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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the cabinet Sunday that he fully supports Israel's ambassador to Sweden Zvi Mazel, who sparked a diplomatic incident when he wrecked a museum display Friday that he said glorified the suicide bomber who murdered 21 Israelis at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa last year. Sharon said that he called the ambassador to thank him for taking action at the Stockholm museum. "I thanked him for standing up against the growing anti-Semitism and I told him that the government stands behind his action," Sharon said. "I think that our ambassador acted as was necessary, the phenomenon...

Few places on earth seem likelier to soothe diplomatic tempers than the refined surroundings of a Swedish museum. So 400 invited guests quietly consuming canapes could be forgiven their amazement when an ambassador erupted in violent protest at a work of art depicting an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber. Zvi Mazel, Israel's ambassador to Sweden, ripped out electrical wires, grabbed a spotlight and hurled it into a fountain, causing it to short circuit and become a potential death trap. The installation Snow White and the Madness of Truth, located in the courtyard of Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities, featured a basin...

Sweden on Monday will summon Israeli Ambassador Zvi Mazel to explain his actions Friday when he intentionally damaged a piece of art depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber that was displayed at a Stockholm museum. Click for text accompanying artwork "We will ask him to explain and from our side we will maintain that it is unacceptable to destroy works of art in this way," Swedish Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Anna Larsson said Saturday. The artwork, 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...

Ambassador wrecks suicide bomber exhibit in Sweden By JPOST.COM STAFF In what the avant garde might call a transgressive work of performance art, Israel's ambassador to Sweden, Zvi Mazel, wrecked Friday an exhibit in Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber. Located in the museum's courtyard, "Snow White and the Madness of Truth" depicted a smiling Hanadi Jaradat, the Maxim restaurant suicide bomber who killed 21 patrons and staff as well as herself on October 4. Her photograph was placed on a little boat floating in a basin filled with water dyed red. The ambassador was...

Israeli ambassador kicked out of Swedish museum after vandalizing art 2 hours, 16 minutes ago Add Mideast - AFP to My Yahoo! STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Israel's ambassador to Sweden was kicked out of Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities after he destroyed an artwork featuring a picture of a Palestinian suicide bomber, the artists said. AFP Photo   The incident, widely reported in the Swedish media, occurred at the opening on Friday of the "Making Differences" exhibit, part of an upcoming international conference on genocide hosted by the Swedish government and in which Israel is scheduled to participate. Sweden's foreign ministry...

STOCKHOLM - Israel's ambassador to Sweden destroyed an artwork depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber in a Stockholm museum on Friday, Swedish radio reported on Saturday. 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 21 others in an attack at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa on October 4. 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...