Cushioning World War 3 rhetoric: Exiled Israel ambassador thinks common sense will prevail

With fears of the war in the Middle East escalating into World War 3, BizNews speaks to Israel’s Ambassador to South Africa, Eli Belotsercovsky. He says: “…we have to fight back. And we will. And particularly after this attack, which endangered the lives of many, many Israelis, we will have to respond - and we will choose the time and the way to do it.” However, the ambassador says that the conditions for a World War “have not been created yet”. “I think that common sense will prevail. And those regimes like Iran that try to destabilise the world order, that try to bring more violence, to use terror as a tool to gain more political gains, I think that if we manage to prevent them from doing this and to block them, I think there would be no war.” Meanwhile, he describes the sombre mood in Israel on the eve of the 1st anniversary of the October 7 terror attack. He also deals with accusations that Israel is an Apartheid state, and dissects the clashing narratives about Israel’s war again Hamas, Hezbollah, and the clerical regime of Iran.