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"Israel's ambassador to Sweden, who has caused a full-scale diplomatic row over an art installation, said Tuesday part of his motivation was an anti-Israeli stance by the Swedish governing party and the country's press."
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"The Social Democracy in this country is pro-Arab," he said in an interview with AFP. "There are many voices which are pro-Islamic and anti-Israeli. We've got a problem." Mazel said Persson, a Social Democrat, was an exception, "the good man", but "the party is big".
"Everything Israel does is bad. When you read the press in Sweden, Israel is always the bad guy. The press in Sweden is completely anti-Israeli," he said. Dubbed "Snow White and the Madness of Truth" and exhibited at Stockholm's Museum of National Antiquities, the artwork showed a tiny sailboat floating on a pool of red water. Attached to the boat was a smiling photo of a female bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, who killed 21 Israelis at a restaurant in northern Israel in October."
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"His act was also motivated by anger at the Swedish press for attributing the "scapegoat" role to Israel for problems in the Middle East. "I'm accustomed to it, but when I saw a creation which is meant to be a glorification of terror, of suicide bombings, I could not hold myself back," he said. "I'm not saying, absolutely not, that this country is anti-Semitic. But what I'm saying is that there is a very strong Muslim anti-Semitism, and Jews are being harassed by Muslims everywhere. In schools, in the street, in the metro, everywhere," he said."
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