“You too?” Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy looked outside one sleepless night, like many others he had spent over the years. From the window of his beautiful apartment in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, the philosopher watched the last lights of the Elysée Palace go out. “I know he’s moving on to Madame’s Wings, so he’s trying to switch on another wing,” he said in his book Nuit, which will be published in French on January 8. blanche’ (‘Sleepless Night’). The “young monarch,” as the author calls the president, suffers from sleepless nights. Is he Superman or a tortured soul? Is it Russia-invaded Ukraine that is robbing President Macron of his respite? Is the Middle East on fire? Did the power slip from his hands? we never know. Macron is the only one who stays up late.
From the sleepless nights the president and the philosopher shared, communication took place via telegram, which probably had some influence. In one of these nightly messages, weeks after the October 7 attack on Israel, Levy urged Macron to form an anti-Hamas coalition based on the same model that targeted the Islamic State (IS). I suggested that. organization. On December 1st of the same year, the newspaper Libération revealed that he was behind the idea. It was a perplexing proposition. Equating Hamas, an Islamic nationalist movement, with the Islamic State group, a transnational jihadist network, caught the French diplomatic corps by surprise and turned into a painful diplomatic blunder. “One decides. One imagines a chat. A night visitor. Plans an ideological approach. But we are only insomniac brothers, and after a certain time there is nothing to do except talk on Telegram. There is no,” Levy wrote.
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