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Israel Raps Sweden Envoy after Minister's Remarks on Palestinian "Desperation"
(Times of Israel) The director general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, reprimanded the Swedish ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus Nesser on Monday after Sweden's foreign minister appeared to draw a connection between the Paris attacks and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Margot Wallstrom, Sweden's minister of foreign affairs, told Sweden's state television: "Once again we return to situations like that in the Middle East, especially (concerning) Palestinians who think: There is no future for us, we must accept a desperate situation or resort to violence." Gold said, "Any connection between Islamic State terror and the Palestinian issue is baseless and that [the Swedish minister's] comments may be interpreted as a justification of Palestinian terror."