(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Amb. Freddy Eytan - To justify France's participation in the April 14 attack on chemical weapons installations in Syria, French President Emmanuel Macron released an official intelligence report that provides reasons for the attack. The report reveals that Assad's regime did not supply details of all the chemical reserves under its authority as required by the 2013 Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons. The report stressed that there is no shadow of a doubt that on April 7, the Assad regime used chemical weapons in eastern Ghouta against the local civilian population. In the attack on Syria, France fired 12 cruise missiles, participated in all of the operative planning, and coordinated its political positions with the U.S. and UK at the Security Council. The writer, a former Foreign Ministry senior advisor who was Israel's first Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, heads the Israel-Europe Project at the Jerusalem Center.
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