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Source: https://www.australianjewishnews.com/exclusive-one-on-one-with-israeli-advocate-eylon-levy/
Israel Is Surrounded by Very Violent and Dangerous People Who Want Us Dead
(Australian Jewish News) Carly Adno - Former Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy said in an interview last week that he isn't surprised by the rampant antisemitism seen on campuses around the Western world. "I remember over a decade ago, when I was at Oxford, a BDS motion came up with the student union and we managed to defeat it by a margin of six to one. That's unthinkable nowadays. I spoke with one of the proponents of the motion and I asked her why she was doing this." "She said, 'I'm left-wing, it's just part of what we do.' It's just part of the bundle of causes that if you support LGBT rights and don't like oil and you're a vegetarian, that you also think Israel should die. What has surprised me is just how deeply entrenched and how little resistance that ideology has found." "If this war ends with Hamas on its feet, there will be a next time. And it will be worse because Hamas will feel that it survived this war thanks to international pressure on Israel to leave its army of terror in place after the war it started." "The current crisis is not only a war between Israel and a Palestinian terrorist group in Gaza, it's a war in which Israel has come under attack on eight fronts by Iran and its proxy allies, including in the Diaspora, where the output of antisemitism and intimidation of Jewish communities around the world is a genie that's not going back in the bottle." "Israel's strategic condition is the same as it was in 1948 - we're surrounded by very violent and dangerous people who want us dead. Iran's axis of evil, a network of proxy armies, is something that will have to be confronted and dealt with globally, even after the current round of hostilities comes to a close." "We're outnumbered and outgunned in this battle for global public opinion - there are simply far more people who are automatically primed to believe the worst about Israel and the Jews, and they have politically motivated and biased international officials feeding them information that supports their paranoias." "Fighting this information war...is to say UNRWA is a Hamas front. Yes, people are suffering. No, they are not being helped by an organization that is an integral part of Hamas's military machine in Gaza and is laundering its propaganda and is covering up the Jihadi death cults' abuse of their facilities and resources, and aid and your taxpayer dollars that go to UNRWA are a direct subsidy to the Hamas army of terror....There is important humanitarian work to do, but it isn't by going through an organization that exists to perpetuate the Palestinians' forever war against Israel and make any resolution of this conflict impossible."