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There is a price to war. But there is also a price to ending a war on the enemy’s terms — and that price can be more war.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with listeners in an emergency solo episode after Israel and Iran traded fire in a dangerous 24-hour escalation. He explains why the question is not simply whether Israel should “stop shooting,” but whether Iran can use missile attacks to force Israel to stop defending itself against Hezbollah. At stake is the future of deterrence, the freedom of Lebanon, the security of northern Israel, and whether Iranian proxy armies can drag the region into war whenever Tehran decides.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why Iran’s missile fire was really about protecting Hezbollah from Israeli retaliation
• The danger of ending a war too soon if it rewards aggression and invites the next round
• How Iran’s “ring of fire” — Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis — has become a strategic liability for Tehran
• The “Pride paradox”: why Israelis want normal life to resume, but cannot accept a reality where Iran can cancel it at will

This episode moves beyond the headlines of ceasefires, missile salvos, and calls for restraint. The deeper question is whether Israel can be expected to absorb attacks from Iranian-backed forces while the world demands calm from the country being targeted. If Iran learns that firing missiles at Israeli cities carries no price, the next escalation will not be a surprise. It will be the result of a message the world allowed Tehran to hear.

🎯 Key moment:
“If you want peace, you don’t reward aggression. If you want Lebanon free, you don’t give Hezbollah immunity.”

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Britain was once seen as a model of stability, decency, and quiet integration for its Jewish community. Today, many British Jews are asking whether that promise still holds.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Dov Forman, New York Times bestselling author of Lily’s Promise, former adviser to Robert Jenrick, and a prominent voice against antisemitism in the UK, about Britain’s worsening antisemitism crisis, the rise of anti-Israel radicalism, and whether Jewish life in the UK is becoming increasingly unsustainable. They discuss Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy, the normalization of anti-Zionist hostility, Iran-backed threats on British soil, the failures of policing and prosecution, and what all this means for Britain, Israel, democracy, and the future of the West.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How antisemitism in Britain moved from the political fringe into mainstream society
 • Why “anti-Zionism” has become a social purity test for British Jews
 • How weekly anti-Israel marches, weak law enforcement, and political cowardice have emboldened extremists
 • Whether Britain can still offer a secure future for its Jewish community, or whether more Jews will look to Israel

This conversation moves beyond headlines about protests and political slogans. The deeper question is whether a democratic society can protect a small minority when ideological extremism, foreign influence, and social intimidation are allowed to grow unchecked. For British Jews, this is not an abstract debate about foreign policy. It is about whether they can walk openly as Jews, speak honestly about Israel, and trust the institutions meant to protect them.

🎯 Key moment:
 “The purity test doesn’t actually exist, because the man who stabbed two Jews didn’t ask them what their stance on Israel was before he attacked them.”

🎙 Filmed at M10 Studios, Tel Aviv 

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A U.S.-Iran deal may reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It does not necessarily remove the threat — it may simply shift the burden back onto Israel.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, about the future of the Iranian threat, the risks of a suboptimal U.S.-Iran deal, and whether the Islamic Republic can be contained without regime change. They discuss the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s nuclear program, the limits of diplomacy, Israel’s shadow war, and the broader strategic question facing the West: whether democratic allies are prepared to weaken their enemies before those enemies recover.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why reopening the Strait of Hormuz without confronting Iran’s core threats could create a dangerous precedent 
•  Whether Iran’s nuclear program has been seriously set back — or merely driven deeper underground 
•  How a U.S.-Iran deal could leave Israel with more responsibility and less diplomatic cover 
•  Why Dubowitz argues Israel must focus on weakening the Islamic Republic before it rebuilds 

This conversation moves beyond the immediate headlines over diplomacy and ceasefires. The deeper question is whether the West is prepared to confront the Islamic Republic as a strategic enemy, or whether it will settle for temporary arrangements that leave Israel facing the same threat again — only stronger, richer, and harder to stop.

🎯 Key moment:
 “Israel has two and a half years under President Trump to bring down the Islamic Republic of Iran.”

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Hollywood helped shape the modern Jewish story. But after October 7, the question is whether the entertainment industry still has the courage to tell Jewish and Israeli stories honestly.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Jonah Platt, actor, writer, host of Being Jewish, and a leading voice on Jewish identity in Hollywood, about whether Jews and Israel are being pushed into the villain role in American culture. They discuss the fear around Jewish representation, the chilling effect around Israel, the battle inside Hollywood after October 7, and why storytelling matters in the broader fight for moral clarity, democracy, and the West’s understanding of Israel.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why some actors and studios are afraid to touch even apolitical Jewish stories 
•  The difference between anti-Israel activism in Hollywood and the quieter Jewish fightback behind the scenes 
•  How “oppressor vs. oppressed” narratives shape the cultural space around Israel 
•  Why Jewish and Israeli creators need to tell better, more compelling stories before others define them 

This conversation moves beyond celebrity politics. The real stakes are cultural: who gets to define Jews, Zionism, Israel, and moral legitimacy for the next generation. If the only Jewish stories allowed are safe, detached, or stripped of Israel, then the Jewish people lose more than representation — they lose narrative power.

🎯 Key moment:
 “We can’t have any more Jews writing movies about Norwegians. They gotta be about Jews in Israel, because we need to be telling our own stories.” 

You can follow Jonah and listen to Being Jewish with Jonah Platt on all major podcast platforms and on social media at @JonahPlatt and @BeingJewishPodcast.

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Israel’s longest border is also its quietest. But how stable is that quiet really?

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Aaron Magid, author of The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan, about Israel’s cold peace with Jordan, the fragility beneath the 1994 peace treaty, and why instability in the Hashemite Kingdom would have serious consequences for Israel, the region, and the West. 

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why Jordan remains one of Israel’s most important security partners despite hostile public opinion
 • How King Abdullah has kept the peace treaty intact under pressure from the Jordanian street
 • The role of American aid, Israeli water and gas, and Jordanian security cooperation
 • Why the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, and Palestinian politics make Jordan a critical strategic front

Beyond the headlines, this conversation is about the danger of assuming quiet borders are permanent. Jordan’s monarchy has weathered crises before, but Israel cannot afford to mistake silence for stability or cold peace for real normalization.

🎯 Key moment:
 “Two thirds of Jordanians supported the Hamas initiative.”

🎙 Filmed at M10 Studios, Tel Aviv 

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War is easy to start. Peace is much harder to build. And in the Middle East, the difference between a breakthrough and a mirage can be a matter of political will.

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Dan Feferman, co-founder and co-editor of Middle East 24, former executive director of Sharaka, and an IDF reserves major, about the sudden and extraordinary possibility of peace talks between Israel and Lebanon. They unpack how Hezbollah’s weakening, Lebanon’s internal political shifts, and American mediation have created an opening that would have seemed unimaginable just a few years ago — and whether this moment could produce a real strategic shift or just another temporary pause before the next war.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why the real conflict is not between Israel and Lebanon, but between both states and Hezbollah 
•  How Israeli military pressure changed the political balance inside Lebanon 
•  Whether the Lebanese state can actually confront Hezbollah without sliding into civil war 
•  Why parts of the Western media and European leadership still misunderstand this moment 

This conversation goes beyond the headlines to ask what peace would actually require: not just ceasefires or diplomatic theater, but the dismantling of an Iranian proxy that has held Lebanon hostage and kept both countries trapped in a conflict neither population truly wants. Getting this right matters not only for Israel and Lebanon, but for the wider struggle between regional stability and the forces that profit from permanent war.

🎯 Key moment:
“War should end with peace, not a piece of paper.”

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World leaders say they stand with the people of Iran. But when the Islamic Republic is finally under real pressure, many of the same voices suddenly want de-escalation.

What exactly are Western leaders so afraid of: a wider war, or the fall of the regime itself?

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Jonathan Schanzer, Executive Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, about whether regime change in Iran is still a realistic outcome, why Western governments seem more frightened by instability than by tyranny, and what the fall of the Islamic Republic could mean for Israel, the Gulf states, Europe, and the future balance of power in the Middle East.

In this episode, we discuss:

•  Why so many Western leaders prefer the “devil they know” in Tehran to the uncertainty of regime collapse 
•  Whether the war is actually creating the conditions for regime change after the bombing stops 
•  How Gulf states, Europe, Turkey, Russia, and China are positioning themselves for the day after 
•  Whether a weakened Iran leads to containment, covert action, or a full scramble to remake the region 

This conversation goes beyond the immediate battlefield. It asks whether the West still has the confidence to confront openly hostile regimes, or whether it has become so risk-averse that it now fears the collapse of tyranny more than tyranny itself. Getting that question wrong will shape not just Iran’s future, but the future of regional order and Western credibility.

🎯 Key moment:
 “When the bombing stops, that’s when the interesting stuff is very likely to begin.”

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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.”

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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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