“With barely any exception, all nineteenth-century French observers blamed ‘ignorance, indolence, or nomadism of the Arab “race” as a whole for the desertification, deforestation, and sterilization said to have ruined the former “granary of Rome.’673 In 1833, the Algerian Commission claimed that Arabs ploughed the land only superficially and abandoned land once the soil had been exhausted.674 The Ministry of War’s Tableaus cited already, agreed that the natives were responsible for all forms of mismanagement, wasting farming land, destroying scarce resources, deforesting, and being simply a nuisance.675 The same views would remain till 1962, and possibly today, 2024. Thus, when we get to the period after 1869-1871 (Volume 3), all narrative blamed the Algerian natives (and their Islamic faith) for their own mass extinction following the famine. They blamed most particularly the Arab/Muslim ancestors of Algerians for having usurped a former Christian land, and now Providence was punishing them for it.’676 None, and this to this day, saw or sees the hands of the French in that particular Algerian tragedy”