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To: Machaon who wrote (5547)	1/21/2004 2:27:58 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

Isra'Eli Terrorist Strikes Out In Sweden usatoday.com JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon praised Israel's ambassador to Sweden on Sunday for vandalizing a Stockholm art display about a Palestinian suicide bomber, saying the "entire government stands behind him." Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the envoy "behaved in an appropriate way." By Brennan Linsley The Israeli ambassador, Zvi Mazel, threw a mounted spotlight at the outdoor exhibit in Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities on Friday. He said the display legitimized genocide, and Israel has demanded that it be removed. The artwork depicts a small ship in a rectangular pool filled with red-colored water. The ship carries a picture of Islamic Jihad bomber Hanadi Jaradat, who killed herself and 21 bystanders in an Oct. 4 suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel. Sharon told a cabinet meeting Sunday he had called Mazel and thanked him "for his strength in dealing with increasing anti-Semitism, and told him that the entire government stands behind him." "I think Ambassador Mazel behaved in an appropriate way," Sharon said. "I think the phenomenon is so serious that it would have been forbidden not to have acted on the spot." Dror Feiler, the Israeli-born artist who created the piece, said it was supposed to call attention to how weak, lonely people can be capable of horrible things. The museum says it has no intention of removing the piece, and officials will invite Mazel there next week for a discussion about different interpretations of art. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Sunday it would summon the Swedish ambassador in Israel to protest Feiler's piece. Mazel was also being summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm to explain his action.