Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom for comments she made this week in which she called for an investigation to determine if Israel was guilty of extrajudicial killings of Palestinians during the current wave of terrorism.
In his first public reaction to the controversial remarks, Netanyahu said they were, "outrageous, immoral, unjust, wrong and stupid."
"People are defending themselves against assailants wielding knives who are about to stab them to death and they shoot the people - and that's extrajudicial killings?" Netanyahu said.
During a Swedish parliamentary debate Wallstrom said, “It is vital that there is a thorough, credible investigation into these deaths in order to clarify and bring about possible accountability.”
Netanyahu said he didn't know what the motivation was for the foreign minister's remarks, stopping just short of repeating Energy and Water Minister Steinitz's comment that Wallstrom's remarks smacked of anti-Semitism.
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Let's examine the Israelis PM's claims about the Swedish FM's comments:
*outrageous? No more so than the complaints about Chicago cops who are killing civilians in the US.
*immoral? Apparently not by the morality of Sweden, which willingly rescued many victims of the Nazi Holocaust.
*unjust? Not if they are based on what is morally right and fair, which they appear to be.
*wrong? That can only be determined by an unbiased investigation, which the accused (Israel) does not appear to be capable of conducting.
*stupid? Not by the standards of many of the world's people.
By the way, a claim of "anti-Semitism" is not a valid defense against the charge of murder.
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