Israeli vandalises Swedish suicide bomber art

[Theben]

Oh, ok then.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Theben
Great. Now the CGers will be *****ing about Poly for a month...

What's a CGer?

Oh, and KH:

[Theben]

CounterGlow'er

[Buck Birdseed]

A poster at Counterglow.

[Ming]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
See you around, Ming.

Yep... see you around. Send me a PM when you are interested in posting again.

[Edan]

Here is one person who's interpretation, IMO, matters far more than anyone's here:

Ora Regev, whose son Nir was killed in the attack at Maxim restaurant, told The Jerusalem Post she would like to thank Mazel for his actions. "He did exactly what needed to be done," Regev said. "This may not have been diplomatically or politically correct, but the time has come for people to think about us as well, about our feelings."

She said the exhibit, which she only heard about following the incident, is a terrible insult to the families of the victims, and is a "prize for the terrorist."

[Pekka]

Well just for the sake of debating, I saw it on TV news, and it looked awful lot like he threw the lamp in purpose, not just unplugged it. Anyway, makes no difference to me, he didn't go wild crazy anyway, but did interrupt a little bit.

I think it was inappropriate to attack the 'art', because they are often times kind of controversial anyway, but then again it wasn't a good idea that piece of 'art' anyway and I fully understand how someone good flip off and do something like that.............. it was tasteless work IMO.

[VetLegion]

Wow, 7 pages and one ban too - 8/10 to Winston, Ned and others.

As to the topic, I doubt this ambassador simply acted rashly, such persons get filtered from diplomacy before getting into important positions. I think he knew what he was doing, and if I was Swedish govt. I'd pack him to the first plane to Israel, with a copy of "Rules of diplomatic conduct", on government expense.

Just to be clear, Israelis have every right to be pissed if they care to, but that changes nothig in this case.

[Buck Birdseed]

Analysts here think it was a pre-planned act too, but maybe that's cause we've grown up in a country which maybe more than any other values the separation of progessional and personal conduct. I remain doubtful- would the Israeli covernment really pre-sanction such a flagrant piece of stupidity?

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Theben
Great. Now the CGers will be *****ing about Poly for a month...

We do not "***** about Poly".

Banned Polytubbies come to our site to do that.

[The Mad Monk]

Ned, I'm about as far politically from Krazy as one can reasonably get, and he has never insulted me.

[Winston]

The ambassador himself said to the Sunday edition of Israeli newspaper Haaretz that his action was in no way spontaneous. It was planned in advance after he read of the installation in a Swedish paper.

So it was not a matter of the ambassador having a bad temper and not being able to control it.

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Ned
The United States should send a strong message to Sweden to protest this one sided display that is ultimately an outrage to humanity.

[Winston]

And just to make things clear, I didn't report KrazyHorse to the mods. He caused his own downfall just by behaving the way he did.

[The Mad Monk]

Originally posted by Winston
The ambassador himself said to the Sunday edition of Israeli newspaper Haaretz that his action was in no way spontaneous. It was planned in advance after he read of the installation in a Swedish paper.

So it was not a matter of the ambassador having a bad temper and not being able to control it.

That certainly puts an interesting twist on things...I wonder what was going on in the backchannels between Israel and Sweden before this?