Poets' broadside springs from Germany's guilty conscience, says Tel Aviv
During his long literary career, Gunter Grass has been many things. Author, playwright, sculptor and, unquestionably, Germany's most famous living writer. There is the 1999 Nobel Prize and Mr. Grass's broader post-war role as the country's moral conscience — albeit a claim badly undermined in 2006 when it emerged that the teenage Mr. Grass had served in the Waffen SS. But at the ripe old age of 84, Mr. Grass has triggered a furious row with a poem criticising Israel.
Entitled What Must Be Said and published in the Suddeutsche Zeitung, the lyric warns of a looming Israeli aggression against Iran. It argues that Germany should no longer deliver nuclear submarines to Israel that might carry “all-destroying warheads”.
‘My silence'
Mr. Grass also takes aim at Germany's reluctance to offend Israel — reproaching himself for “my silence” on the subject, and acknowledging that he will inevitably face accusations of anti-semitism.
He muses: “Why do I only speak out now/Aged and with my last drop of ink:/Israel's nuclear power is endangering/Our already fragile world peace?” He supplies his own apocalyptic answer: it must be said because “tomorrow might be too late”.
Mr. Grass also calls for “unhindered and permanent monitoring of Israel's nuclear facility and Iran's nuclear facility through an international entity”. Ultimately, he suggests, this would help everybody in this “delusional” region, including the Germans — or “us”, as he puts it.
Hardly surprising, then, that Mr. Grass's controversial late lyric has provoked indignation. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, led the attack, asserting: “Gunter Grass's shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran ... says little about Israel and much about Mr. Grass.” Mr. Netanyahu described Iran as “a regime that denied the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel”. He added: “It is Iran, not Israel, that is a threat to the peace and security of the world.” Mr. Netanyahu's attack then became more personal: “For six decades, Mr. Grass hid the fact that he had been a member of the Waffen SS.
“So for him to cast the one and only Jewish state as the greatest threat to world peace and to oppose giving Israel the means to defend itself is perhaps not surprising.” The Israeli embassy in Berlin took the format of Mr. Grass's poem and flung it back at him: “What must be said is that it is a European tradition to accuse the Jews before the Passover festival of ritual murder.” It concluded that Mr. Grass's broadside sprung from Germany's guilty conscience — “part of the German people's efforts to come to terms with the past”.
German response
German politicians from both Left and Right have traditionally been supportive of Israel, for obvious historical reasons. Several have criticised Mr. Grass, describing his work as “abominable”, “irritating” and “over the top”. Bild, a paper better known for its topless models, complained of “confused poesie”. And writing in Die Welt, the Jewish writer Henryk Border dubbed Mr. Grass “the prototype of the educated anti-semite”. He added that Mr. Grass was “completely nuts”.
All this forced Mr. Grass to offer his own pained reply. In an interview with North German Radio, the author complained on Friday that the tone of the criticism “didn't just concentrate on the contents of the poem” but amounted to a scurrilous campaign to say that his reputation “had been damaged for all time”.
Some commentators, however, offered a more convincing critique: that Mr. Grass wasn't anti-semitic, but simply didn't know what he was talking about. True, the Nobel Prize winner describes Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a “bigmouth”, or “Maulheld”. But otherwise, critics say, he offers a less than convincing analysis of the situation in the Middle East — failing to acknowledge, for example, Iran's regular threats to wipe Israel out. Instead Mr. Grass raises the unlikely spectre of Israel “annihilating” the Iranian people — using a German verb, ausloschen, which comes dangerously close to evoking the Holocaust.
“The poem is more interesting to Grassologists than to strategic analysts,” the Israeli historian Tom Segev, who has interviewed Mr. Grass, told the Guardian. Mr. Segev called the lyric “rather pathetic”.
He said it was “idiotic” to describe the writer as an anti-semite, but said Mr. Grass would be better served expending his last ink on a different creative project. “He's a great writer. He's 84. I hope he uses his last drops to write a good book.” He added that the writer appeared to have “some inner psychological need to be accused wrongly”.
‘A letter to the Editor'
The most interesting commentary came from the Suddeutsche Zeiting, which published the poem — German title Was gesagt werden muss — in a supplement. Mr. Grass had been writing poems since 1955 but his late ones weren't really poems at all, Thomas Steinfeld observed, and instead resembled pleas, complaints, or angry letters to the Editor. Of one lugubrious chunk he writes witheringly: “The only lyrical things here are the arbitary line breaks.” Interestingly, Mr. Steinfeld suggests that the award of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999 may have contributed to Mr. Grass's political intervention. The prize transformed Mr. Grass from a national figure — “Germany's preceptor” — to an unashamedly global one — “a custodian of world politics”. He argues that Mr. Grass is the only winner who feels the urge to comment on global affairs. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has not become a literary—political representative of South America, he notes, nor has JM Coetzee become the voice of South Africa, or Derek Walcott that of the Caribbean. Nor has Mr. Grass, it might be added, written a poem on Greece, a crisis nearer to Germany's doorstep and wallet.
Mr. Grass last attracted this much attention back in 2006, when he revealed in his autobiography, Peeling the Onion, that he had briefly served as a 17-year-old in the Waffen SS at the end of the Second World War. The admission in itself wasn't remarkable: many other teenagers of his generation were forced to join the SS as the war entered its chaotic final phase. What irritated was the fact that Mr. Grass had taken so long to admit this — an inexplicable delay for someone who blamed others for their Nazi pasts and was seen to personify national atonement and self-criticism.
For some, this detail means that Mr. Grass forfeited the right to comment on the Jewish state. Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre, described him as “totally compromised” and added: “The tin drum he is banging is not the one of moral conscience but of deep-seated prejudice against the Jewish people.” This is one view.
In fact Mr. Grass's critical opinions on Israel have surfaced before. In an interview with Spiegel Online in 2001, he described the “appropriation” of Palestinian territory by Israeli settlers as a “criminal activity”, adding: “That not only needs to be stopped — it also needs to be reversed.”
Moral obligation
It is certainly true that Germany's relationship with Israel is a problematic one, with the Holocaust taught in schools and the issue of historical guilt never far beneath the surface.
According to Constanze Stelzenmuller, senior transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, it is hardly surprising that Germany has a moral obligation to the state of Israel, given the country's past. “The German government has been very clear about this,” she said. Berlin has already supplied it with three Dolphin submarines, with two more being built, and a sixth in the pipeline.
But, Ms. Stelzenmuller says, Berlin has not been inhibited from criticising Israel, especially on the issue of Israeli settlements, last mentioned by Germany's Defence Minister two weeks ago. Of Mr. Grass, she said: “There's always been an anti-Zionist tendency in the European Left, including in the German left. It isn't pretty. Many modern thinkers on the centre-Left deplore this.”
Amid the criticism, a few voices came forward to defend Mr. Grass — the author, after all, of The Tin Drum, the great German novel of the Second World War and the rise of Nazism. “It's got to be possible to speak openly without being denounced as an enemy of Israel,” said Klaus Staeck, the president of the Berlin academy of art. He called the “reflexive condemnation” of Mr. Grass as an anti-semite inappropriate, and insisted that Mr. Grass was merely expressing his concern about developments in the Middle East. “A lot of people share this worry,” Mr. Staeck added.
Iran happy
Predictably, Iran warmly welcomed Mr. Grass's poem. Press TV, Iran's state-owned English-language satellite channel, hailed it as a literary sensation. “Never before in Germany's post-war history has a prominent intellectual attacked Israel in such a courageous way,” it said.
“Metaphorically speaking, the poet has launched a deadly lyrical strike against Israel.” The Press TV report also observed: “Israel is the only possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and it has never allowed inspections of its nuclear facilities nor has it joined the Non-Proliferation Treaty based on its policy of nuclear ambiguity.” — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2012
So, Zionists do not exist since Hertzel but for more than 2000 years, and they have not yet understood History lessons Humanity has given them since then. As they have not understood the VERY friendly lesson Gunter Grass gave them in his poem. Do they understand anything but VIOLENCE? It's not bad to harm Germans (Europeans, Christians) and make them GUILTY for ever. Is anyone guilty of the crime of his father, grand father or ancestors? Making profit of that guilt is a very similar SIN to that which led to violent solutions in 1939.
Since WW2 people of only two states,viz. the U.S in the West and those of former German Reich in Europe continue to suffer to date.The former as a victor, continue the burden the world over as a policing peace keeper and pioneer of democracy. The latter as a vanquished, continue to bear an indelible blot of collective guilt right from the time of defeat and ensuing de=nazification of contemporary generation till date of their grand children.
Those of U.S pay for their assigned world commitments and those of German Laender for the atonement of sins against ghastly suffering of Jews at the behest of Nazis in particular and disrespectful attitude of displaying anti-semitism in general.
Neither the soft peddled Americans nor the hard nut Germans,in spite of huge economic investments in support of Holy cause of the chosen people,appear always to fail to live up to the aspirations of their virtuous guidance.
Grass seeks to cut the failing rope tying humanity by nose and noose in poem.
Whatever happened to freedom of speech and expression! This episode highlights that this freedom may be stifled by attacking the locus of a person to speak his mind!
Innovative censorship this!
Countries which were once the white man's burden may learn of this new tool ... first step ... homogenise the popular beliefs and common perception ... everything else will be taken care of! this episode proves it.
Israel is rightly concerned about Grass stains as it fights turf wars
and turns the neighboring yards into killing fields in its efforts to
mow down all weeds and critics who keep appearing no matter how much the
IDF gardeners try to uproot all native flowers in the "Garden of Eden"
in Palestine. Israel is trying to censor all criticism of its illegal
and war criminal activities. Thanks to the internet and continuous news
coverage, it will no longer be possible for Israel to get away from its
war crimes and due justice at the ICC.
It is more than 65 years Adolf Hitler left this world but the current generation in Germany has been still repaying in terms of huge war reparations, emancipation of Holocost surivors, hunt for ex-nazis, and none can by law deny the Holocost. Hat's of that present generation of Germans silently tolerates and endures all these for no fault of theirs.History has been a witness that millions of innocent people have been killed during upmteen number of wars that have taken place since time immemorial and none of the successive Governments has so far apologised and have to pay reparations for what their predecessors did in past. Now world must appreciate the limits of tolerance of Germans. Is it not a fact that Israel has been acting in a way Adolf Hitler acted? Only difference is the form and extent of acting. Rani Laksmibai sacrificed to end British East India company's Rule in India and Hitler sacrificed to end British rule all over the world. Dr Amrit Patel
The madness of war is invariably sparked by the madness of a single idea. This idea, is always a simple and foolish thing. The desire to be apart from, and not a part of the brotherhood of all mankind. It is the idea that one must be greater and the other less. The idea that by our Creator we were first endowed with fangs and claws for mouth and hand, and not with kindness and equality for the heart. Each and every great battle in which rivers of red have flowed, sprang from the simple fear, that the world is a place where it was somehow ordained somewhere at a time long forgotten, that we must forever contend with the "other", since surely we were not made to be one another's keepers.
Now in the Middle East one nation works to set itself above all others in the region. One nation prefers to rule by the fear of fang and claw that is nuclear obliteration, rather than to work and strive towards keeping the peace in the region through equality, brotherhood and respect...
The man is a former SS officer who his that fact.
It is funnybhownwhen 2,000 year old scrolls get found in caves in the West Bank, they are
always written in Hebrew, and never in Arabic.
Why is that? Maybe it's because Jews lived in that land before it was invaded by Romans
and later in the 700s by Muslims, who forced the conversion of whatever Jews were
remaining in their ancestral homeland. Arabs are the invaders and squatters in the land of
another people.
Power of the pen is mightier than power of the sword. But in this era of stealth technology and political intrigues, those with the power of missiles and media think that they can accomplish what ever they want by muzzling the voices of reason. Pen still has the power to awaken the conscience, but those without shame continue to do what they are doing.
where is the poem? I'd like to read it for myself!
I am not sure what was so controversial about his remarks. The man is just stating the facts and speaking the truth. And as usual a certain section of the Israeli Military and Government use their excuse card about the Holocaust and anti-semitism.
And to say that only Arab nations (and India?!!) are intolerant and ban anything and everyone they don't agree with..! Whats wrong in what Grass has said? Israel is behaving like a rogue state and if its legitimate for it to have nuclear deterrent despite the fact that it has the solid support of powerful nations, how can anyone say Iran cant have it? And they don't want to give any legitimacy to Palestine. Its clearly a one sided game. Hope Grass shows the same courage that he had when he gave the world his 'Tin Drum' and doesn't chicken out. Its high time Europeans, who claim to believe in freedom of expression, question the stupidity of its laws banning so called 'anti-semitic' opinions.
In "my" country, daily the hysteria against Grass grows bigger, many label him as an nazi, and today Israel declared, that he cant cross his borders anymore. So, good to see some rational comments here! Cause in fact, Grass said nothing else then: one dont need to be a friend of the Mullahs, to be against an armed -even nuclear- attack on Iran. Cause this will set the whole region on fire and can lead to an worldwar. And thats it! Where is the antisemitism, if Grass argued for an international armed controll of BOTH countries?
If Iran attacks first, Israel can strike back. But they cant be allowed to start a risky war themselves and declare it as an "preventing" one!
(Another point, as i have the same forename: his name is Günter Grass- an u with two points above, pronounced as ue. It can also be written so. Gunter and Günter (or Guenter) are different german names, same as Shahin and Shahid.)
It is high time Israel woke to realities. You can't go and paint somebody as anti-semitic just because he made a valid statement.
Kudos to the Hindu for allowing a debate instead of being held hostage by the lobby for a rogue state that has managed to stand Palestinian history on its head and threatens to vaporize anyone and anything that calls its bluff.
An ethno-theocracy that calls itself a "democracy", the only nuclear armed regime in West Asia that is a serial aggressor and ruthless occupier, and that refuses to participate in the possibility of a nuclear-free Middle East, that resolutely defies international law and cynically manipulates the historic tragedy of the Jewish people during World War LL for its own "master race" ideology.
The NATO military-industrial complex's political cronies most willingly placate this rogue state's wildest delusions.
The angry reaction of Israeli Prime Minister to Gunter Grass’s broadside smacks of a firmly entrenched Zionist agenda to accuse anybody who dares criticize Israeli policy of anti-Semitism. The exaggerated reaction from the German intelligentsia coupled with an attempt to isolate him was also on the expected lines. Germany is notorious for pro-Zionist media outlets like Axel Springer which makes it mandatory for journalists to sign a pledge saying they will not write anything casting aspersions on Israel's right to exist. Last year, no less a major figure than Jose Saramago opened the floodgate of criticism from several quarters when he compared what he saw at the occupied territories in Gaza to Auschwitch. As Saramago succinctly put it, "Living under the shadow of the Holocaust and expecting forgiveness for everything they will do in the name of their suffering seems coarse. They have learned nothing from the suffering of their parents and their grandparents."
Hats Off to Mr Grass. No other German has the courage to speak the truth about Israel.
P.N.Shreeniwas,I except to hear from you on the following questions :
1. Are you aware that the Disputed Territories never belonged to the
“Palestinians” and only came into Israeli possession as a result of
the 1967 six day war in which Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon all
massed forces at Israel’s border in order to “push the Jews into the
sea”. The Arabs lost and Israel took control of the land. Do you agree
that if the Koranimals don’t want to lose territory to Israel, then
they shouldn’t start wars? Do you agree that there is justice that
Israel, who as far back as 1948 has always sought peace with her far
larger neighbors, should live in prosperity - making the desert bloom
- while the residents of 19 adjacent Arab countries who are blessed
with far more land as well as oil wealth live in their own feces?
2. Did you know that the “Palestinians” could have had their own
country as far back as 1948 had they accepted the UN sponsored
partition plan which gave Israel AND the Palestinians a countries of
their own on land which Jews had lived on for thousands of years
before Mohammed ever had a wet dream about virgins? The Arabs rejected
the UN offer and went to war with the infant Israeli nation. The Arabs
lost and have been whining about it ever since. Do you agree this is
like a murderer who kills his parents and asks for special treatment
since he is now an orphan?
3. Can you tell us ANY Arab country which offers Jews the right to be
citizens, vote, own property, businesses, be a part of the government
or have ANY of the rights which Israeli Arabs enjoy? Any Arab country
which gives those rights to Christians? How about to other Arabs?
Wouldn’t you just LOVE to be a citizen of Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran,
or Syria?
4. Since as many Jews (approximately 850,000) were kicked out of Arab
countries as were Arabs who left present day Israel (despite being
literally begged to stay), why should Arabs be permitted to return to
Israel if Jews aren’t allowed to set foot in Arab countries? Can you
explain why Arabs can worship freely in Israel but Jews would
certainly be hung from street lamps after having their intestines
devoured by an Arab mob if they so much as entered an Arab country?
5. Israel resettled and absorbed all of the Jews from Arab countries
who wished to become Israelis. Why haven’t any Arab countries offered
to resettle Arabs who were displaced from Israel, leaving them to rot
for 60 years in squalid refugee camps? And why are those refugee camps
still there? Could it be that the billions of dollars that the UNWRA
has sent there goes to terrorist groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, El
Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, or Hezbollah? How did Yassir Arafat achieve his
$300 million in wealth? Why aren’t these funds distributed for
humanitarian use?
6. Did you know that the Arabs in the disputed territories (conquered
by Israel in the 1967 war which was started by Arabs) and who are not
Israelis already have two countries right now? And that they are
called Egypt and Jordan?
7. If your complaint is about the security fence which Israel is
finally building in the Disputed Territories, are you aware that it is
built solely to keep the “brave” Arab terrorists out so that they can
no longer self detonate on busses, in dining halls or pizzerias and
kill Jewish grandmothers and schoolchildren? Why are the Arabs so
brave when they target unarmed civilians but even when they outnumber
their opponents they get their sandy asses kicked all the way to Mecca
when they are faced with Jewish soldiers? Why do Arab soldiers make
the French look like super heroes?
8. Please explain why you are so concerned about Arabs, who possess
99% of the land in this region and are in control of the world’s
greatest natural resource, which literally flows out of the ground?
Can’t their brother muslims offer some of the surplus land and
nature’s riches to the “Palestinians”? Or is it true that Arabs are
willing to die right down to the last “Palestinian”?
9. Why do you not exhibit the same level of concern for say, people in
Saudi Arabia who are beheaded, subject to amputation, stoning, honor
killing etc.? What about women who are denied any semblance of basic
civil rights, including the right not to be treated as property for
the entertainment and abuse of her father, brothers, or husbands? What
about the Muslims in Sudan and Egypt who are still enslaved, or the
women there whose genitalia are barbarically cut off? How about the
oppression of Shiites by Sunnis, the gassing of the Kurds by Iraq, or
the massacre of “Palestinians” by Jordan (Black September)? Why
doesn’t this concern you?
10. Did you ever stop to wonder how much better off everyone in the
region would be if Arabs stopped trying to kill Jews and destroy
Israel? What would happen if the Israelis gave up their weapons and
disarmed? Would they live to see the next day? But what would happen
if the Arabs completely disarmed? You know the answer: They would all
be AT PEACE! And if there is no war to rile them up, the Arabs would
be forced to look at their own repressive, pre-medieval societies. Why
would they want to do that when there are Jews to kill?
11. Have you heard “People who define themselves primarily by what
they hate, rather than who they love, are doomed to failure and
misery”? Can you see the parallels to the Arabs, who are blessed with
land and oil, but still gladly train their children to kill themselves
in order to kill Jews? Have you heard Golda Meir’s words to the effect
of “There will be peace when the Arabs love their children more than
they hate ours”? Why do the Arabs hate so much?
Gunther Grass is, in my opinion a closet nazi.
He was a member of the SS in his youth and a secret Jew hater ever
since. I wonder what other revelations we will learn about him over the
next few years and then after his death.
When will humanity renounce politics and start to trust? Israelis and Palestinians
should start trusting. Iran is not a danger. It was the US which has used nuclear and
chemical weapons. Bombing of Dresden was not just war crime but also jealousy that
seethed inside Churchill. Churchill believed there is no harm in using chemical
weapons against black people. Chomsky is the source to discover Churchill. Churchill
was more than colonizer and a racist. He is seen as a hero.
Gunter Grass ( just like Kurt Vonnegut ) has been a personal hero for 30 years. It was a thrill to meet him 5 years ago.
He has now shown the courage to speak out against Holocaust II being perpetrated by those who demand legitimizing it by invoking Holocaust I.
Would have expected nothing less from him.
BRAVO.
We wish him a long and healthy life and a clear mind
Gunter Grass is a brave German. I hope he would be equally vocal about Slave Trade of the British and Dutch, about the atrocities committed by the Belgians in Congo and about what America has been doing. Colonialism is the single largest evil committed on humanity as a whole.
The biggest racists have been Slave Traders like the Dutch, Belgians and the British, colonizers like the British have caused so much misery in Africa and Asia. Sir Winston Churchill's racist statements on why it is not wrong to use poisonous gas on black people, his anti-semitism, his hatred of Muslims are as bad as that of Adolf Hitler, yet he is the hero! Americans , to keep their ordinance factories running three shifts, keep supplying arms to warring factions throughout the world. When will we wake up to this terrible discrimination against the poor around the world, and also protect the young Germans. Hollywood keeps churning films to show them as the worst of humanity.
I believe Grass has been really honest. If Iran's nuclear facilities are to be monitored, so should Israel's. In-fact Israel has threatened Iran with nuclear annihilation and so is in no way better than Iran. People are entitled to their views and have the right to criticize Israel. Whenever valid criticism is raised against Israel by someone they are attacked by one and all in the western world, which shows their double standards and hypocrisy.
Israel uses one weapon much more effectively than any other i.e Collective Guilt
Shame that Germans feel for their Nazi past. Israel has milked this guilt for
too long. Germans have paid in billions as compensation and are suffering
everyday from this pointing of index fingers. History may repeat itself if Israel
keeps crossing the line. Gypsies too died in the Holocaust but no compensation
was paid to them, discrimination against them continues unabated. Now they are
just being renamed as Roma. They are originally from the subcontinent but the
class conscious and racist Pakistanis and Indians do nothing to speak up for them.
One doesn't have to carry the Christian guilt to feel remorseful and repentant to prevent oneself from criticizing Israeli excesses in Gaza Strip and West Bank. Grass has actually overcome the burden of the Nazi past to be fair minded. Germans should be strong and not let Christian guilt haunt them for ever. Strangely Americans, Russians, Japanese and all others seem to be less bothered or guilty about the terrible things they do and have done in the past. Israel always crosses the line in the way it treats Palestinians by hiding behind the cruelties inflicted on its race by the Nazis. Now it inflicts same cruelty on its own Semites. Arabs and Jews are both Semites. Discrimination based on Tribe and Culture seems much more powerful than racism!
Finally!! A member of the human race had the courage to utter the truth--unmasked! No nation of this planet has suffered the "Selbstzerfleischung" of Germany. Not the US for the annihalation of its native peoples, not the UK for its murdering colonialism, not South Africa--how long could one continue? The facts remain, Israel is a nuclear power. The courage to not publicize this truth continuously, is sorely lacking. Israel's statement "but, we have never used it", is ludicrous to say the least. The global community must not allow itself to be pulled into this potential apocalypse! My hat off to Guenter Grass!!
From last twelve years Mossad and Israeli politicians are asserting that Iran will be a nuclear power in one year..
Mr Gunter Grass’s comments taken on face value are rational and one fails to understand how it could be considered as an attack on the people practicing Jewish religion. Iran, since its Islamic revolution has been ruled by religious bigots some of whom in the past have used languages fit for demented idiots rather than responsible political leaders. They should be rightly criticised for that, but to paint Iran as a dangerous nation is not supported by that country's history. Any country that violates international law, or universally accepted human rights should be criticised. To deflect such valid criticism as an attack on religious identity or political system should be considered as an abuse of religion and politics.
Since World II there has been a continuous criticism of the "silent majority" of Germans, who did not stand up to Hitler's campaign of mayhem against not only Jews, but Gypsies, and many other nationalities. Now, it seems that the German government, armed with laws to suppress any criticism of Israel, and promising jail time for any violators, is finding itself in a very bad and awkward position of trying to silence the majority of its citizens. In its haste to prove its feeling of guilt over what happened in that war, it not only suppresses dissent, but arms Israel with nuclear-capable submarines, and other high-tech weaponry, at a time when Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land, keeping tens of thousands of political prisoners, and building illegal settlement on Palestinian land. So this incident about Mr. Grass, is only the latest of such outrages, and it really makes one wonder about how this government looks at justice in this world.
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