On the LCI set, Sunday October 6, Bernard-Henri Lévy directly targeted Dominique de Villepin and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. According to him, “there is at [eux] something other than cold calculation, there is a hatred that he inspires, that he releases. A hatred of Israel and those whose name Israel is, that is, the Jews”.
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Dominique de Villepin instantly stepped up to the plate. On the same channel, this Monday, October 7, the former Prime Minister claimed that these comments were nothing but nonsense. “slander” a you ” lie “, and that they had no place “in the democratic debate”., calling instead for ” dignity ” and at « respect »on the sidelines of October 7, one year to the day after the Hamas attack on Israeli soil.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon impassive
He demanded an apology from the essayist. “I cannot accept such words from Bernard-Henri Lévy which undermine the dignity that every man must have when he expresses himself in the public space”he regrets.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for his part, appeared impassive in the face of the essayist’s attacks. “De Villepin, you are wasting your time with BHL who insults us”he simply communicated on X (formerly Twitter).
Like the founder of La France insoumise, Dominique de Villepin pleads for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, while Bernard-Henri Lévy called for ” help ” Israel “to defeat Hamas”arguing that it would be “a fault” of request a ceasefire. “The debate is not at all about any Jewish issue or any Israel issue. What opposes me to Bernard-Henri Lévy? This is the question of war and peace”the former Minister of Foreign Affairs tried to explain.
