Yeah, because the Algerians just famously sat around and waited for the French to leave, and even if they fought, not like they were in any actual danger.
Yeah the French totally left all on their own, and this love of the freedom fighters is comparable to American conservatives.
That thread is a gold crap mine of dunk tank posts.
Unironically what a lot of French people think from me arguing with them, “we just left and gave you independence” like imagine taking an L so hard you made yourself believe you actually gave away a valuable piece of land just because they were kind, in reality they fear another Algeria, people who were colonized for a 132 years but still haven’t given up their identity, people who lost 1.5 million people and haven’t given up their fight for freedom.
A million or so pieds noirs remigrating in France really did a number to the french consciousness (which wasn’t in a great shape prior to the war)
Shit, my grandfather on my mother’s side died in an ambush in Algeria, my grandfather on my father’s side was a truck driver and used to see soldier’s coffins when he was loading merchandise in Marseille
Algerian independence was hard fought and hard won
And by God the Palestinians will bring that upon their colonizers too.