The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

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

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.

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.

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims.

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.