The foreign affairs ministers of fifteen EU Member States (Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden), as well as Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom, and the High Representative of the Union called, on Thursday 21 August, for the “immediate reversal in the strongest terms” of Israel’s plans to build 3,000 housing units in settlements in the E1 area east...