France requests emergency UN meeting amid Israeli advance in Lebanon
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20260531-france-requests-emergency-un-meeting-amid-israeli-advance-in-lebanon
France requests emergency UN meeting amid Israeli advance in Lebanon
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international/20260531-france-requests-emergency-un-meeting-amid-israeli-advance-in-lebanon
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Lebanon has its own UN envoys. Makes you wonder why they aren’t calling for such a meeting. Oh, right, they also want Hezbollah gone.
So… the usa will veto whatever comes out of this then.
Such a good workable system that wasn’t a product of its time. /S
France should worry more about how Lebanon was basically annexed by Iranian proxy and it takes israel bombing the **** out of them to kick them out
Good luck with the whole hezbollah thing
Shouldn’t France be more worried about Hezbollah inside Lebanon? I’m sick of all this status quo nonsense and words like “escalation.” Just let this play out. Let it reach its natural conclusion. It’d be refreshing to hear that blunt honesty from politicians.
Like Israel would gaf about anything the UN would say, UNIFIL were worse than useless for 20 years, if anything they were Hezbollah enablers
TBH, France has been blundering in the Levant post-independence.
They lost Syria forever(although in 2012, Hollande wanted to “restore French influence:’ by bombing Assad to bits at the time) and now their influence in Lebanon is diminishing.
Christians were the main supporters of French influence, today, most Lebanese Christians live outside of Lebanon, not inside it.
They are deluded if they think a Lebanon where Hezbollah dominates will be friendly to French interests.
France lost the plot during the Lebanese civil war and its influence has been declining ever since.
The Americans are the only true Western actors in Lebanon today.
If France cares so much about Lebanon they should help get rid of Hezbollah. Or they could call a UN meeting to support Israel when they’re attacked by Hezbollah. Quite telling they did neither of those things.
The huge majority of people bringing harmed by these attacks by Israel are innocent Lebanese. How can people be so cold and indifferent to their pain and suffering? What they are going through is heartbreaking, show them some compassion and empathy!
France isn’t the world savior. Why are they barking so much?
“I have requested an emergency meeting of the [United Nations Security Council](https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en) because, **while we recognise Israel’s right, like that of all countries, to self-defence… nothing can justify the continuation of Israeli military operations in Lebanon** and its ever-deeper occupation of Lebanese territory,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told BFMTV channel on Sunday.
The highlighted part contradicts itself.
Hezbollah specifically said that they attacked Shlomi and Nahariya.
What they all going to sit around polishing each others balls and then say some stuff that doesn’t do anything then go home
😂😂😂
Reminder: France inserted itself into the Lebanon ceasefire discussions, and did nothing since. They did not send soldiers, did not help the Lebanese government stop Hezbollah from shelling Israel, did absolutely nothing. Now they want the UN – a body that has useless “peace keepers” in Lebanon for decades – to do something? How do you say GFY in French?
Hezbollah attacks on Israel from Lebanon have killed less than 50 people.
Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed thousands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah%E2%80%93Israel_conflict_(2023%E2%80%93present)#Casualties_and_damage
Seems like a lot of the commenters here value some lives a lot more than others.
The IDF is a terrorist organization
The crusades for the holy land will never stop. History carries powerful momentum
Israel is a cancer. All funding and weapons for Israel need to be stopped, immediately.
France could just deploy the Foreign Legion for “peacekeeping” in southern Lebanon, that’d be more effective than some UN resolution that the US would just veto.
Macron is an impotent coward that on one hand doesn’t dare fix Lebanon and on the other is trying to stop those who do.
Let France send troops to fight Hizbollah then.
Just so you guys know: Israel has taken a sizable chunk of Lebanon with their recent advances. They’re not giving that back. It will be annexed.
Where was the emergency UN meeting when rockets and drones were fired into Israel during a “ceasefire”?
Perhaps they should start by talking to the UN and Lebanese forces that were supposed to prevent this in the first place to find out what happened?
Nah, of course not.