Israeli PM accuses Sweden of hypocrisy over Israeli response to suicide

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday charged Sweden with a double standard after the Swedish foreign minister last week accused Israel of carrying out “extrajudicial executions” of Palestinian attackers, but made no such complaint against the French and US authorities in their bringing down of the terrorists who carried out the attacks in San Bernardino and Paris.

“There isn’t one moral standard for Israel and one for the rest of the world,” Netanyahu, quoted by the Times of Israel, told a meeting of his Likud parliamentary faction. “We will continue to fight against terrorism, and hypocrisy.”

The prime minister did, however, say he was “happy to see [Margot Wallstrom] admit on Swedish TV that her remarks were misunderstood, and that she had no evidence to back up her claims.”

Responding furiously to Wallstrom’s reported comments, Netanyahu warned his Swedish counterpart Stefan Löfven in a phone call Sunday against applying double standards to terror attacks in Israel and other countries.

On Friday, Wallstrom told the Swedish parliament that Israel was conducting extrajudicial executions of Palestinian stabbers, according to a report in Haaretz.

Sources: MENA