Barely two months into its six-month presidency of the European Union, Sweden's government is entangled in a scrap with Israel. Because it pitches Swedes' cherished free-speech principles against Middle Eastern sensibilities, it is loaded with a wearying sense of deja vu-and a potential to escalate.rnIt started on August 17th when Afton-bladet, a Swedish tabloid, published an incendiary article claiming that Israeli soldiers had harvested the organs of some Palestinians whom they had shot. Within hours, Israel's deputy foreign minister had denounced the article for racism and demanded that it be condemned by the Swedish government.
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