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Ambassador Zvi Mazel, Iconoclast

(Jerusalem Post) * Ambassador Mazel unplugged the spotlights illuminating the exhibit commissioned by the Stockholm International Forum, the sponsor of a conference of international leaders on "Preventing Genocide: Threats and Responsibilities" to be held later this month. * Israel has no business attending a conference on "Preventing Genocide" that is oblivious to the slow-motion genocide being perpetrated against Israel. We use that word deliberately, since these are not individual murders, but representative of the genocidal threats made by nations and groups against Israel that remain unimplemented only for lack of ability, not of will. * It can be said that Mazel behaved undiplomatically. But we're past the point where we can pretend that the demonization of Israel will go away if we don't call attention it. * 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. * Now we are told that Mazel's response was inappropriate. But what would have been the appropriate response by Israel's representative to depicting the spilt blood of its citizens by "Snow White" as a form of art? Perhaps a strongly-worded letter to the editor?
2004-01-19 00:00:00
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