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Wallstroem, a former EU commissioner, has voiced criticism of Israel's killings of Palestinians, also of Saudi Arabia on women's rights (Photo: European Community, 2006)

Israeli media savage Swedish minister

Israeli media have highlighted fraud allegations against Sweden’s foreign minister, amid outrage over her criticism of Israeli killing of Palestinians.

The minister, Margot Wallstroem, is to face a criminal investigation into how she rented a Stockholm flat owned by Kommunal, a trade union, in what looks like queue-jumping in the city, which has a housing shortage.

The affair comes after she accused Israel in December of “extrajudicial” killing of Palestinians in the so-called ...

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Wallstroem, a former EU commissioner, has voiced criticism of Israel's killings of Palestinians, also of Saudi Arabia on women's rights (Photo: European Community, 2006)

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