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Latest Scandanavian 'art' outrage
In November 2003 it was 'Snow White,' in February 2004 'Anti-Semite in the Name of God' and now there's 'Wall: Fragments of History':
Israel's ambassador to Oslo has protested to Norwegian authorities over a sculpture she considers insulting to her country.
It is the second time this year she has protested over a controversial artwork.
In a letter to the culture ministry and the Oslo city authorities, envoy Liora Herzl denounced a statue on display in the central Youngstorget Square which links Israel with the Holocaust, greed and a notorious massacre of Palestinians.
The artwork, by the late sculptor Sigurd Bjoern Engvik and entitled Wall: Fragments of History, represents an abuse of freedom of speech, Ms Herzl said in her letter.
The artwork combines symbols and inscriptions, depicting the star of David drenched in blood, dollar signs and words such as "murder", Sabra" and "Shatila," a reference to the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon where hundreds of people were killed in September 1982 with the complicity of the Israeli armed forces.
"Criticism is important, legitimate and part of the democratic system," Ms Herzl said, but asked: "When the criticism gives associations to Holocaust and includes blood-dripping stars of David and implications of greed through the use of dollar signs ... is this then political criticism or is it something completely different?
"To me, this sculpture misuses freedom of expression in the worst possible way and in my opinion should not be allowed to be exposed in a public place," she said.
The sculpture also incorporates the date November 29, 1947 - the day on which the United Nations approved the creation of two states, one Arab and the other Israeli - allied to the word "Israel" followed immediately by the word "holocaust," with a star of David inserted between each letter.
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The item (from ABC) forgets to mention who actually carried out the massacare at Sabra and Shatila. I'm sure some people don't even know the Lebanese Christian did it. Others might have heard it occasionally, but probably think that it's only a claim. After all, whenever Sabra and Shatila are talked about, it's somehow left (as in this case) unsaid.
To make matters worse, this article (which supposedly comes to present Israel's complaint) makes the absurd suggestion that the massacare (while neglecting to mention who actually carried it out) was perpetrated "with the complicity of the Israeli armed forces".
In fact, this is the base-less (and quite idiotic) claim of the Palestinian propaganda machine. The very claim itself is a smear.
Whoever made the 'art piece' is no journalist. He/She have no commitment to the truth of events. The writer of the ABC article can't say the same thing. Or are journalists now allowed to make obscene charges without any real evidence?
Posted by: alvin_day at Sep 25, 2004 6:44:04 PM
Whoops. My apologies. The article is from AFP and ABC simply swallowed it and printed it for other people to swallow. This subtle rewriting of history by AFP is no surprise, but to disseminate it, they need the helpless unthinking complicity of other news outlets like ABC.
Posted by: alvin_day at Sep 25, 2004 6:48:14 PM
This ‘art’ and the previous ‘snow white’ piece are no art.
Those are gimmicks. Provocative imagery designed to attract attention to written massages. To simply put it, these are commercials. And what are they selling? Palestinian propaganda. A propaganda, which like the Palestinian mass murder campaign, sees the first ever-free Jewish society, the state of Israel, as abomination worthy of destruction.
Posted by: ZionistIndeed at Sep 27, 2004 1:52:52 PM
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