If news headlines are a reliable gauge, relations between Israel and the European Union are worse than ever.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s chief diplomat, is now a hate figure for the Tel Aviv government. Israel Katz, the foreign minister, recently branded Borrell an anti-Semite – a baseless accusation – for observing that an attack on a Gaza school violated international law.
The headlines do not tell the complete story.
Borrell has actually been accommodating toward Israel for most of his five-year term (which ends in November). He effectively gave the green light to the wholesale destruction of Gaza as it got underway in October 2023 by depicting Israel’s massive state violence as defensive.
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