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 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.
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.
There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.
What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.
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.
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.