By Andrew L. Jaffee

I’d thought I’d heard it all before, but France’s President Jacques Chirac said today that “the deployment of 15,000 peacekeepers there [in Lebanon] would be excessive.” Anything to keep France from doing what it should do, not what it says it should do. More French hypocrisy. Here’s my translation of Chirac’s words, from the French language (mais naturellement!): “We don’t enforce resolutions; we just write them.”

France co-authored UN Resolution 1559, which “Call[ed] for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias.” It also sponsored Resolution 1701, which calls for the “removal from southern Lebanon of Hezbollah as an armed force.” France initially offered 200 troops for a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.

15,000 troops is excessive? Lebanon is a Wild West ruled by Hezbollah terrorists who respect nothing but the language of the gun.

So… call for disarming Hezbollah, condemn Israel for trying to disarm Hezbollah, but when push comes to shove, let Israel disarm Hezbollah. Make sense? But Chirac also called for the rearming of Hezbollah:

Chirac also criticised Israel’s continued blockade of Lebanon, saying it was “extremely prejudicial to the economy and life in Lebanon. And, in my view, quite unjustified.”

French life is sacred, but to hell with those pesky Jews.

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Related: Israel, Europe, Political Correctness, Lebanon, Terrorist Groups, United Nations (UN)

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