WHY MUST FRANCE JEOPARDIZE TRUMP'S PAX ARABIA. HOW DO WE STOP IT?

MACRON AND FRANCE NEED TO BE SENT PACKING FROM ARABIA BEFORE THEY REALLY DO DAMAGE

"Israel decided to block a visit planned for Sunday by the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Turkey to the Palestinian Authority, a senior Israeli official said in a briefing with reporters.

What they're saying: A senior Israeli official told reporters that the Palestinian Authority intended to host "a defiant meeting" of Arab foreign ministers for a discussion aimed at promoting the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Between the lines: In mid-June, Saudi Arabia and France will hold an international conference at UN headquarters in New York in support of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• France and Saudi Arabia have been pushing countries to recognize a Palestinian state in conjunction with the conference." Axios, May 30, 2025. Barak Ravid

The Trump administration has been working very hard for months to cobble together this organizatio of Arab states, along with Israel, to form a partnership under the Abraham Accords. President Trump made it clear in his speeches in Arabia that he would prefer the Arabs make their own agreements and solve their own problems with more of a "view from afar" from the United States.

Unfortunately, the French, ever the turd in the punchbowl, are working overtime to scuttle the operation. This reflect a patternt hat Macron has followed which is, not to lead but to be present and sow distrust and dischord wherever possible. So is it no in Arabia and so has it been in Europe with NATO and currently, aslo, with Ukraine.

I would say it is about time someone corraled up the Gauls before they cause irreparable damage on the world stage.

French Interventionism in the Arab World and Its Threat to U.S.-Led Peace Architecture

Executive Summary

The recent reassertion of French diplomatic activism in the Middle East, particularly through initiatives aimed at undermining the Abraham Accords and promoting unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, represents a growing challenge to U.S. foreign policy. France, under President Emmanuel Macron, has revived its post-colonial interventionist instincts, cloaking them in moral language but acting from a position of declining power and strategic opportunism. This white paper explores how France’s renewed meddling in Arab affairs, especially in pre-Abraham Accords contexts, threatens regional stability, emboldens anti-Israel factions, and risks undoing the historic progress initiated under President Trump’s foreign policy vision.

I. Introduction: The U.S. Vision vs. The French Agenda

• The Trump Doctrine emphasized Arab self-determination, regional autonomy, and the decoupling of Palestinian demands from broader normalization.

• France's reentry into Middle Eastern diplomacy is not based on support for peace, but a desire to reinsert itself as a global moral authority and to salvage its waning geopolitical clout.

• These competing paradigms are fundamentally incompatible.

  
  

II. The Structural Weakness of France as a Diplomatic Actor

1. Military Retreat and Strategic Collapse:

   • France has been expelled or sidelined from much of Francophone Africa (Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso), where its military operations have been replaced by domestic hostility.

   • Macron's military is overstretched and under-resourced; its strategic reach is aspirational, not operational.

2. Economic Fragility:

   • France’s economy is stagnating, with chronic unemployment, deindustrialization, and fiscal constraints exacerbated by EU regulations.

   • It cannot offer Arab states the investment, energy cooperation, or security architecture that the U.S. provides.

     
     

3. Domestic Political Instability:

   • Macron governs amid rising civil unrest, populist insurgency, and deepening distrust of elites.

   • France's foreign policy increasingly serves as a diversion from internal failure.

     
     

III. French Anti-Semitism and Its Exportation

• France is home to Europe’s largest Jewish population, yet experiences the highest number of anti-Semitic attacks on the continent.

• Macron's government has been slow to combat anti-Semitic violence and rhetoric, often capitulating to Islamist and far-left political pressures.

• French foreign policy disproportionately favors Palestinian claims while vilifying Israeli sovereignty, exporting anti-Semitic tropes under the guise of "human rights diplomacy."

  
  

IV. The Strategic Harm to U.S. Objectives

1. Undermining the Abraham Accords:

   
   

   • France seeks to re-insert the Palestinian Authority as a gatekeeper, reversing Trump’s strategy of sidestepping intransigent actors.

   • French-led conferences and symbolic recognitions threaten to derail Gulf-Israel normalization by politicizing Arab diplomacy.

     
     

2. Disrupting Arab Autonomy:

   • U.S. policy under Trump respected Arab sovereignty; Macron seeks to micromanage it through multilateralism and backdoor European pressure.

   • Arab leaders under Macron face renewed domestic and regional instability from inflamed public opinion and ideological retrenchment.

     
     

3. Empowering Adversarial Narratives:

   • France’s diplomatic theatrics provide cover for anti-American and anti-Israel actors in the UN, the EU, and global NGOs.

   • They encourage lawfare tactics, BDS-style delegitimization, and anti-normalization rhetoric that weakens Western cohesion.

     
     

V. Recommendations: The U.S. Path Forward

1. Reassert Diplomatic Leadership:

   • Launch a second-phase Abraham Accords initiative explicitly excluding European mediation.

   • Engage Arab capitals with high-level delegations to re-anchor the normalization framework in regional hands.

     
     

2. Leverage Economic and Defense Partnerships:

   • Condition select defense contracts and strategic partnerships on support for the U.S. vision, not France's.

   • Discourage Gulf investment in French infrastructure and redirect energy deals toward U.S.-aligned projects.

     
     

3. Expose and Counter French Influence Operations:

   • Investigate French-funded NGOs operating in Arab regions and at the UN.

   • Publicize France’s double standards on anti-Semitism and its failures in Africa.

     
     

4. Strengthen Israel-Arab Coalitions:

   • Facilitate quiet trilateral or multilateral talks between Israel and Gulf states to insulate normalization from European sabotage.

   • Provide diplomatic backing and security guarantees to Arab nations resisting Macron-style interference.

Conclusion

France under Macron is not a neutral peacemaker but a failing power desperate to reassert relevance by destabilizing a process it was never part of. The U.S. must make clear to its Arab partners: there are two paths—the Macron path of meddling, moralizing, and eventual decline, or the American path of mutual respect, regional stability, and shared prosperity. The time to draw the line is now

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