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April 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“But decent people everywhere should strongly condemn these ignorant and
reprehensible statements.”
The Israeli embassy in Berlin went one step further, accusing the poem of
perpetrating a blood libel, a reference to the medieval slur that Jews
dipped unleavened bread in the blood of a murdered Christian child at
Passover.
“What must be said is that it belongs to European tradition to accuse
Jews of ritual murder before the Passover celebration,” the embassy
said. The Jewish Passover week begins on Friday evening.
Grass was long seen as one of Germany’s leading moral voices, frequently
urging the country to face up to its Nazi past and even countenancing
against reunification, fearing it could pose a threat to the rest of Europe.
But his reputation was tarnished by his belated admission in 2006 that, as a
17 year old in 1944, he had been drafted into the Waffen-SS, the armed wing
of the Nazi party’s SS paramilitary unit, after being rejected by the
submarine service.
In his poem, entitled “What Must Be Said”, Grass suggested that he
had agonised about speaking out against Israel, saying he was aware that –
particularly as a German with a Nazi-linked past – he would be accused of
anti-semitism.
But he insisted that it was time for Germany, Israel’s closest ally in Europe,
to speak out before it was too late.
“Why only now, grown old,/And with what ink remains, do I say:/Israel’s
atomic power endangers/an already fragile world peace?” he writes,
before answering his own question: “Because what must be said/may be
too late tomorrow.”
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