There Was No Reason To Label Us

You Cannot Speak On Behalf Of A Nation When You Have No Mandate To Do So.

The Dreyfus Affair Is An Exceptional Case. It's True That Here And There You Can Find Some Dregs Of Anti-semitism, But The Situation Is The Same In Every Country. After All, You're Not Exactly A Nation Like All The Other Nations. You Are Unique, If Only Because You Are Such An Ancient People, And Because Of The Way You Are Spread All Over The World And Your Obvious Success In Many Fields. But, In All Honesty, Anti-semitism In France Has Always Remained On A Minimal Level, At The Verbal Level Only. It Never Went As Far As Pogroms.

There Is An Islamic Population In France, Most Of Which Comes From The North African Countries.

The Government Would Have Preferred Not To Take A Stand, But The Constant Presence Of The Israeli-arab Conflict On Our Television Screens Made It An Issue That Could No Longer Be Avoided.

My Father Was Killed By A German Mine, While I Lost Other Relatives In Allied Bombing Attacks. The Second World War Claimed Tens Of Millions Of Victims. For Some The Most Terrible Aspect Of It Was The Deportations, While For Others It Was The Leveling Bombings Or The Mass Deaths By Starvation And Cold.