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On Monday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden’s ambassador to Israel to protest Stockholm’s declaration to recognize the state of Palestine. Swedish Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser was asked to come in by Aviv Shir-On, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general for Europe – Shir-On had “protested and expressed Israel’s disappointment” after Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Loefven declared his intention …

The Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said that Benjamin Netanyahu has complained to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the investigation being conducted by the world body into the 50-day war is one-sided. After meeting with Ban in New York on Tuesday, Netanyahu said that the UN Human Rights Council “is not focusing its inquiry on Hamas, which used U.N. …

Latin American nations have vehemently denounced the Israeli aggression in Gaza, and several of them have taken actions to that effect, including recalling ambassadors and offering support to Palestine. Eco Morales, President of Bolivia and one of the far-left leaders from Latin America, put deemed Israel as a “terrorist” nation and removed its visa waiver program with Israel. Brazil’s President …