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| The Senate of the United States has recently voted against the usage of “waterboarding” as a tactic of interrogation for prisoners suspected of terrorism (this treatment simulates a drowning). George Bush is refusing to consider it as a torture and might oppose his veto. What do you think about this debate? |
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| This vote makes honour to the Senate of the United States. It is the recognition of the dignity of a human being and the refusal of treatments that can break him to obtain information. |
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| The practice of waterboarding is often used during wartime, it is a torture that has to be strictly condemned and declared unlawful. |
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| George Bush is the man who brought war in Iraq; it will be good if he followed the vote of the Senate. Right has to prevail on force; this is a condition for justice. The respect of human rights is a basis of democracy and makes its value. |
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| Are you for Mac Cain, Clinton or Obama? |
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I am for Obama. He is not an old hand in politics, an apparatchik, as it is often the case in France. On the contrary he is a young man and new in the political landscape. His charisma is recognized and he was courageous to oppose to the Iraq war.
An African-American President will be a strong symbol for many Americans of so diverse origins. We can foresee in this country a decline of racism.
I believe that Obama is honest. His speeches reach humble people. However there are a lot of unknown matters and also a lot of contradictions… |
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| Nicolas Sarkosy has proposed that each French school child aged 10-11 year old learn the name and the story of a French Jewish child who died victim of the Holocaust. What do you think about it? |
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I have a lot of reservation and I feel uncomfortable by this initiative. It is interfering with childhood. Some children are having a difficult family story. Why should they carry a burden that we cannot carry ourselves? These young ones want to live and we put them in the realm of the death! |
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| The transmission of a memory should not be compulsory, the Holocaust cannot be forced into a child mind, and it cannot be imposed. It should be voluntary. There is a risk to make it emotional and to play with child sensitivity. |
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| It should be better not to focus on the Holocaust; otherwise we should speak also of the Palestinian, Kurd children and others. There is a teaching of the religious culture in which the Holocaust can have its own specific place. The young have the opportunity to study Anne Frank’s diary. |
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