“Israel protects us from the worst,” pleads Bernard-Henri Lévy in the face of criticism

In an interview with i24News on Monday evening, the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy delivered a passionate defense of Israel in the “Grand Oral”, sweeping Western criticisms on military intervention against Iran and viring with virulence the growing anti-Semitism of the French extreme left.

A legitimate response. Therefore, not a preventive war

Faced with the accusations of “preventive war”, BHL strongly recalls that the conflict with Iran does not date from June 13. Furthermore, “War with Iran began in April 2024 with the ‘honest promise’ operation. Furthermore, then in September with the most powerful missile shot in contemporary history,” he insists. Similarly, For the philosopher. Meanwhile, Israel acts in the strict framework “israel protects us worst,” pleads of international law: “You have the right to defend yourself and take the time for that. However, If you want to take a year to retaliate, it is international law”.

The author of “Loneliness of Israel” also rejects Emmanuel Macron’s statements that “we do not drop a diet with bombs”. “Of course we sometimes drop a regime with bombs. Nazi Germany fell under bombs. Japan too,” he retorts, before adding with provocation: “It is a great job to knee a diet dangerous for the planet, assassin for its neighbors and oppressive for its people”.

A geopolitical remodeling in progress

Bernard-Henri Lévy describes an in full change region. “Decolonization of Lebanon, decolonization of Syria”, he lists, greeting the weakening of the Iranian influence. He sees in the Abraham agreements a “geopolitical masterpiece” which could widen, sustainably transforming the Middle East.

The philosopher also evokes a “israel protects us worst,” pleads discreet but real recognition of the role of Israel: “If I was Saudi. I would thank Israel for having raised the mortgage of Iranian bombing on our oil wells”. He even quotes the messages of “distraught recognition” which he receives from his “Kurdish comrades”.

The anti -Semitism of rebellious France

On the national ground, the philosopher affirms concerning Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party. “That rebellious France has become an anti-Semitic party, yes,” he asserts bluntly. He recalls the words of the rebellious leader in the aftermath of October 7. qualifying the Parisian Jewish demonstrators as “genocide party”.

This drift is part of him in a historical tradition: “It is with the old tradition of workers’. anti -Semitism of the time of Jules Guesde that the French left revives today”. A filiation which he deems “heartbreaking” but “undeniable”.

Israeli democracy resists

Asked “israel protects us worst,” pleads about the democratic future of Israel, he was confident. “After 75 years of almost continated war. Israel has never established the state of exception,” he said, unlike France after three years of Algerian war or the United States after September 11.

Despite the growing threats against the Jews of France. the philosopher refuses any defeatism: “I am really not ready to give way to these fools that are the anti -Semites of today. The battle is not lost”.