The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war

Evidence

Most disappointingly of all perhaps for the F.L.N. was the fact that, after the initial shock of All Saints had subsided, the pieds noirs resumed their way of life as if absolutely nothing had happened; if anything, they had averted their gaze still further from the root causes of Algerian discontent. … In metropolitan France, Mendès-France had not been deflected from carrying out his North American tour in mid-November, and it was still not yet considered necessary to decree a state of emergency in Algeria. Deadlock threatened. Says Pierre Leulliette: “Fear engenders cruelty; cruelty, fear, insanity and then paralysis. In the centre of Dante’s circle, the damned remained motionless.” This vicious circle now began in Algeria. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Almost alone among the grands colons to remain in Algeria after independence, Jacques Chevallier, the liberal ex-mayor of Algiers, became vice-president of the Algiers Chamber of Commerce from 1963 to 1966, greatly respected by the Algerians and a token that, had they been genuinely prepared to co-operate and share responsibility with the Muslims, some future for the Europeans could have existed. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1672 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In Algeria, where European settlers are numerous and where the territorial militia lost no time in enrolling the postman, the nurse and the grocer in the repressive system, the men who directed the struggle faced an absolutely new situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1672; Franco-Algerian coexistence was destroyed by accumulated missed chances — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1611; The Algerian Communist Party sided with French settlers rather than Muslim nationalists (+8 more)

Related

• Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria (similarity 0.85)
• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock (similarity 0.84)
• A settler’s street riot in Algiers compelled France’s government to abandon negotiations (similarity 0.84)
• A liberal colonia could have kept Europeans in independent Algeria. (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.83)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.83)
• The Algerian Communist Party sided with French settlers rather than Muslim nationalists (similarity 0.83)
• Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.81)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.81)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.81)
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. (similarity 0.81)
• French metropolitan public had grown apathetic about Algeria by late 1961. (similarity 0.81)
• Every French reform effort in Algeria was blocked by pied noir pressure groups (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock #complicates (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332
• Cooperation between settlers and Muslims could have preserved a European future in Algeria #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1672
• Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187
• The Algerian Communist Party sided with French settlers rather than Muslim nationalists #corroborates (0.55)
• Franco-Algerian coexistence was destroyed by accumulated missed chances #corroborates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1611
• European settlers’ aggressive demands for minority rights dissolved when assured of belonging #qualifies (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 563
• France’s refusal to restrain settler fascism drove liberal Algerians to the F.L.N. #corroborates (0.50)
• France could not contemplate Algerian withdrawal because Algeria was legally part of France #complicates (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1649
• Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger #qualifies (0.40)
• Algerians voted overwhelmingly for independence while European settlers abstained #corroborates (0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1615