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Terroristisch diplomaat molesteert kunstwerk
JV - 19.01.2004 08:57

Met zijn gedachten waarschijnlijk nog ergens in Nablus, waar Israeli's dat allemaal maar mogen, vond Israelisch ambassadeur te Zweden, Mazel, het nodig om vandalisme uit te oefenen op een, nota bene, anti-terroristisch kunstwerk.


De ene (foute) helft van Israel vindt het prachtig, en de andere helft maakt zich zorgen.

Zie:

Website: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/384614.html
 

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Freedom of expression for all 
JV - 19.01.2004 09:09

"Politically motivated art, which transmits difficult and sometimes infuriating messages, is an inseparable part of the freedom of expression in democratic countries. If Israel's official envoy had not cut the power, the installation would have remained an unimportant episode."

"Sweden and Israel are both democracies, in which freedom of artistic expression is part of general freedom of individual expression".

Laat me niet lachen...

Website: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/384385.html
 
geleuter 
dav - 19.01.2004 12:23

"terroristisch diplomaat molesteert kunstwerk"

klinkt spectaculair, maar als je de moeite neemt om het stukje te lezen, blijkt het toch iets anders te zijn.

de ambassadeur heeft nl. enkel een stekker uit de muur getrokken, waardoor er een lampje uitging dat op een kunstwerk was gericht.

maarja, we hebben weer even lekker over Israël kunnen klagen.


Wel destructief... 
toevoegeraar - 19.01.2004 13:14

"Kristian Berg, the director of the museum, said of Mazel: 'He pulled out the plugs and threw one of the spotlights into the fountain which caused the entire installation to short-circuit and made it totally life-threatening.'"

Hoewel dit ook weer erg extreem gesteld is ('totally lifethreatening'), was het dus wel een destructieve daad. Alsjeblieft niet te simplistisch afgaan op 1 kort nieuwsbericht.

'Ambassador, you're spoiling our party'
bron: Mathada.Net
 http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=33048

 http://news.google.com/news?q=mazel
terroristische diplomaat 
G.M. de Wilde - 19.01.2004 16:42

Waaruit blijkt dat deze diplomaat een terrorist is? Omdat hij een, naar zijn mening, beledigend kunststuk heeft vernield.
Wat er echt gebeurde 
G.M. de Wilde - 19.01.2004 18:20



Communique: 19 January 2004

SWEDISH 'ART' OUTRAGE

On January 16, Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, attended a Stockholm art show linked to an international conference on preventing genocide. Mazel was shocked to encounter there a large exhibit glorifying the Palestinian terrorist who murdered 21 Israelis at Haifa's Maxim restaurant in October. Dubbed "Snow White and the Madness of Truth," the exhibit showed a tiny sailboat floating on a pool of red water. Attached to the boat was a smiling photo of the female bomber, Hanadi Jaradat. In protest, Mazel pulled the plug on three spotlights illuminating the exhibit, and knocked one light fixture into the red pool.


The exhibit and 'artists'
Media coverage largely downplayed the exhibit's clear glorification of genocide ― a grave irony, given the theme of the conference. Media reports instead suggested that the exhibit's meaning is open to broad interpretation, or that it merely laments all Mideast bloodshed.

Absent from nearly all reports was the poetic text accompanying the exhibit, submitted by the artists, which juxtaposes the 'beauty' of the red pool of blood upon the moral 'Snow-whiteness' of the terrorist:

For the June 12 deaths of her brother, and her cousin... seemingly innocent with universal non-violent character... Weeping bitterly, she added: 'If our nation cannot realize its dream and the goals of the victims, and live in freedom and dignity, then let the whole world be erased'... Run away, then, you poor child... and the red looked beautiful upon the white.

Here are three examples of the media's selective omission:

1) BBC wrote: "Its Israeli-born creator rejected the charge [of condoning violence], saying the work had a message of openness and conciliation... 'I'm absolutely opposed to suicide bombers', he added."

2) The New York Times News Service reports that one of the artists explained: "I wanted to show how incomprehensible it is that a mother of two ― who is a lawyer no less ― can do such a thing," she said, apparently confusing the Haifa bombing with an attack last week by another Palestinian woman.

3) The (UK) Observer spun the story 180-degrees, presenting Mazel ― not the Palestinian! ― as the killer: Peaceful Swedes were nearly killed when "an ambassador erupted in violent protest... [Mazel] ripped out electrical wires, grabbed a spotlight and hurled it into a fountain, causing it to short circuit and become a potential death trap."

Dutch television has actual film of Mazel, calmly walking around the exhibit, unplugging the spotlights, and pushing one of the (unplugged) lights into the water. Streaming video is available online ―the segment is about 11 minutes into the show (3/4 through). Here are the direct links: (Hat tip: LGF)


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BROADER CONTEXT
While one could debate if Mazel's act was appropriate, it is essential to recognize that this story runs far deeper than one art exhibit. Associated Press provides important background context to the story:

There has long been debate over where criticism of Israel ends and anti-Semitism begins. The current round touched a deeper chord, because many Israelis feel outsiders often accept the Palestinians' use of suicide bombings against civilians.

As Ambassador Mazel explained:

This exhibit was the culmination of dozens of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish events in Sweden. When you don't protest it gets worse and worse. It had to be stopped somehow, even by deviating from the behavior of the buttoned-down diplomat.

The Israeli government supports Mazel's protest, and the Jerusalem Post had this to say:

As for "diplomacy," Mazel was communicating his point in the only way possible. A formal protest would merely have been "duly registered," filtered and lost in the back channels of European diplomacy. So he chose to scream. But screaming was the only option Europe now gives Israel.


HonestReporting.com



Israeli ambassador goes bezerk 
link - 20.01.2004 00:08

Israeli ambassador goes bezerk at the Swedish Museum of

The Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, lost it totally this friday. He sabotaged an installation in the Museum of History in Stockholm. "This is an attack on the freedom of speech", says Kristian Berg, head of the museum.

 http://indymedia.se/newswire/display/54051/index.php
"Globale campagne tegen Joden" vanuit Zweden 
JV - 22.01.2004 09:03

Over paranoia gesproken...

"Sweden and its neighbors - not by chance, apparently - serve as homes to bases of operation from which, under the cover of opposition to Israel,

the global campaign against the Jews is being conducted.

Syria hosts the physical terrorist headquarters against Israel, and they host the bases of the propaganda terror. And this, not the artistic element, is the principal part of the public debate that those responsible for the fiasco should be promoting."



Website: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/385636.html
 
Zvi Mazel is a stupid & brutal occupier 
JV - 22.01.2004 15:38

""Murdered... innocent civilians... crying... the Zer Aviv family, the Almog family..." If the Feilers are anti-Semites, they're the most incompetent anti-Semites who ever lived"

Website: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1074691764967
 
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