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Israel endangering world peace?

Israel  is “directing warheads of mass destruction to a place where the existence of a single nuclear bomb is unproven.”

Nobelist Grass Says Nuclear-Power Israel Threatens Peace Bloomberg News, By Catherine Hickley   April 04, 2012 Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize winning author of “The Tin Drum,” attacked Israel’s nuclear capacity and the threat it poses to Iran in a poem published in today’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

In the poem titled “What Has to Be Said,” Grass says that Israel, as a nuclear power “is endangering already-fragile world peace.” He describes its nuclear potential as “out of control, because no one can examine it.”

He criticizes Germany for promising to deliver a submarine to Israel
whose specialty is “directing warheads of mass destruction to a place
where the existence of a single nuclear bomb is unproven.” Israel, he
says, maintains its right of first strike against the Iranian people,
whom he describes as “enslaved by a braggart, forced into organized
jubilation.”…. Grass’s poem urges the global community to call on
Israel as the “cause of recognizable danger” to abstain from violence
and both countries to allow “unhindered and permanent inspections by
an international authority of Israel’s nuclear potential and the
Iranian nuclear facilities.”…
In his poem, Grass takes himself to task for his silence on the issue
so far, saying his German heritage is “cursed with an indelible stain
that prevents” him from criticizing Israel, a country which he says he
“is and will remain attached to.”

‘Anti-Semitism’
Israel’s critics easily attract “the verdict ‘anti- Semitism,’” Grass
wrote…. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-04-04/nobel-winner-grass-says-nuclear-power-israel-threatens-peace

April 5, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general