Italy’s newly appointed Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, said:
I have to admit, if I look at the past, EU has taken on some occasions an unbalanced stance vis a vis Israel, even by making an unacceptable confusion between the legitimate political criticism of the Israeli gut and the sentiment of intolerance against Jewish people that can become anti-Semitism.
This is a remarkable admission. To those familiar with EU-Israel relations, this is not news, but I can’t remember the last time someone so prominent made such a frank statement.
