For these reasons, the French extreme right is trying to take revenge on Algeria.

The historical reading presented by the French and Algerian-born historian Benjamin Stora regarding the French extreme right’s “obsession with Algeria” is the most objective and acceptable, given the presence of the strongman on the scene of Algerian-French relations, its links to the colonial past and its remarkable specialization in it.
Benjamin Stora says: “The birth of the French National Front in 1972 was inspired by two different events, the first being the “Vichy government” (installed by the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War) and the “Algerian war”, and here he refers to the liberation revolution (1954/1962).
The ideology of the French extreme right, politically represented by the former “National Front” party and the current “National Rally”, is based on the nostalgia (a dream) of a colonial empire based on discrimination and class, built in the form of a pyramid, with the French at the top and the other peoples at the bottom. Under control, the indigenous population of Algeria, and this is what a historian well versed in the history of the French colonization of Algeria calls “colonial apartheid”.
Historian Benjamin Stora’s description of far-right ideology came in a video recording for the French-language Turkish channel “TRT,” in which he reviewed the process of far-right thought in France, which over time became “a historical legacy that was soon gradually transformed into the internal fabric of society.” “French.”
This ideology, according to Stora, is based on what he called “the greatness of the disintegrating empire,” which is the lost dream absorbed and adopted by some French intellectuals and philosophers, who usually call it “the old time,” that is, the period when France was a vast empire whose borders extended on all sides from Tunisia, Mali and Mauritania.
During this “old time,” says historian Benjamin Stora, “Algeria was not just a colony. It was something great. French Algeria is five times the size of France. It was not an ordinary thing. It was part of France, and the symbols of the extreme right yearned for it, The time that symbolized the greatness of France, which was lost and betrayed.”
When the extreme right speaks of betrayal in the “tragedy of French Algeria”, they mean only one person, namely General Charles de Gaulle, who, in their opinion, remains the one who neglected this dream by agreeing to sit at the negotiating table with representatives of the Algerian transitional government, But they refuse to accept that General de Gaulle, whom they brought to power in 1958 on the ruins of the Fourth French Republic, which had fallen under the blows of the liberal revolution, had tried every solution, starting with excessive violence. .. He is convinced that there is no solution outside the circle of negotiations.
Based on this extremist philosophy, Le Pen’s party deceives its supporters and all French people that its political program can “restore the lost French greatness and not tolerate those who caused this loss of France’s greatness. As for those responsible, they are the Algerians who rejected French colonialism and expelled it, and then they must be treated as immigrants, not like other European immigrants, the Spanish, Italians and Portuguese, and not even like their Tunisian and Moroccan neighbors, because the Algerians are at the heart of this problem, unlike Tunisia and Morocco, which were not part of French territory, but were merely protectorates. As for “Algeria was part of the overseas territories,” as the French administration called it.