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Mon 08 Aug 2009Sweden must condemn 'blood libel' - Netanyahu
ISRAELI PRIME minister Binyamin Netanyahu has demanded that the Swedish government condemn an article in a Stockholm newspaper which claimed that Israeli troops had killed Palestinians in order to sell their organs.
The ongoing refusal to do so by Swedish officials, stressing the paramount importance of freedom of the press, has put a question mark over next month’s scheduled visit to Israel by Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt.
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