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green_flash OP t1_j6kg1hk wrote

Reply to comment by JP76 in Local Muslim community helps shut down burning of Torah scroll in Sweden by green_flash

> That false information was further used to accuse Sweden of bias and hypocrisy.

Yeah, that was quite irresponsible from Israeli authorities. I understand why they wanted it to be perceived as them having more clout with the Swedish government than Erdogan and also they wanted to get all the praise for preventing that event from taking place, but those statements from Israeli Foreign Ministry and ambassador painted a completely wrong picture of how it went down.

The only way the Swedish government was involved is that the Swedish Prime Minister apparently got into direct contact with the organizer and asked him to rethink his plan, but it ultimately was the organizer's own decision.

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Ijustwanna_read t1_j6kkrfo wrote

Just to add, the translation says "call", not as in phone call, but as in call to action. Most likely referring to a press conference from the day (or so) before were the the P.M asked to be respectful. Jpost also got it wrong.

This would go against the Ministerial rule - the P.M would basically be gone from his post by the time the phone call ended.

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