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« For , nothing is more precious than . It is its “core business,” as the adverts would say. And equality is essential for general interchangeability. Just look at how difficult, almost impossible, it is to trade between cultures, or should we say civilisations, that do not place the same value on human life. In this respect, I have never been able to understand how the Palestinians could agree to exchange one hundred, two hundred or five hundred of them for a single Israeli, and sometimes a dead Israeli. Not only is it completely undemocratic, but above all it runs completely counter to equality between the …, between the … — here all sorts of impossible words, you can fill in the blanks for me. This type of exchange strikes me as horribly humiliating for the . It seems to me that they should insist, when they set an abducted Israeli free, that a single detained Palestinian be released in exchange.
« Dogmatic , by its very existence, is just as favourable to the replacist doctrine. I’ve long been pleased to note that on this point my analyses, if I may call them that, are perfectly in line with those of your chairman, Gilles-William Goldnadel. He and I are in perfect agreement, he, most recently, in his Réflexions sur la question blanche, and I in a short essay entitled “Adolf Hi**er’s second career” (“La deuxième carrière d’Adolf Hi**er”), a text included in a collection with a title borrowed from Alain Finkielkraut, Le Communisme du XXIe siècle — by which Finkielkraut and I mean dogmatic anti-racism, anti-racism overflowing from its normal river-bed, morality, to be converted into power, and very quickly into abusive, repressive, oppressive power — perfectly in agreement, as I was saying, Mr Goldnadel and I, I think, in seeing in the disaster of disasters, the genocide, the death camps, the fundamental basis of the impossibility of defending anything remotely associated with Hi**er and the Final Solution, and of course compromised by them, irremissibly so: I mean the State, I mean borders, I mean citizenship insofar as it necessarily implies something that is not it, a non-citizenship, a foreignness; and I mean a fortiori the homeland, cultural heritage, national traditions — let’s not even talk about race, sitting as it is at the phosphorescent summit of the unspeakable.
Renaud Camus, “The Replaceable Man”, Lecture before the France-Israel Society, in The Great Replacement, March 8th, 2012