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He was supposed to come home. He stayed to help others escape—and disappeared into the tunnels of Gaza.

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In this heart-wrenching episode of State of a Nation, Rebecca Bohbot, wife of hostage Elkana Bohbot, joins Eylon Levy to share her family’s unimaginable story. For 664 days, Elkana has been held in Hamas captivity after being abducted from the Nova Music Festival. Starved, tortured, and still alive—Rebecca now speaks publicly, demanding the world not forget her husband or the other hostages left behind.

In this emotional and urgent conversation, Rebecca recounts:
•The day Elkana was taken, after staying behind to help others escape
•Why she initially stayed silent—and what made her speak out
•The horrific conditions Elkana is enduring underground in Gaza
•The heartbreaking toll on their five-year-old son, Re’em
•The global indifference that’s prolonging the hostages’ suffering

Rebecca’s testimony is a raw and powerful reminder of what’s at stake in this war—not just for Israel, but for the soul of the free world.

🎯 “They put a photo of our son on the tunnel wall—to torture him with what he couldn’t have.”

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Award-winning British author, journalist, and political commentator Douglas Murray joins State of a Nation for an explosive two-part special.

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Recorded back in March, this special part 2 of our deep-dive with renowned British author and commentator Douglas Murray, we turn the spotlight to the implications for Western democracies and the stakes at play for not just Israel but the Western World. How do democracies like Israel battle a terrorist organization like Hamas on the information front? What happens behind closed doors when world leaders, journalists, and spokespersons debate the truth?

Douglas gives a raw, unfiltered look into the invisible battlefield: one waged on TV screens, in headlines, and through viral tweets. This is the side of the war you won’t see on the news.

👇 Key topics in this episode:
- Douglas’s take on the moral confusion in the West
- Why the media war is as important as the military one
- The tactics Israel uses to brief foreign press
- How Hamas manipulates civilian imagery for global gain
- The unseen challenges Israeli spokespeople face
- What a real strategy for global messaging could look like

00:00 – Opening & Recap from Part 1
02:42 – Israel’s Media Response Strategy
06:15 – Fighting Propaganda: A War of Narratives
10:50 – Briefing the Press During War
15:08 – Western Hypocrisy & Media Double Standards
19:40 – Psychological Warfare & Image Management
24:05 – How Israel Can Win the Narrative War
40:25 - The Israeli social contract
58:43 - The "original sin" of Israel
1:13:01 - War has returned to Europe

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Canadian political strategist Warren Kinsella joins Eylon Levy to expose the orchestrated information war being waged against Israel and the West. Kinsella reveals the deep coordination behind the anti-Israel protest movement, the shocking role of Iran and Qatar in Western institutions, and how the West has been manipulated into embracing antisemitic propaganda as moral virtue.

In this eye-opening conversation:
- Iran’s fingerprints on the global protest network
- The unholy alliance of Islamists and Marxists targeting Israel
- How Qatar bought its way into American academia
- Why Gen Z equates opposing Israel with fighting racism
- The media collapse that let Hamas fill the vacuum
- What Israel must do to start winning the information war

Featuring insights from Kinsella’s upcoming book The Hidden Hand, this episode is a must-watch for anyone seeking to understand how Israel lost the narrative—and what it will take to win it back.

00:00 – Introduction: Why the West turned on Israel
03:00 – How Iran hijacked the global protest movement
08:00 – Gen Z’s radicalization and Iran’s strategic genius
18:00 – The media collapse and Hamas’s social media machine
21:00 – How Israel lost a generation in the West
27:00 – The CBC’s descent and why Western media failed
30:00 – The unholy alliance: Islamists and the radical left
31:30 – Final thoughts: confronting the hidden hand

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Israel is fighting two wars: one on the battlefield—and one in the headlines. In this explosive episode, Eylon Levy is joined by Israeli-American OSINT sleuth Eitan Fischberger, who breaks down how Hamas has manipulated the global media narrative through lies, disguises, and infiltration.

Fischberger, who rocketed from 2,000 to over 40,000 Twitter followers since October 7, reveals:
• How open-source evidence shows Gaza “journalists” moonlighting as Hamas commanders
• The Hamas-run media training programs feeding footage to Al Jazeera and CNN
• The shocking case of a hospital director exposed as a Hamas colonel
• Why the IDF’s failure to communicate evidence is costing Israel the information war
• Why major news outlets refuse to admit they’ve been duped by terrorists

Watch how one man’s keyboard is doing the work of an army—and why the West's naïveté is Hamas’s greatest weapon.

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00:00 - Introduction: Two Wars, One Battlefield
02:20 - Meet Eitan Fischburger: The Accidental Analyst
05:10 - What Is OSINT and Why It Matters
12:00 - Case Study: Journalists Trained by Terrorists
21:30 - Social Media Evidence: The Sloppy Terrorist Trail
25:15 - Why the IDF Isn’t Winning the Info War
32:30 - Can the Narrative Shift? A Battle for Truth

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British taxpayers are funding Hamas. That’s the bombshell revelation exposed in this week’s episode with legal expert Anne Herzberg from NGO Monitor.
We dive deep into:
- The UK’s role in Gaza’s cash aid system and how Hamas controls who gets paid
- How “humanitarian” agencies like UNICEF and UNRWA became laundering mechanisms for a jihadist regime
- The willful blindness of international aid organizations and why they’re terrified of transparency
- How the West's cash pipeline empowers Hamas and keeps Gaza dependent on terror-linked welfare
- The staggering admission: reputation not terror financing was Britain’s top concern
- Why the aid sector’s hive-mind ideology has enabled 20 years of moral corruption

Anne Herzberg breaks down the document that proves it all and reveals the networks that have allowed Hamas to thrive under the cover of humanitarianism.

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Israel has launched Operation Gideon's Chariots to seize full control of the Gaza Strip and end Hamas rule once and for all. But as the war enters a new phase, the dilemmas grow deadlier and the geopolitics more complex. Eylon Levy is joined by DPR (Daniel Rubenstein), former advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers, IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reservist, and Israeli tour guide, for a razor-sharp discussion dissecting the battlefield, the information war, and Israel’s strategic isolation.

🔹 Why Israel's new Gaza strategy changes everything
🔹 The moral dilemma of humanitarian aid—and how Hamas profits from it
🔹 Eurovision shocks the world: Why Europe voted for Israel
🔹 Trump's Middle East tour: Why he skipped Israel
🔹 Qatar’s role in propping up Hamas—and how the West lets them
🔹 Why the Abraham Accords may have triggered the massacre
🔹 Can Syria make peace with Israel under a former Al-Qaeda leader?

This is a no-holds-barred episode dissecting the geopolitical stakes, the psychological toll, and the media war Israel must now win.

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Who’s really pulling the strings behind the hostage crisis? In this episode, Eylon Levy is joined by Asher Fredman—Executive Director of the Misgav Institute for National Security and former Ministry of Strategic Affairs official —to unpack the shocking realities behind Edan Alexander’s release and the geopolitical theater that surrounds it.

Topics discussed:
- How the U.S. pressured Qatar to force Hamas to release a hostage
- The dangerous spin cycles from Israel, the U.S., and Hamas
- Qatar’s double game as Hamas's patron and Western partner
- The myth of humanitarian leverage: why Gaza reconstruction won’t disarm Hamas
- How international institutions are shielding terrorists and targeting Israel
- Why the ICC and ICJ have lost all moral authority


This episode doesn't offer easy answers—because there are none. But it does break down the strategic dilemmas Israel faces as it fights both on the battlefield and in the courtroom of world opinion.

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Barak Herscowitz, former head of communications for the Israeli government and the whistleblower who exposed TikTok’s anti-Israel bias, joins Eylon Levy to dissect the spin dominating the international conversation around Israel, Hamas, and the Gaza war.
🔹 Why Israel changed its tone on Qatar—and why it might be too little, too late
🔹 The internal political time bomb over Haredi draft exemptions
🔹 Why the West can’t say “thank you” to Israel—even when it defeats Iran’s proxies
🔹 Who’s really in control of humanitarian aid in Gaza? (Hint: it’s not the UN)
🔹 The PR strategy behind hostage negotiations—and how silence helps Hamas
We expose the media manipulation, challenge the narratives, and lay bare the political calculus at play in Jerusalem and beyond.

Chapter Markers
00:00 – Second Intifada memories
00:37 – Introducing Barak Herscowitz
02:24 – Qatar’s October 7 double game
05:23 – Election-year politics & Haredi draft crisis
10:30 – From “sanction Qatar” to “we’ve been played”
14:14 – Pressuring Qatar (and other sponsors) for hostages
19:33 – Resuming the Gaza war: hostages vs. total victory
28:20 – Exit strategy: dismantling Hamas for good
41:11 – TikTok, digital bias & radical content
01:01:23 – Houthi missile at Ben-Gurion: deterrence dilemma

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