There Was No Reason To Label Us

In France, At Least The German Occupation Was Not Especially Inhumane, Even If There Were A Number Of Excesses - Inevitable In A Country Of 550,000 Square Kilometres... If The Germans Had Carried Out Mass Executions Across The Country As The Received Wisdom Would Have It, Then There Wouldn't Have Been Any Need For Concentration Camps For Political Deportees.

I Have Said, And I Repeat, At The Risk Of Appearing Sacrilegious, That The Gas Chambers Are A Detail Of The History Of The Second World War.

I Have No Idea What `classic Anti-semitism' Is. I'm Not Familiar With This Term. I Don't Know Where It Comes From And What Connection It Has To France And What Is Occurring Here. There Wasn't Anti-semitism In France. An Isolated Incident Can Always Happen. 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. 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.

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.

Millions Also Perished In The Chinese Camps, And There Have Been Terrible Genocides In Cambodia And Vietnam.