- STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Israel's
ambassador to Sweden destroyed an artwork depicting a Palestinian suicide
bomber in a Stockholm museum on Friday, Swedish radio reported on Saturday.
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- The art installation, entitled "Snow White and the
Madness of Truth," consisted of a rectangular basin filled with red
water on which floated a boat carrying a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat, who
killed herself and 19 others in an attack in the Israeli port city of Haifa
in October.
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- Ambassador Zvi Mazel was among the guests at the opening
of the Historical Museum's exhibition linked to an international anti-genocide
conference to be held in Stockholm from January 26 to 28.
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- Public service SR radio news said Mazel furiously ripped
out electrical wires attached to the art work and threw a spotlight in
the basin.
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- "This was not a piece of art," Mazel told SR.
"It was a monstrosity. An obscene distortion of reality."
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- Kristian Berg, the museum's director, said he realised
the installation may have been emotional for Mazel, but that destroying
art was unacceptable.
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- "If you don't like what you see, you can leave the
premises," he told SR.
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- Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.
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