(Reuters/Ha'aretz) Israel's ambassador to Norway, Liora Herzl, urged Oslo on Thursday to remove a metal sculpture from a central square, branding it anti-Semitic. The three-meter high work called "The Wall: Fragments of History" has the date of a 1947 resolution that established Israel beside the word "Holocaust." One Star of David on the work is partly covered by red paint, apparently meant to look like blood, and one side includes a row of words: "Ariel Sharon," "destruction," "rape, killings."
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