Swedish opposition head slams settlements as unacceptable

Sweden’s opposition leader has joined the widening international condemnation of Israeli settlements buiding in the West Bank as completely unacceptable.

In an interview with the Expressen newspaper, Anna Kinberg Batra was asked what she would tell the Isaeli authorities in an scheduled visit on Monday morning.

She replied: “One must be able to meet in order to deliver criticism. Obviously there is criticism to deliver against the settlements, which are of course unacceptable. But if we want a better exchange and want to influence each other in the right direction and use the positive exchange we have, then one must begin to talk with one another.”

The Netanyahu-Kinberg Batra meeting went ahead as scheduled, but Netanyahu’s office had not issued statements or released photographs of it, as of Monday evening, according to Times of Israel.