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Macron undermined Israel and defied the US, then asked for a Lebanon role - comment

France failed at the one job that it had: to earn the trust of the party it claims to want to help reach peace. And now it can't get the role of brokering peace talks.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN
French President Emmanuel Macron visits Lebanon, September 2020
People react at the scene where a rocket, fired from Lebanon, damaged a residential apartment building when it landed in Israel, amid hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in Kiryat Yam, northern Israel, October 8, 2024.

IDF: As northern security improves, need to discuss practicalities of residents returning to border

For much of the war, 60,000 displaced residents of the North slammed the government for forgetting them while the country's attention focused on Gaza, the South, and the hostages.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna attends a joint news conference with Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov in Baku, Azerbaijan April 27, 2023.

French FM: Lebanon must work to prevent war with Israel

Israel and Hezbollah fighters have been trading fire along the frontier on an almost daily basis since the war in Gaza erupted more than two months ago, in the worst hostilities since 2006.

|ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
French President Emmanuel Macron and Lebanon's President Michel Aoun wear face masks as they arrives to attend a meeting at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon September 1, 2020.

Has Hezbollah defeated France in Lebanon?

France had wanted to reduce the sectarian nature of the government, but Hezbollah has increased its clout in recent years.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

French Ambassador dismisses rumors of resolution against Hezbollah

Ambassador Paoli: 'There is no French conspiracy against any political party.'

FEBRUARY 7, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva underway

Anti-terror patrol soldiers stabbed outside French Jewish center

Three French soldiers were lightly injured and police detained the attacker.

FEBRUARY 3, 2015ByREUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF
Police are seen outside a Jewish Community center, where two French soldiers were attacked and wounded in a knife attack in Nice February 3, 2015.

United Nations Security Council condemns death of Spanish peacekeeper by Israeli fire

Earlier in the day Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman called his Spanish counterpart to express his condolences.

JANUARY 29, 2015ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Smoke rises from shells fired from Israel over al-Wazzani area in southern Lebanon

French aliya: Romance vs reality

In the face of these threats, French Jews are following the classic response patterns.

JANUARY 21, 2015ByPINCHAS LANDAU
A woman holds a sign reading "I am Charlie" during a tribute for the victims of the Paris shootings, in Ottawa.

Hezbollah chief Nasrallah says terrorists damage Islam more than cartoons

Hassan Nasrallah said what he called "takfiri terrorist groups" had insulted Islam more than "even those who have attacked the messenger of God."

JANUARY 9, 2015ByREUTERS
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah