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During this period, he also held the post as director of Eastern European division and head of the Egyptian and North African department at the Foreign Ministry.

[4] Mazel has written extensively on Israeli-Turkish and Israeli-Egyptian relations, commenting that Erdogan's attempts to reverse Atatürk's secular policies have put him and Turkey at odds with Israel and the Western world.

[7] Once, in reaction to a call to highlight that products from Israeli settlements sometimes had been labeled to fit into the EU-Israel tax-free trade agreement, Mazel stated that the Swedish Archbishop K. G. Hammar "probably is an anti-semite.

"[2] He has also been quoted as saying that Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh's criticism of Israel's alleged human rights violations could not be tolerated.

[2] Mazel also called former foreign minister Sten Andersson and Sweden's UN ambassador Pierre Schori "professional anti-Israelis.

[9][10][11][12] The installation took advantage of the reflecting pool in the courtyard of the Swedish History Museum, that was highlighted and filled with red liquid signifying blood.

"[7][15] Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later thanked Mazel "for his stand against the growing wave of anti-Semitism" in Sweden.

[13] In August 2009, the now-retired Mazel responded to the Swedish government's refusal to reprimand the tabloid Aftonbladet for publishing allegations that Israel harvested organs from dead Palestinians.