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Requiem for Syria

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, February 28, 2018

It is fashionable to second-guess the cost of interventions that did not deliver on all of their promises, but what we’re witnessing now is far more bloody and disastrous than timely intervention could possibly have been.

King Ubu, Trump’s Dadaist Precursor

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, January 19, 2018

Alfred Jarry’s character is the president’s true predecessor, right down to the bad words.

Trump, Jerusalem, and the Jews

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, December 19, 2017

Was it cheap politics or historical concern and fellow-feeling that motivated the president to declare his allegiance to the millennial capital?

The Kurds, Trump, and the Decline of American Power

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 31, 2017

Why the United States’ inexplicable abandonment of the Kurdish people is ‘the geopolitical equivalent of a stock-market crash’.

Who Betrayed the Kurdish People?

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 22, 2017

Two years after the Kurds fought against the Islamic State, America turned its back as they sought independence.

The United States Serves Up Kurdistan to Iran on a Silver Platter

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, October 18, 2017

‘We should not have abandoned Kurdistan, the only real pole of stability in the region’.

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani Speaks

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 29, 2017

The day after his successful independence referendum, the commander of the Peshmerga talks with Bernard-Henri Lévy about Kurdistan’s neighbors Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, French President Macron, and the future of his people.

American Jews Should Care About and Support the Independence of Kurdistan

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, September 20, 2017

Iraqi Kurdistan is one of the very rare areas of the Middle East where Jews and Judaism are viewed positively.

The Day a Jewish General Invented a Muslim Country

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, August 07, 2017

How J.F.R. Jacob saved hundreds of thousands of lives in the land that became Bangladesh.

Mosul Is Liberated – But Not Yet Free

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet, July 12, 2017

Who will rebuild the destroyed Iraqi city? Who will shepherd the refugees to safety? Who will reward the Kurds with the regionally stabilizing state they deserve?