Israel’s right to defeat its enemies?

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why the claim that striking terrorists only “creates more terrorists” is applied obsessively to Israel and almost nowhere else
• How “international law” is often invoked against Israel in ways that are incoherent, selective, and politically motivated
• Why ceasefire diplomacy so often freezes threats in place instead of removing them
• How fantasy narratives about the Iran deal, deterrence, and “forever wars” distort what Israel is actually facing

This conversation goes beyond headlines and talking points. It is about whether democratic societies still know how to think seriously about war, victory, deterrence, and self-defense. If the West cannot distinguish between ending a threat and managing it forever, it will keep rewarding aggression and punishing those willing to confront it.

🎯 Key moment:
“People who make these big, empirically verifiable statements often count on us not going out and verifying them.”

🎙 Filmed at M10 Studios, Tel Aviv

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00:00 – Intro: Israel, War & Western Naivety
02:09 – Meet Sharren Haskel + Life During War
05:00 – Weak Western Leadership & Europe’s Internal Pressures
09:29 – Israel’s Real Advantage: People & National Identity
15:00 – Europe’s Military Decline & Strategic Weakness
17:35 – Israel as a Rising World Power
19:36 – The New Middle East: Competing Power Blocs
24:38 – Gulf States, Iran & Regional Turning Point
26:21 – What Happens After the War?
27:25 – Could the Iranian Regime Collapse?
28:37 – Netanyahu, October 7 & Strategic Shift
40:00 – The West’s Broken Approach & Hypocrisy
48:35 – Why Peace Efforts Failed & What Comes Next
55:58 – Sirens Interrupt + Outro

The Middle East is being redrawn in real time. The question now is not whether Israel has power, but what it will do with it.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Sharren Haskel, Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister, about how October 7 and the war that followed transformed Israel from a country under siege into a state projecting force across the region. They discuss how Israel has emerged as a new regional power, why much of the West still struggles to understand the threat from Iran, and what a stronger Israel means for the future of the Middle East, the democratic world, and the fight against Islamist extremism.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why mass Muslim immigration from antisemitic countries is dictating European foreign policy
• How Israel and the United States are doing the world’s “dirty work” by confronting the Iranian regime
• Why Western leaders keep trying to freeze conflicts instead of solving them
• How the fall of Iran’s regional axis could reshape Israel’s ties with Arab states

This conversation goes beyond battlefield updates to a deeper question: what kind of power Israel is becoming. If Israel emerges from this war stronger, more feared, and more central to regional security, then the real challenge will be how that power is used, how it is judged, and whether the West is capable of understanding the stakes before it is too late.

🎯 Key moment:
“October 7 will go down as one of the greatest strategic blunders in modern warfare, because instead of wiping Israel off the map, it has entrenched Israel more firmly on the map than ever before.”

🎙 Filmed at M10 Studios, Tel Aviv https://m10.co.il/video-podcast-studio-tel-aviv

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00:00: The Disinformation Apocalypse
06:39: How the Netanyahu Conspiracy Started
09:16: Bots, Sock Puppets, and Troll Farms
11:59: The State Actors Behind Disinformation
14:58: The Business of Online Hate and Propaganda
17:50: How Coordinated Networks Spread Conspiracies
20:32: Why Western Societies Are So Vulnerable
23:04: Viral Fakes, AI Hoaxes, and the Tel Aviv Lies
25:42: Can Social Media Be Fixed?
35:39: How Democracies Should Fight Back
41:19: What Individuals Can Do

When people no longer trust their own eyes, disinformation stops being background noise and becomes a battlefield.

The conspiracy that Benjamin Netanyahu is dead may sound absurd. But the ease with which it spread reveals something far more serious: hostile actors no longer need bombs alone to destabilize democracies. They can do it with algorithms, fake accounts, recycled footage, and millions of willing believers.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Travis Hawley, a former US Air Force intelligence analyst and open-source investigator, about how the conspiracy theory that Netanyahu is dead went viral, who helped push it, and what it reveals about the broader information war facing Israel and the West. They explore how state and non-state actors exploit social media, AI, and collapsing public trust to spread falsehoods, inflame hatred, and weaken democratic societies from within.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How the “Netanyahu is dead” conspiracy spread from fringe rumor to mass delusion
• The role of Iran-linked propaganda, bot networks, troll farms, and useful idiots in amplifying lies
• Why fake footage of destroyed Tel Aviv and AI hoaxes are part of a wider asymmetric war
• Whether democracies can defend themselves when social media rewards manipulation over truth

This conversation goes beyond one viral lie. It is about what happens when open societies are flooded with industrial-scale deception and citizens lose the ability to distinguish evidence from narrative. Understanding that threat correctly is no longer optional. It is a matter of democratic self-defense.

🎯 Key moment:
“They don’t need to destroy Western civilization with bombs. They will do it with tweets.”

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