\u201cunhindered and permanent monitoring of Israel\u2019s nuclear potential and Iran\u2019s nuclear facility through an international entity that the government of both countries would approve.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nIsrael and some German Jewish prominent voices were quick to react. The Israeli Embassy in Berlin issued a statement offering its own version of \u2018What must be said.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat must be said is that it is a European tradition to accuse the Jews before the Passover festival of ritual murder,\u201d <\/em>the statements reads.<\/p>\nPretty outrageous, don\u2019t you think? In the open Israel together with its supportive Jewish lobbies (AIPAC, AJC)\u00a0 are pushing for a new global conflict. Yet, shamelessly the embassy defies criticism tossing in the air the old blood libel. The appropriate timely question here is why Israel and AIPAC are pushing for a world war and a potential nuclear conflict just before Passover? Can they just wait for another Yom Kippur (atonement day)?<\/p>\n
The Israeli Embassy continues,<\/p>\n
in the past, it was Christian children whose blood the Jews allegedly used to make their unleavened bread, but today it is the Iranian people that the Jewish state allegedly wants to annihilate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nIsn\u2019t it really the case? Every military expert suggests that Israeli pre-emptive attack on Iran could escalate into a nuclear conflict. If anything Grass tries like others, including your truly, to prevent Israel from celebrating its lethal symptoms once again.<\/p>\n
The Israeli embassy noticed though that<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is the only state in the world whose right to exist is openly doubted.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nC<\/em>orrect, and so it should be. Israel is a racist, expansionist state, it doesn\u2019t have room amongst nations.<\/p>\nThe Central Council of Jews in Germany also called the poem an \u201caggressive pamphlet of agitation.\u201d. I wonder, is it really aggressive to try and restrain an aggressor?<\/p>\n
The German newspaper Die Welt<\/em>, which apparently obtained an advance copy of Grass\u2019 poem, published a response by rabid Zionist Henryk Broder,\u00a0 the country\u2019s most prominent Jewish writer. \u201cGrass always had a problem with Jews, but it has never articulated it as clearly as he has in this poem.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 Broder said \u00a0\u201cGrass has always had a tendency toward megalomania, but this time he is completely nuts.\u201d <\/em>I would expect Germany\u2019s\u00a0 leading Jewish writer to come with something slightly more astute.<\/p>\nBorder however may be correct when he notes that Grass is<\/p>\n
\u201chaunted by guilt and shame and also driven by the desire to settle history, he is now attempting to disarm the \u2019cause of the recognizable threat.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nWednesday\u2019s poem is not the first time Grass has come out with critical views of Israel. In a 2001 interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, he offered his own solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael doesn\u2019t just need to clear out of the occupied areas,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cThe appropriation of Palestinian territory and its Israeli settlements are also a criminal activity. That not only needs to be stopped \u2014 it also needs to be reversed. Otherwise there will be no peace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nBroder contends that such a statement is \u201cno less than a demand for Israel to not just cede Nablus and Hebron, but also Tel Aviv and Haifa. \u201d he continues, \u201cGrass does not differentiated between the \u2018occupied areas\u2019 of 1948 and 1967.\u201d Needless to say that from an ethical perspective Grass is correct-there is no difference between 1948 and 1967. The Jewish State located itself on historic Palestine on the expense of the Palestinian people. I guess that Grass understood already in 2001 that the Jews only State must be transformed into a \u2018State of its Citizens\u2019. Israel should embrace the true notion of peace, universalism and inclusiveness.\u00a0 But I guess that we shouldn\u2019t hold our breath for it is not going to happen soon.<\/p>\n
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