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There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.
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In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.
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The sidaïques, by breathing the virus through all their pores, put into question the equilibrium of the nation... The sidaïque is contagious by his sweat, his saliva, his contact. It's a kind of leper.
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There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.
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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.
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What's surprising is that the people who fought against torture here are the communists.
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The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
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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.
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As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not saying that the gas chambers didn't exist. I couldn't see them myself.
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The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
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You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.
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There wasn't anti-Semitism in France.
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By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
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My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
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Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.
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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.
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I am not saying that gas chambers did not exist. I did not see them myself. I haven't studied the questions specially. But I believe it is a minor point in the history of the Second World War.
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The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
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France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
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I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.
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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.