Bernard-Henry Levy; the Ugly Jew.

Sami Jamil Jadallah
Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

There are hundreds if not thousands of “Jews” who enriched our lives and that of humanity with their talented contributions to the arts, to the literature, to music, to cinema, to science, to medicine, to physics, to sociology and psychology, to freedoms, to civil rights and liberties and law, Bernard-Henry Levy is not one of them. he is full of it.

At the recent Cannes Film Festival, Bernard –Henry Levy who thinks of himself as modern day Voltaire and was able to get the French media to proclaim him as the “philosopher” of France, was on one his many ego trips, presented his own documentary about the Libyan revolution “ Le Serment de Tobrouk” or “ The Oath of Tobruk” narrated, directed by himself and of course were he was the central figure of the documentary, dashing in the desert with his crisp summer suit, a modern day Lawrence. Continue reading

“YOU are Fed Up?”

Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery

“YOU CAN lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all of the time.”

This slightly altered quotation from Abraham Lincoln has yet to be absorbed by Binyamin Netanyahu. He thinks it doesn’t apply to him. Actually, that is the core of his entire political career.

This week, he was given a very instructive lesson. After being treated to dozens of cordial encounters between Netanyahu and Nicholas Sarkozy, Israeli TV viewers got a glimpse of reality. It came in the form of an exchange of views between the presidents of the US and of France.

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