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.

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

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.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

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.

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