Posted on 01/19/2004 1:40:47 PM PST by veronica
The “artwork” is titled “Snow White and the Madness of Truth” and it will be on display at the Historical Museum exhibition for an international anti-genocide conference in Stockholm this month.
Although the title of this piece of “art” may sound like a fairy tale, it is more akin to a nightmare. The piece consists of a shallow basin of water dyed red to simulate blood and a small white boat with a picture mounted on its mast, perhaps to act as a sail. The picture on this makeshift sail is a smiling portrait of Hanadi Jadarat, a Palestinian female homicide bomber who murdered twenty one Israelis including several children.
Upon seeing this avant garde display of vulgarity, the Israeli Ambassador, Zvi Mazel, promptly yanked out the electrical wires connected to the display and threw one of the spotlights into the basin.
If at this point you do not share Mazel’s revulsion of this trash masquerading as art, consider some choice passages I have selected from the text accompanying the display:
“…her[Jaradat’s] hair was as black as ebony seemingly innocent with universal non-violent character.”
Seemingly innocent? Jaradat was a member of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad. Universal non-violent character? You must be joking, she blew up twenty one innocent men, women and children with a bomb strapped to her body. It makes you wonder what a truly violent individual would do.
“The murderer will yet pay the price.”
No doubt that this refers to the Israeli soldiers who shot and killed her brother and cousin who were also terrorists affiliated with Islamic Jihad. Do these words sound like a seemingly innocent universal non-violent character to you? While you think about that, dear reader, I have one more uplifting passage to lay on you.
“…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.’”
What a sweet, loving, sentiment! “Then let the whole world be erased.” It makes you just want to hug the world with an ultra special and sensitive, seemingly innocent and non-violent character!
So you’re not sick to your stomach yet? You think you can handle even more? Then read what the Swedish Foreign Ministry and the “artist” Dror Feiler had to say regarding Mazel’s reaction.
Swedish Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Anna Larsson: “We will ask him [Mazel] to explain and from our side we will maintain that it is unacceptable to destroy works of art in this way.”
The explanation for Mazel’s behavior, Spokeswoman Larsson, is that the Swedish government, in contravention to understandings with Israel, linked the conference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the most despicable manner: by referring to a terrorist as Snow White and having her image floating on a sea of blood of innocent victims. Mazel did not destroy a work of art. He rid the “enlightened European art world” of an abomination.
The exhibit’s “artist” Dror Feiler: Called Mazel’s actions, “Vandalism,” and explained that, “The artwork was supposed to call attention to how weak people left alone can be capable of horrible things.”
Feiler is an Israeli living in Sweden. At one time he served as an Israeli paratrooper but later refused to serve in Gaza. Placing his yearning for peace above all other values, Feiler calls Mazel’s reaction vandalism yet Feiler feels no compunction about vandalizing the memory of over twenty people murdered by a monster. Furthermore, Jaradat was not a “weak person” as Feiler would have us believe. She was a lawyer, the elite of society. Horrible things do not happen when people are left alone. They happen when those people are consumed by blind hatred that is so fanatical it allows them to kill children.
Before closing out, I must thank the Swedish government, without whom none of this outrage would have been possible. The Swedish government managed two extraordinary feats in this elaborate escapade. First, it reneged on a promise to Israel not to make the exhibit political by linking the conference to the Middle East conflict. Second, it simultaneously allowed into the exhibit three Israeli pieces of art that were pro-Palestinian in nature while excluding a pro-Israeli piece because of diplomatic pressure from that champion of human rights, Syria!
Some of you may think that this incident has left me bitter, but actually I’m inspired. You see, I consider myself an artist. Since this Swedish exhibit will not open to the public until later this month, I figure I will submit this piece as a replacement to the text currently hanging by the exhibit. Being true to myself as an artist, I will only insist on one thing from the Swedish government. So as not to compromise my artistic integrity, they must consent to change the display from the bizarre “Snow White and the Madness of Truth” to my more appropriate and accurate “Snow White and the Swedish Dolts.”
Answered my own question. This is not anti-jewish art celebrating death, it is the opposite.
Horrible people are also capable of horrible things. Thank God they are weak.
And call it art.
Change the title to: Lord of the Flies
From the "artist"'s previous comments, and the acommpanying text , I'd say it comes from fil lusty feeings for the assassin.
This is not anti-jewish art celebrating death, it is the opposite.
Pro-arabist art celebrating death?
Given the how the whole beauty and blood image will play to the arabist glorification of martydom iconography, I'd say a "condemnation of her and her tactics" will be the last thing resulting.
You are wrong. There was a poem accompanying the "artwork" that praised her. It said the white of her skin/innocence was beautiful when mixed with the red of the blood of her victims. It was absolutely celebrating her murder. The Euroweenies are now lying about the actual content of the art to make the Israelis look bad (to make them look like stupid hicks who can't appreciate or understand art). It is part of their campaign of dehumanization and delegitimization of Israelis.
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