Emma Bonino, Italy’s new foreign minister, has been lobbying for Israel to be admitted into the European Union for more than a decade.
In 2001, Bonino and fellow members of the Radical Party launched a campaign in favor of Israel’s immediate membership of the bloc, which then incorporated 15 countries.
As the call was made during the second intifada, it could only be interpreted as a gesture of support for the murderous tactics used by the Israeli military against Palestinians, with the full blessing of Ariel Sharon’s government .... http://uruknet.info
