Quarterly Updates for (16 May 2018 — 15 Aug 2018)
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With the EU scrambling to preserve the JCPOA and pushing for Israel to cancel its plans to evacuate and demolish the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar (see “Iran” and “Demolitions and Displacement” above), European-Israeli relations deteriorated this quarter. After EU foreign policy chief Mogherini cancelled (6/8) her planned appearance at a conference in Jerusalem on 6/10, citing undisclosed “agenda reasons,” the Israeli press reported that the real reason was that PM Netanyahu had refused her request for a meeting. “She was invited by the American Jewish Committee for their conference, and not by Israel,” one senior Israeli diplomatic official explained (6/8). “Her positions are very hostile to Israel.”