What is France’s trick for military aid to Tel Aviv? – Mehr news agency RCO News Agency

Guest note, Amirhossein Moghimi: The official website of the French Senate published a text that included a written question from the government about the possibility of France participating in the provision of weapons or military equipment to Israel.

In this question, it was stated that reports of military movements and sending equipment to Israel have been published, and it is necessary for the government to clarify whether such actions are compatible with France’s foreign policy and human rights obligations.

In response to this question, the French government has emphasized:

“There have been no direct operations involving the delivery of military equipment or parts to Israel. “France acts within the framework of international regulations and in compliance with legitimate defense requirements.”

Further, the government noted that France’s military cooperation with others, including Israel, is carried out in areas such as information exchange, counter-terrorism and regional security issues, but no new arms transfers from Paris to Tel Aviv are underway.

This answer is published while in recent months, the public opinion and a part of the leftist representatives of France have called for a complete stop of any military cooperation with Israel due to the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Despite the official denial of Paris about “directly sending weapons to Israel”, the fact is that the military and security relations between the two sides have not only not stopped in recent years, but have been strengthened in indirect and contractual formats.

As a permanent member of the Security Council and the main player of NATO, France cannot adopt a position completely independent of Washington in the Middle East crisis.

From the French diplomatic point of view, Israel’s security is part of the “Western order” in the region.

Therefore, even if Paris seems to have more balanced positions towards Palestine, in practice it indirectly supports any action that leads to the strengthening of the position of the Zionist regime against the resistance groups.

This logic has made France, along with America and England, to continue intelligence and logistics cooperation with Tel Aviv in the Gaza case.

Also, France is one of the largest arms exporters in the world. Companies like Dassault Aviation, Thales and MBDA have long-term contracts with the Israeli side — not just to sell weapons, but to share technology and co-produce military components.

For this reason, even if the government officially denies “arms transfer”, many cooperations are carried out through private industrial contracts or trilateral cooperation with the United States.

In the international arena, France is trying to introduce itself as a mediator of peace and the voice of balance in the Middle East; While at the operational level, its security policy remains aligned with its Western allies.

This duality has caused Paris to find a contradictory and sometimes hypocritical image in the eyes of the domestic public opinion and Arab countries.

Emmanuel Macron’s recent statements about the “possibility of peace for Israel and Gaza” can be understood precisely in this context: an attempt to cover the reality of security cooperation with Tel Aviv under the guise of peace discourse.