Israel's Foreign Ministry issued a strong response Friday to Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström who criticized Israel before the Swedish parliament for what she claimed were extrajudicial executions of Palestinian attackers.
When asked by a Swedish parliamentarian why she refused to condemn Palestinian acts of violence against Israelis, she replied that while she did not condone terrorism and that Israel did have a right to self-defense, "at the same time the [Israeli] response doesn't need to be extrajudicial executions or disproportionate force."
In an interview with Swedish television network SVT2T , hours after the Paris attacks on November 13, Wallström said that "to counteract the radicalization we must go back to the situation such as the one in the Middle East of which not the least the Palestinians see that there is no future: we must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence," suggesting that the attacks were rooted in the frustration of Muslims in the Middle East.