The Deutsche Welle (German) website reports today (April 9, 2012) that Israel has barred Nobel laureate Gunter Grass from entering the country, because the author wrote a poem in which Israel is depicted as endangering global peace. Grass claims to be a friend of Israel despite his poem.
Israel's interior minister, Eli Yishai -- who made the decision to bar Grass from Israel -- said in a statement yesterday that "Gunter's poem is an attempt to fan the flames of hate against the state of Israel and the Israeli people."
In the poem published last week -- titled "What Must Be Said" -- Grass wrote Israel must not be allowed to launch military strikes against Iran over fears that Tehran is building nuclear weapons.
Israel has threatened to take military action against Iran to halt what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as a threat akin to the Holocaust, in which some six million innocent Jews were killed by Hitler's Nazi Germany during World War II.
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