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For years, many in the West dismissed Turkey's threats as political theater. But what if they're making the same mistake they made before October 7?

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Eitan Fischberger, OSINT investigator and author of The Fisch Files, about Turkey's increasingly hostile posture toward Israel, its growing influence inside NATO, and the sophisticated information operations shaping Western public opinion. They examine whether Ankara is exploiting its position inside the Western alliance while advancing an agenda fundamentally at odds with it—and why policymakers may be underestimating the strategic consequences.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Turkish state-linked influence networks quietly shape Western discourse online.
• Why Erdogan's rhetoric toward Israel has become increasingly eliminationist—and why it deserves to be taken seriously.
• Whether Turkey is acting as a Trojan horse inside NATO while deepening ties to Hamas, Russia, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
• Why weakening Israel ultimately weakens the broader Western alliance.

The debate over Turkey is no longer just about one country's foreign policy. It is about whether democratic alliances can recognize ideological threats before they become strategic ones. If Western governments ignore hostile rhetoric because it comes from an ally rather than an adversary, they risk repeating dangerous mistakes.

🎯 Key moment:

"Turkey plays this inside-outside game where they like to pretend that they're friends of the West and friends of NATO... but in reality, that just sort of masks their actual agenda, which is something else entirely, and I would argue anti-Western and anti-American in particular."

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This is a moment that calls for American leadership. But if the Iran MOU gives Tehran legitimacy before dismantling its nuclear threat — and the UN system empowers America’s adversaries while America pays for it — what kind of leadership is the West actually getting?

In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Asher Fredman, Executive Director of the Misgav Institute and former senior official in Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Public Security, and Ministry of Strategic Affairs, about the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding with Iran, the strategic consequences for Israel, and Misgav’s new report arguing that the United States should withdraw from much of the UN system and build better alternatives. Together, they ask whether American power is being used to lead — or to legitimize institutions and agreements that reward America’s adversaries.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why it’s problematic for the Iran MOU to give Tehran sanctions relief and hard cash before Iran dismantles its nuclear threat
• The Misgav Institute’s report, From UN Bureaucracy to American Global Leadership, and its case for why the United States should disengage from the UN
• How China and other adversarial powers use the UN system to constrain America while relying on American funding
• Why anti-Israel bias at the UN is not only an Israeli problem, but a warning for every democracy fighting terror

Read the Misgav Institute report discussed in this episode:
https://www.misgavins.org/en/fredman-un-bureaucracy-us-leadership/

Beyond the headlines, this conversation is about whether America can still shape the international order — or whether it is funding, legitimizing, and deferring to systems that now work against its own interests. For Israel, the question is even sharper: when diplomacy rewards Tehran and the UN gives hostile actors a global platform, Israel may have to rely less on being understood, and more on becoming indispensable.

🎯 Key moment:
“At the end of the day, it doesn't matter whether people understand us, it doesn't matter whether they like us, it matters whether they need us.”

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

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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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