(New York Times) Israel's ambassador to Sweden Zvi Mazel said Saturday that he had physically attacked an art exhibit at a Stockholm museum because it "glorified suicide bombers." The exhibit was linked to a coming international conference on genocide sponsored by Sweden, in which Israel was scheduled to participate. The piece, "Snow White and the Madness of Truth," by expatriate Israeli artist Dror Feiler, featured a large basin filled with red fluid. A boat floated on top carrying a photo of a smiling Hanadi Jaradat, a woman suicide bomber who killed 22 people in an Oct. 4 attack on a restaurant in Haifa. "There was the terrorist, wearing her perfect makeup and floating on the blood of my people," said Mazel. "This is an expression of hatred for the Israeli people. This has glorified suicide bombers." He said he had ripped out electrical wires lighting the exhibit and tossed a spotlight into the basin.
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