Gideon Sa’ar seems to be playing the right mood music. Relations between the European Union and Israel have improved markedly since he became foreign minister.
Sa’ar cannot claim total credit for replacing discord with harmony. Another factor is the changing of the guard in Brussels.
The EU has a new foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas. Sa’ar was in contact with her as she prepared to take up her post and announced that she had agreed to “deepen the political dialogue.”
Through that late November announcement all the bad vibes of recent weeks and months were magicked away. The fact that Josep Borrell, Kallas’ predecessor, had recommended a suspension of “political dialogue” with Israel was pushed down a memory hole. ….more