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.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

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.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.