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Thread: Gunter Grass: Poem critical of Netanyahu's Iran policy, not Israel
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[quote=MARRIE,463876]Remarks during interview with German newspaper come as Iran official says Nobel laureate beautifully carried out his human and historical responsibility. By Ofer Aderet and The Associated Press Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass, who is under fire for a poem that criticizes Israel, has told German media that he was singling the Israeli government, not the country as a whole. In the poem published in European dailies earlier this week, the 84-year-old German author criticized what he described as Western hypocrisy over Israel's nuclear program and labeled the country a threat to "already fragile world peace" over its stance on Iran. He's since been accused of anti-Semitism, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuked his views as "ignorant and objectionable." In an interview published Saturday by the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Grass says he sought foremost to single out the policies of "Netanyahu's current government." In an interview published Saturday by the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Grass says he sought foremost to single out the policies of "Netanyahu's current government." "It's that which I criticize, a policy that keeps building settlements despite a UN resolution. I'm criticizing a policy which is creating more and more enemies for Israel and is increasingly isolating it," Grass said. The German writer added that Netanyahu was the person who did Israel the most harm, saying he "should have added that to the poem." [/quote]
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