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Israel Kills Palestinians and Western Liberals Shrug. Their Humanitarianism Is a Sham.
“IF THE CONCEPT of intervention is driven by universal human rights, why is it — from the people who identify themselves as liberal interventionists — why do we never hear a peep, a word, about intervening to protect the Palestinians?”
- Mehdi Hasan
- The Intercept
That was the question I put to the French philosopher, author, and champion of liberal (or humanitarian) interventionism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, on my Al Jazeera English interview show “Head to Head” in 2013.
The usually silver-tongued Levy struggled to answer the question.
The situation in Palestine is “not the same” as in Syria and “you have not all the good on one side and all the bad on the…