Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s outgoing Foreign Minister, took to X Sunday to claim France “opened the way” for the U.S. peace plan in Gaza, securing hostage releases and a ceasefire.
Jean-Noël Barrot © X
Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s outgoing Foreign Minister, took to X Sunday to claim France “opened the way” for the U.S. peace plan in Gaza, securing hostage releases and a ceasefire.
This is a bald-faced lie. Far from leading, France actively undermined President Trump’s 20-point blueprint, which has driven real progress: phased ceasefires, Israeli withdrawals, and imminent hostage releases.
Barrot’s revisionism is laughable. While Trump strong-armed Netanyahu and Qatar into alignment, France pushed a rival French-Saudi plan, sidelining Israel and the U.S. with a 142-nation coalition fixated on premature Palestinian statehood.
Barrot’s October 2 demand for Hamas’s “surrender” muddied delicate talks, and French lobbying delayed Arab buy-in, prolonging the crisis.
Le Monde and The New York Times exposed Paris’s ego-driven meddling, which U.S. officials, including Marco Rubio, barely concealed their frustration over.
This isn’t new for Barrot, whose tenure has been a masterclass in missteps – from Gaza evacuation scandals to alienating Israel.
With France crumbling under economic woes and riots, his X post is a desperate grab for relevance, cloaking domestic failure in fake diplomatic triumphs.
The hostages, still suffering, deserve better than Barrot’s spin. Trump’s deal, not France’s posturing, is delivering.
History won’t buy Barrot’s fairy tale.
Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz declared Monday that Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza for an indefinite period, in a pointed statement that makes no reference to the US-Iran framework agreement announced the same day.
Authorities in southern Lebanon warned people displaced by three months of war between Israel and Hezbollah against rushing home on Monday despite a U.S.-Iran deal to end the wider conflict, as Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the south.
Let us call it what it is. The framework agreement on Iran is not a peace deal. It is a capitulation dressed up in diplomatic language, and its most immediate victims are the two countries that have paid the highest price in blood and treasure to confront Iran's aggression: Israel and Lebanon.
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