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(Bloomberg) — Israel’s foreign minister said he was cutting off all contact with the European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, citing her “blatant unfairness” and underscoring the Jewish state’s growing isolation from many of its closest allies.
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Gideon Sa’ar said Kallas recently compared Israel to South Africa’s apartheid regime.
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“No denial, clarification or response has been issued by her regarding this severe statement,” he said on X on Thursday. “I have no choice but to sever all contact with Ms. Kallas until she retracts the blood libel she directed at the world’s only Jewish state.”
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Addressing Sa’ar on X following his comments, Kallas said that she valued “our dialogue and engagement” and was “open to continue in that spirit, respectfully and constructively.” She said that the EU’s position was that the two-state solution “remains the only viable” path to peace in the Middle East, adding that illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank “make it increasingly difficult to get to that goal.”
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The EU is Israel’s biggest trading partner.
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Ties with the EU were deeply strained by Israel’s war in Gaza, which followed Hamas’s attack on the Jewish state on Oct. 7, 2023, and linked conflicts in Lebanon. In addition, most EU leaders were against this year’s US-Israeli war on Iran, which caused energy prices to soar and hurt the global economy.
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Sa’ar’s comments come in the wake of the US signing an interim peace deal with Iran that many Israelis are highly critical of, believing it concedes too much to the Islamic Republic.
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US President Donald Trump has clashed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the past two weeks, swearing at him and saying Israel’s military operations in Lebanon — where it’s fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah militants — were hurting the chances of deal with Tehran.
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(Updated with response from Kaja Kallas)
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