Eylon Levy
I wrote in an earlier post that Israel has been losung the information war since the attack on October 7.
Example - watching the news on MSNBC yesterday, their correspondent in Israel gave the opinion of a Palestinian friend of hers in Gaza as if it was fact .... Israel has told people in the humanitarian zone to move again, but "there is no place to go". That just isn't true. From The Hill ...
[...] Israel’s military said on Sunday it was widening the humanitarian zone in response to Hamas’s “exploitation” of the zone “for terrorist acts and the continuous firing of rockets towards the State of Israel,” according to a post on the social platform X. Israel released leaflets to areas of Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, and made phone calls to residents warning them to flee, saying, “remaining in this block has become dangerous.” ...
In response to this information problem, one person has been trying to make a difference - Eylon Levy ...
Eylon Aslan-Levy, also known as Eylon Levy, is a British-Israeli figure who served as official Israeli government spokesman, from the start of 2023 Israel–Hamas war to March 2024, when he was suspended.
Levy was born in London, United Kingdom. He attended University College School in London and University of Oxford, where he received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics in 2013. He moved to Israel in 2014 at the age of 23 to join the Israeli military during the 2014 Gaza War. In 2016, Levy began work as the chief news anchor at IBA News, and then later presented news at i24NEWS.
In 2021, Israeli president Isaac Herzog appointed him as his international media advisor at the Office of the President of Israel. After the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, he became an official Israeli government spokesman and one of Israel's most internationally recognized faces in the war.
On March 19, 2024, Levy was suspended as spokesman "after complaints from the UK government" ...
At the top of the post is a video of a talk he gave in Milan, titled "Does Truth Matter Anymore?".
I wish people would listen, because the truth does matter. And you may say that the truth ... facts ... are changeable depending on your pov. No. Facts are the closest correlation of information with actual reality. And I don't think people are paying attention to the facts on the Israel/Hamas war, mostly because they just don't like them.
posted by crystal | 11:44 AM
2 Comments:
Yes the truth does matter! Trouble is, two or more things can be true at the same time. First, that Israel has a right to exist and defend itself. Second, that war is a tragedy that traumatizes everyone it touches, and that the worst trauma doesn't happen to the ones who started the war, but to the non-combatants, especially women, children, and elderly.
Yes, that is war. But I don't see an alternative. No country with military resources would not go after the perpetrators of October 7. To not try to destroy Hamas would send a message to all their neighbors that Israel can be attacked without consequences. They can't do that to their citizens. That's why the US state dept says that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to defend itself. Sadly it means just misery for everyone. Hamas caused this nightmare for Israelis and Gazans. It will be a travesty of justice if they survive this.
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