France was too busy arming Israel 80 years ago

For the first two decades after independence, Israel’s primary foreign ally was France, which supplied almost all of its major weapons including planes, tanks and ships as well as building the nuclear plant from which it developed atomic weapons.

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/16/why-israel-allies-explainer

Maybe he’s doing it to displease someone…