WEST BANK: FATHER OF HAIFA SUICIDE BOMBER HANADI JARADAT CRITICIZES ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN'S REACTION TO AN ART EXHIBIT IN STOCKHOLM FEATURING HIS DAUGHTER

Record ID: 358653

  • Title: WEST BANK: FATHER OF HAIFA SUICIDE BOMBER HANADI JARADAT CRITICIZES ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN'S REACTION TO AN ART EXHIBIT IN STOCKHOLM FEATURING HIS DAUGHTER
  • Date: 18th January 2004
  • Summary: (U6)JENIN, WEST BANK (JANUARY 18, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. FATHER AND MOTHER OF HANADI JARADAT, THE PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBER WHO KILLED 22 ISRAELIS IN MAXIM RESTAURANT IN HAIFA IN OCTOBER, IN THEIR HOME IN WEST BANK CITY OF JENIN LOOKING AT NEWSPAPER REPORT OF STOCKHOLM EXHIBIT 0.06 2. CLOSE OF MOTHER'S FACE 0.10 3. CLOSE OF PAPER WITH PHOTO O
  • Embargoed: 2nd February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: JENIN, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA1FTKRVY1IH3V2ZEKSBWSXXG2I
  • Story Text: Father of Haifa suicide bomber says democracies must
    support free artistic expression

    The Swedish ambassador to Israel has tried to smooth
    over a diplomatic spat over an art exhibit depicting a
    Palestinian suicide bomber, saying it might have been in
    bad taste, but had also been misunderstood.

    Not just right-wingers backed Ambassador Zvi Marzel's
    reaction. Justice Minister Tommy Lapid noted that, though
    attacking the exhibit may not have been a prudent
    diplomatic move, he understood the impulse.

    Marzel, attending the opening of an art exhibition in
    Stockholm on Friday (January 16) linked to an anti-genocide
    conference, said he saw red on encountering an artists'
    rectangular basin filled with red fluid.

    A boat -- the name "Snovit" on its side and carrying a
    portrait of bomber Hanadi Jaradat, a raven-haired woman who
    killed herself and 22 Israelis in a restaurant in northern
    Israel in October -- floated in the pool of symbolic blood.

    Marzel disconnected electrical cables of spotlights
    that surrounded the work, shoving one of the lights into
    the basin and Israel into a diplomatic spat with Sweden.

    The expatriate Israeli artist who created "Snow White
    and the Madness of Truth" said Marzel missed the point of
    the exhibit, referred to an attack by a reporters.

    Earlier on Sunday (January 18), Taisir Abdel Malek
    Jaradat, the father of the bomber Hanadi criticized
    Marzel's action.

    "His thinking is very limited, because he represents a
    country that claims to be democratic, and the other point
    is that he went to see an exhibition which included works
    by Israeli artists, and these artists were expressing
    themselves. So, this is part of the democracy that they
    (the Israelis) profess."

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