Jay Currie

The French U.N. delegation has joined with Arab nations and is now calling for a complete and immediate Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon as a condition of any cease-fire, the sources said.

In addition, the French have reportedly agreed with Arab demands that the Lebanese force be accompanied only by UNIFIL, with no international force to be deployed.
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And look at what they have caved to: more UNIFIL. That’s the fine group of UN observers whose net contribution since 2000 has been to provide cover for Hezbollah and report clever things like “Yup, there goes another missile.” combine that with no international force and the Israeli have no reason at all to agree. And as the Israelis are beginning to win and as the Americans are not going be terribly hasty trying to force the Israelis to quit, that means this war is going to go on for a while.

All of which means that we are not a step closer to a diplomatic solution.

Way to go France.