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January 18, 2016

The Swedish Foreign Minister’s Condemnations of Israel Are Legally Ignorant and Morally Obtuse

Israelis and Palestinians “were killed in connection with knife attacks”?

In the most recent of many anti-Israel declarations, the Swedish foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, publicly accused the Jewish state of violating international law by carrying out “extrajudicial executions”; her reference was to the shooting by security forces of terrorists in the midst of carrying out lethal attacks. Jerusalem responded by declaring Wallstrom unwelcome in the country. Noah Feldman writes:

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