As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. |
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. |
In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law. |
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. |
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it is a victim of terrorist activity, but this activity is less visible than the military strikes. |
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. |
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. |
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. |
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. |
You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so. |
I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins. |
There wasn't anti-Semitism in France. |
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives. |
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply. |
There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries. |
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. |
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. |
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists. |
When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. |
France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose. |