Prime Minister Janez Janša said Slovenia 'removed' itself from a 'vicious circle' of losing credibility through what he described as disproportionate condemnations of Israel, accusing the EU of being hypocritical by remaining silent on violence and persecution elsewhere in the world

Slovenia undermined Western reaction to Israel's drastic carve-up of the West Bank, signalling that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a new EU inside-man.

Slovenia downgraded a joint EU statement condemning Israel's planned settlement construction in the West Bank's E1, leading to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas issuing a…