Clifford D. May wrote an article about Bernard-Henri Levy’s book (and films) in which the author described the misery he witnessed around the world during his travels.
An acknowledged self-promoter, Levy attributed
to himself the character of being “Baudelairean,” about which Clifford May
said: “I don’t know what that means either.” Well, that’s too bad because, had May
tried to be informed about what that is, he would have given his readers a much
richer description of Levy, as well as the subjects he discussed in his book
and films.
“Baudelairean” refers to Charles Baudelaire,
a nineteenth century French poet and essayist who lived a difficult family
life, and sought to escape his personal misery as well as that of his country
(caught in the throes of the Industrial Revolution’s early years) by travelling
abroad where he witnessed an equal amount of human misery, but also the
pristine beauty of the Middle East that was endlessly celebrated by the
romantics of nineteenth century Europe.
Baudelaire met and befriended Jean Nicolas
Rimbaud, a fellow traveler, commodity trader and arms dealer who inspired the
Hollywood series Rambo. All of that contributed to the insight that motivated
Baudelaire to write and compile his work into a book he called “Les Fleurs du
Mal,” which was translated literally as “The Flowers of Evil,” but I would have
translated as the flowering of evil because it better reflects the content of
the book.
Thus, you can see why Bernard-Henri Levy saw
similarities between himself and Charles Baudelaire. You can also detect
something crucial about the Levy character. It is the pessimism that led him to
conclude the Jewish ideology is so irredeemable, the only way the Jews will be
saved, is to have humanity develop an unquestionable love for them, and never
try to understand why.
Instead of us retaining any of that, here is
what Clifford May wants us to retain about Bernard-Henri Levy (BHL) and his
escapades:
“We should give credit where credit is due:
BHL uses his celebrity to bring attention to people and places in severe
distress yet ignored by the major media, politicians and bureaucrats often
referred to as ‘the international community’”.
This is the moment when we need to realize
how loaded the word “credit” is, and how much it can contribute to the
distortion of reality. And so, to give the word itself the credit it is due, we
need to recall the misery of the most unimaginable kind, that has befallen Libya
because BHL used his celebrity to bring attention to a non-existent distress in
that country.
Not only did the people of Libya suffer
horrendous pain, but so did their immediate neighbors, and so did countries as
far away as Nigeria where groups such as Boko Haram and the Fula people that
were never heard from before, were heard from now. They suddenly appeared on
the scene armed with weapons that came from Libya’s arsenal, now broken into,
and looted of its deadly content that was sold all over Africa, including to
Nigeria’s Fulani whom Clifford May accuses of despicable crimes. He does not associate
BHL with any of those crimes – not even indirectly – but praises him for
bringing the horrors of Nigeria to the attention of the international
community.
This is a display of the Jewish method for
causing a calamity and blaming it, not on the root causes which can easily be
traced to the Jews and to Israel’s activities in Africa and elsewhere, but on
the victims who bear the brunt of its consequences. Indeed, Clifford May
neglected to mention that the calamities of Africa were due not only to what
Levy brought to Libya, but also what Israel brought to Nigeria.
In fact, it happened that when oil was
discovered in Nigeria, the only thing that the poor people did in response to
being kept away from the wealth pouring into the country, was to steal some of
the oil when they could, and sell it for a few dollars to buy food for their
families. This being the sort of thing that Israel’s merchants of death look
for, they offered to sell American-made helicopter gunships to Nigeria so that
the country can hunt the poor people (most of whom turned out to be Muslims)
and kill them. That’s what prompted the Boko Haram and Fulani violent movements
to take roots in Nigeria.
Needless to remind the readers that Israel
receives about 4 billion dollars-worth of the newest weapons from America every
year. It decommissions this much-worth of the older equipment, sells it to
buyers in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and uses the money to carry out its
genocidal policy in Palestine. And this is how America’s hand drips with the
blood, not only of the Palestinians, but also that of the Africans, Asians and
Latin Americans. Like it or not, Israel carries the bloody hand of America
everywhere it goes to sell surplus American instruments of death.
Clifford May’s article goes on like that for
a while longer, always assuming that the image of Bernard-Henri Levy is being
further polished when in reality, it is being further stained.
This happens because the article brings into
focus how Levy’s activities leverage the might of America and the other Western
nations, doing damage to the emerging world by exploiting it more subtly than
when the colonial powers were doing the dirty work for themselves, and doing it
openly.
It must be said again that the more things change the more they stay the same except that they become more devious. And this happens to be the chief reason why emerging nations, containing billions of people, see in China a breath of fresh air they can count on to develop without being eaten alive like the bad old days.