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April 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“If Gunter wants to continue disseminating his distorted and mendacious
works I advise him to do it from Iran where he will find a supportive
audience,” Yishai said on Sunday.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman also criticised the poem on
Sunday, during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.
He said it was an expression of the “cynicism” of some Western
intellectuals, “who for their self-promotion and desire to sell a few
more books are willing to sacrifice the Jewish people for the second time on
the alter of deranged anti-Semites.”
“We expect the European leadership to take a firm stance against such
remarks made by public opinion leaders, and to not enable them,” he
added, warning that “we have already seen in the past how small seeds
of anti-Semitic hate turn to a large fire that harms all humanity”.
The poem has also sparked debate in Germany, where Foreign Minister Guido
Westerwelle on Sunday penned a commentary that appeared to criticise Grass,
without making explicit reference to the author.
“Germany has a historic responsibility for the citizens of Israel,”
he wrote in Bild Am Sonntag, Bild newspaper’s Sunday magazine.
“To put Iran and Israel on an equal moral footing is not clever but
absurd,” he wrote.
Iran’s deputy culture minister Javad Shamaqdari on Saturday praised Grass’s
poem, saying “it warns beautifully.”
Grass, author of the renowned anti-war novel “The Tin Drum,” sparked
outrage in 2006 when he revealed, six decades after World War II, that he
had been a member of the notorious Waffen SS.
Israel, the sole if undeclared nuclear power in the Middle East, has said it
is keeping all options open for responding to Iran’s nuclear programme,
which it says is aimed at securing nuclear weapons, posing an existential
threat to the Jewish state.
Iran has consistently denied that its sensitive nuclear work is aimed at
making weapons.
Source: AFP
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