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<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">At least since 1947 a succession of United States governments has been sowing dragons’ teeth – </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">failed states, endless wars, destitution, self-inflicted wounds, national immiseration - </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">dragon’s teeth, big and small: between 1947 and 1953</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">election meddling in Greece and Italy, finessing the devolution of Colonialism in Indochina by letting the French dangle in the wind at Dienbenphu, the overthrow of </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">democracy in Guatemala, the first of numerous dragon’s</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">teeth, sown in that region, the true molar there </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">being Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs which, then, nearly led to a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">States. </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The first really really big productive molar – disregarding Korea at the peril of my enumeration - under Ike and the Dulles Brothers, Alan and John Foster, the third of the Dullesses, a bishop, always busy blessing! - </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">however is the overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran in 1953 and installation of the dictatorial Shah – that molar </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">has been sprouting baby teeth scores of years in </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the form of a regressive and aggressive theocratic </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">regime that ensures forever war and vigilance.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> But the Wisdom Teeth among Dragons teeth, </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the real biggies of the lot, that engendered a </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">host of baby dosies, are the Vietnam War and its </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">spread to Laos and Cambodia, the destabilization of Afghanistan under Carter/ Brzezinski to draw in </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the Soviet Union bear and the United States </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">forever more, and the conquest of Iraq which </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">led to the war against ISIS and in Syria and </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and and and the occasional blowback that </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">ensures further war. Not to be forgotten are </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the conquest of Libya; the overthrow of Allende </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and, overall, the vain attempt to go against </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the post-WW II post-colonial liberation tide </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">to replace the British and French imperiums </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">with an American one, nor the specific instances where liberators like Lumumba are assassinated, </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">dragons teeth all that continue to sprout baby </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">teeth galore; all, in retrospect, entirely </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">superfluous; of benefit to no one but the military </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">industrial complex and to the resource industries </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and to capitalism; each ventures of a pro-active </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">kind and based on paranoia, whereas not only did </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">there exist no danger there existed the opportunity </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">for friendship, the possibility to assist in the </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">liberation from colonialism. Instead there was</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">created the condition for forever war, no end of</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">enemies; all done purporting to advance democracy </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and to defend the nation from imminent danger of </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">one kind or another; as well as to protect the </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">nation from the Martians of Orson Well’s </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>War of the World.</u> In short, the United States is </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">a nation that terrorizes itself and only needs to </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">fear itself</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "courier new";"><span style="font-size: medium;">February 2018</span></span></b></div>
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SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-34759760461001983292017-09-13T10:35:00.004-07:002017-09-13T10:35:47.270-07:00WHAT MIGHT MAKE THE UNITED STATES TRULY GREAT?<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: lime;"><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: lime;">The one-sentence answer: If it truly lived up to its professed ideals!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: lime;">The elaborated answer:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: lime;">1] If it admitted to the crimes of slavery and extermination of the Native people and made amends & effected the necessary redress.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: lime;">I] If it admitted to the perversion of its Monroe doctrine and apologized – the very least it could do - to all Caribbean, Central & South American countries for the invasions, overthrowing of their governments, and to Mexico for stealing a third of its land in the 19the century, and made the requisite amends.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: lime;">3)If it pleaded guilty to the crimes of the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh, of the 1953 invasion of Guatemala, the attempt to replace the French as overlords of Indochina that led to the invasion of Vietnam; to the criminal destabilization of Afghanistan – and if it did so it would be in defiance of George Herbert Bush’s claim that the United States never apologizes, in his case refusing to do so for shooting down an Iranian passenger plane and killing 250 human beings. And if Uncle Sam also apologized for the madness of his anti-communism he would cease to be known as a mean, small-minded paranoid sadist & instead would set an example, an example that would shine as bright as the sun.</b></span><br />
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<br />SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-51645270939621719942017-09-04T08:21:00.001-07:002017-09-04T08:22:29.483-07:00ON FAKE NEWS<b style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/the-fake-news-fallacy&source=gmail&ust=1504622848059000&usg=AFQjCNGQRmJRbbDUC3P7bBSuG5meRbh3eQ" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/04/the-fake-news-fallacy" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.newyorker.com/<wbr></wbr>magazine/2017/09/04/the-fake-<wbr></wbr>news-fallacy</a>?</span></b><br />
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<b><u><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">THE “FAKE NEWS” CONUNDRUM<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">It ought not to come as a surprise
that a demagogue shouting “fake news“ obtains considerable automatic agreement
from his followers, and does so in a world that is overwhelmed with information
and where most everything yet is actually knowable and verifiable if you have
the time, the time, the time, the patience the patience and the knowledge and
capacity to verify. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 150%;">The matter of the current
Trumpian edition of Fake NewS is scarcely merely a matter of normal human, or
if you like, mammalian dread as which it
can be accounted in the instance of Welles’ WAR OF THE WORLDS in 1938.</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">„Fake“ &
„News“, two words not found co-joined until recently, yet in
a short time the phrase has come to
sound as though it had been around for years, loud and clear…. to obscure, to
defeat, at least to throw into doubt even the most obvious and rationally
ascertainable truths such as the contribution of human activity to the heating
of the planet & its exponential consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">“We” all
know a fake when we see it! Except for
the one’s we miss, or the ones we get used to living with, or where we think
what the hell what does it matter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Then there are the true believers,
say, the Seventh Day Adventist, but how do you prove to them that there are
barking up the wrong tree? How can news even be fake? News is news, is new or
old hat, but then it ought not to be called news, should it, except by
sleepyheads.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;"> “Fake” is a word that you learn while you are
still young. “That’s a fake,” the kid is
told about a wooden nickel! (I have never seen one!) The first fake experience
a kid will have is of a false nipple, an appeaser for the longing for the real
thing. “Real” & “fake” will be
concepts coupled as diametrically opposed in the kid’s mind. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">A “falsie”
in adolescence does not refer to a wooden nickel but to whatever it takes – tissue
paper, padding of any kind - to make believe it is a mature breast, an
enhancement to make a young girl appear more mature and attractive and to
enhance her sense of womanliness in the making., which will disappoint the
callow boyfriend’s hand. – <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">The concept
“false”/ <i>falta </i>seeps into one’s
American being at an early age, never to be disabused, but to be augmented by
an increasing number of experiences of buying, being subjected, being fooled by
matters that are not what they seem. The breast that the mature lover caressed
is of silicone! – No wonder that my caresses fail to elicit the anticipated
response, no wonder that the news so often elicits the response “same same.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">On the basis
of the above observation you could conclude that the truthfulness of the news that
all kinds of media convey is susceptible to serious doubt; the only news you therefore
end up trusting are your bodily sensations, what you see and feel and hear;
everything mediated is susceptible to doubt. Whose word do you trust? Family, friends &
then there are those who take the Bible literally. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">To above
cited reasons to distrust the news are then added instances when the
government, not just a corporation, has lied to you, to the public. Propaganda. Propaganda in an Orwellian world. And has lied for generations. And in the most
important matters of war and peace. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">In addition,
keep in mind the human propensity to deny unpleasant news, for denial, for
wishful thinking, for fantasy, for misunderstanding. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: x-large;">Thus,
shocking as it continues to be, it is not all that surprising that a demagogue
might succeed in devaluing truthful news by screaming “fake” at everything that
is critical of him and that disagrees with his views, and have his followers
act as his chorus; although, I must say, it continues to surprise that such a
major onslaught, even on the most obvious of truths, should find such a wide
responsiveaudience. Dommage. And yet another factor comes into play: How much available
time exists for the average working stiff to obtain, dwell on and possibly
check the truthfulness of the news, local, national, international? Should
there be doubt as to a story’s truthfulness how long will it take, on average,
to verify – not all that much, say, of a local warehouse fire, although there
may be residual doubt as to the fire’s source.
A national story will take hours to track. Imagine being eighteen years old: how long will
it take to have a fair idea of the whys and wherefores of the sixteen-year old Afghanistan
war, whose origin dates to Carter/Brzezinski’s destabilization to draw in the stupid
Russian bear, the Soviets; that is, to the Cold War. Dwell on the long, propaganda-filled
stretches that you need to traverse in this Orwellian world to reach something
approximating truth! Think about the
news sources! For example, here in Seattle we have but a single newspaper, it
aggregates its out of town news, mostly from AP, Blomberg, McClatchey & the
New York Times; two weekly local news sheets of the Village Voice type; a few T.V. stations whose news output scarcely
differs; some variants in cable and radio news and commentary; a locust plague of info-bits on social media
if you choose to expose yourself to it;
a number of political and civil interest blogs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>Professor Snyder’s salutary reminder how governments can take dictatorial control ought not to have left out Hitler’s icing of the cake of his assumption of complete power, the "Night of the Long Knives",</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>which ought, actually, not feature such a darkly romantic label but be known as the "Days of preventive, competitive, vengeful mass executions & murder" and was acually enacted during the course of a long weekend & was what led Brecht to draw the accurate parallel between Chicago style gangster execution for his "The Evitable Rise of Artuto Ui," and has been an event close to my heart since the grandfather on my mother's side, Werner von Alvensleben </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> No such coup unfortunately was in the works, nor was Colonel a.d. von A,, ex-go-between Chancellor Schleicher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Schleicher</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>& Hitler, in the positiont to do anything of the kind, but Opa A. had made a joke to that effect, as he had made fun of Hitler, the one time that he had H. for lunch, clowning around, instead of poisoning him, about H.’s evident ambition, reminding Hitler, to his chagrin, of Napoleon’s fate at the gates of Moscow - a lunch of which I came to know that his wife, my grandmother, subsequent to the lunch saying “that she just as soon not have the gentleman for lunch again.” Hitler, at the time that the “Long Knives,” certainly had all the reasons in the world to be paranoid that justified vengence for any number of matters might be near, as paranoia characterized Hitler’s life. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Opa A. was fortunate to have one of the organizers of the murder spree, Count von Helldorf, who himself was executed subsequent to the 20th of July attempt on Hitler’s life</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: medium;"><b>suggest that he spend the weekend at his hunting lodge, whereupon he was arrested and condemned to death, a sentence that was commuted to a life sentence which, however, appears to have allowed occasional stretches of freedom, for otherwise he would not have been present at my 4th birthday and Christmas & provided the occasion for the most major of my screen memories in my memoir Screen Memories</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: cyan;">“A great house-nigger!” I say, Jamie Dimon’s best of the kind. “Yes we can” “stay the same,” - the same old same same - we keep the criminal national security & economic team & of course don’t prosecute, god forbid the thought, only prosecute truth-leakers, we exercise discretion, we are the smoothest killer from Chicago ever & the idea of putting Old Ossama bin on trial gives us hives, Terror Tuesday tries to avoid wedding parties full of Jihadists as foul meat is with maggots, let’s think of Jihadists a maggots, yes. The only war we pursue is the one the New York Times also wants me to: black sheep in Afghanistan; the biggest mistake we admit is Libya, letting HRC talk us into liberating Libya. Welcome Isis! We made a sensible treaty with the Mullahs in Iran, we instituted half of a health plan for an ungrateful people, we are well spoken, we have a pretty wife and two pretty daughters, and a good enough tan to protect against some of the consequences of the destabilization of the environment, and there, too, we did the best we could, under the usual ideal circumstances. What astonishes me most is that a sensible agenda should have engendered.... such unanimous Pooplikan opposition. What - in many ways - such a dreadful country this is! </b></span>SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-76965622221778761002016-11-11T12:55:00.001-08:002016-11-11T12:55:24.538-08:00A COMMENT ON REMNICK'S "TRUMP AS AMERICAN TRAGEDY<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>With all due respect to your piece on the American Tragedy that the election of The Great Huckster represents, it is my feeling that the event is merely yet one further manifestation of an ongoing tragedy whose origins may lie as far back as the 1953 overthrow of Mossadegh that was followed by the overthrow of the Guatemalen government, letting the French hang in the wind at Dienbenphu, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Vietnam War, the Carter/Brezinsky destabilization of the 25 million people strong Afghanistan (throwing a country of that size to the dogs of war, with further consequences yet to come); the elections of fascistically inclined demagogues like J.F.K., Ronald Reagan, the two Bushes and of Barrack Obama, who ran on the platform „Yes We Can” while not many voters I expect expected it would mean the retention of his predecesor’s National Security and Economic Team, or that Obama would become a coolest killer from Chicago yet, and yet be admired as civilized, well-spoken, datable by your daughter, everything that Donald Trump is not – i.e. the difference is one of class, and and so you are quite willing to disregard his criminal acts (of omission as well as commission) in foreign and domestic affairs, lesser though they be than those of many of his predecessors! Body counts are lower! Hitler Jr. killed only one tenth as many Jews as Hitler Sr.! At the New Yorker you can be a war criminal with class like Obama but not a crude s.o.b., the vilest of the vilest scumbags out of Roy Cohn, like Trump or a war criminal like George Bush (war criminal by the standard of the Nuremburg tribual, or United Nation), which no tribunal will invoke or enforce, Bhoutus Bhutus Gali has no recourse over the U.S. Imperium and we don' apologize! Analogously, HRC (who - like you - was either so stupid - or other-Freedom-fry- directed as only Americans can be - as to believe that Old Badass Saddam Hussein - defeated, supervvised, sanctioned - might pose a threat even if he had one or the other wombat of mass distruction - or fantasize of atomic weapons - and be as gullible and righteous not just once but a second time as in the case of Libya, and dream of doing it yet again in the instance of a Syria that, ultimately, was destabilized into internecine warfare as a consequence of the American Iraq adventure – democracy is, as was 19th century Christianity, a horror that humanity hyenas impose by force of arms, while yet, say since 1945, no imperium has killed a many human beings as has the United States.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 28.2667px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> Re: BLACK LIVES MATTER & THE CLINTON INCARCERATION ACT & CONSEQUENCES</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b><span style="line-height: 28.2667px;">In the mid-1970s, editor at Continuum Books/ Seabury Press I was fortunate to publish DRUGS AND MINORITY OPPRESSION by John Helmer (1975) (See the Kirkus Review @<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/john-helmer/drugs-and-minority-oppression/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.kirkusreviews.<wbr></wbr>com/book-reviews/john-helmer/<wbr></wbr>drugs-and-minority-oppression/</a><wbr></wbr>)</span></b><span style="line-height: 28.2667px;"></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 28.2667px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"> which found that suppressing the newly liberated slaves was linked with the criminalization of drug use. Meanwhile, more than a century later, with African-American ghettos in most major and smaller American cities, both the suppression of drug use – for pleasure & to suppress pain of all kinds - and the incarceration of African-American continues while simultaneously there has developed a black criminal underclass, sort of like the Japanese Yakuza, that is in and out of jail. (The number of incarcerated African-Americans actually exceeds the number of slaves at emancipation.) The underclass that is in and out of jail did not exist at the time when slavery ended, did not come into existence until large numbers of African-Americans started to live in ghettos in the cities, were the poorest paid and first laid off. Thus these gangs have a history and have reservoirs that replenish them generation after generation; that is their college, post-graduate education in criminality.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b> As editor of Rober Kalich’s THE HANDICAPPER </b><a href="http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-handicapper-or-adventures-in.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://artscritic.blogspot.<wbr></wbr>com/2015/10/the-handicapper-<wbr></wbr>or-adventures-in.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b>and one day I happened to be taken along to meet the head of the Jewish Mafia, Abe Margolis, and who would happen to be there but </b><b>the head of the black mafia in New York, </b><b> all that was missing at this fine Fifth Avenue venue with Louis IV furniture, was the Italian equivalent ( whom I then met at “Abe’s Place” on Third Avenue); Abe's brother Robbie was known as Frank Costello's best friend. I forget the name of the black fellow, the year is 1978 or thereabouts, he was arrested of course, and so was Abe. The Jewish mob gambled on college basketball, Robert Kalich their handicapper, novelist! Editing the book meant $ 40 K for Urizen Books. The lives of editors take adventurous turns, don't they? It is/was for the black mobsters that the black kids sell drugs. So the current discussion/ controversy, as far as I am concerned, is what? Meretricious? Out to lunch? </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">President Clinton’s accommodation to Reaganism, his crime bill of the 90s, to put masses of “predators into jail,” a law that meanwhile has been used and not only by Black Lives Matter to attack his spouse's presidential campaign, was the usual kind of superficial stop-gap American response to a problem that can only be solved or ameliorated over the course of several generations of assured living wages for all impoverished Americans.</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Helmer begins by questioning both the popular wisdom and psychological theories about addiction, but this is not a wide open polemic like Szasz' Ceremonial Chemistry. Instead this sociological analysis focuses on Helmer's contention that narcotics use has for the most part been concentrated among the working class, and that the war on drugs is and always has been a form of class warfare. The second half of this argument is the most convincing. Tracing the rise of public concern over Chinese opium indulging, Mexican-American marijuana smoking, and Black cocaine and heroin addiction, Helmet levels a barrage of statistics to demonstrate a connection between campaigns to stamp out the drug menace and downturns in the business cycle and/or minority group inroads on a limited job market. Helmet isn't as clear about why narcotics should be a primarily working class phenomenon. There are hypotheses--such as the frustration of unemployment and the flooding of the market by drug speculators (Chinese businessmen paid wages in opium during the mid 19th century), but the lack of information on hidden narcotics habits among the upper and middle classes makes the argument problematic. While he is an apparently prodigious researcher, the author doesn't always define the exact scope of his argument and he extrapolates rather freely from his data. Obviously he is on to something, but his model of the dynamic interaction among economic conditions, drug use and law enforcement policy remains fuzzy.</span></b></span></div>
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SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-38404533605640786942015-07-07T09:42:00.000-07:002015-07-07T09:42:06.577-07:00/bernie-sanders-and-the-american-mainstream/I tried to re-blog but it's not working thus<br />
here is the link to Jay Bookman's fine piece<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">and then said, “this is the end,” </span></b></span></span></div>
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indeed, it was the beginning of the end of Germany.</span></b></span></span></div>
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of the realization of the inception of a great tragedy Canaris yet
managed to be <i>annoyed</i> that Hitler had used the very Polish
uniforms that his service had been employed to provide, to stuff some
German criminals into and kill them as alleged Polish “weapons of
mass destruction.”</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Bush,
Cheney, Rummie, Wolfies et al's knowingly false and long-planned 2003
conquest of Iraq can be said to mark a similar beginning of an end,
in this instance of an actual empire, not of a wanna-be. </span></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">However,
one could hold that the beginning of this end lies even further back
and had its inception with Carter/ Brzezinski's destabilization of
Afghanistan, to draw Russia into a bear trap – imagine that:
tossing a country of 25 million to those dogs of war! And then
creating the Mujahedin and equipping them with Stingers to wound the
bear! And then abandoning the Mujahedin! </span></b></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">Or,
if you want to go all the way back , you could point to the idea that
“containment” meant to go against the tide of history and assume
the fractured European imperialist impulse and bed with everY evil
mother fucker in the world. </span></b></span></span></div>
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the idea that “the United States” might have taken an
alternative path is foolish.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">The end will not be as protracted as
that of the Roman empire, yet in similar fashion it will be a <i>Zugzwang </i>during which it will rush from one site of warfare to
the other. Domage.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">The
Geopolitical Monster Michael Roloff.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: #ffff00;">in
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SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-12487060885518497492013-08-30T19:46:00.001-07:002013-08-31T04:26:32.513-07:00 A COMMENT ON THE SYRIAN SITUATION + NY TIMES DISCUSSION <span style="background-color: orange;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/world/middleeast/john-kerry-syria.html?hp">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/world/middleeast/john-kerry-syria.html?hp</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange;"><big><b><big> I notice a furious all around debate yet feel entirely frustrated for lack of immediate details and historical context, e.g, </big></b></big></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange;"><big><b><big>David Rief's piece in the New Republic that references a lot of them </big></b></big><br />
<big><b><big><a href="http://click.newrepublic.com/email/v1/click?v=3&e=f18dQhb0S65M1PNfs.VLZBZ683KP7VW2pJbqy6BL9F2W87hR1Q3QJ5HJW1mCkMb8JZdFnW4NY.tv8NQrh3W7vJmpp6p8SJVW59yJW_8mPD0bW3Q79T_3n_bzCW40N27T7SQlRBVnfRSP32D9ygW1mkrTt1yYyWBW6CFgD83nqtmzW8vqdSR1k4k7rW65dsG_1W6nDrN5W3VFmZl5NCW4Q9cWT2p5Y5TW6fJDQw5v0dtLW8_Vjjt7JNz3cW3g_GKW4tbQBvW5gj9JR8FSczXW6MwlLy4d0.7nW4P.5SG15sTs8102">http://click.newrepublic.com/email/v1/click?v=3&e=f18dQhb0S65M1PNfs.VLZBZ683KP7VW2pJbqy6BL9F2W87hR1Q3QJ5HJW1mCkMb8JZdFnW4NY.tv8NQrh3W7vJmpp6p8SJVW59yJW_8mPD0bW3Q79T_3n_bzCW40N27T7SQlRBVnfRSP32D9ygW1mkrTt1yYyWBW6CFgD83nqtmzW8vqdSR1k4k7rW65dsG_1W6nDrN5W3VFmZl5NCW4Q9cWT2p5Y5TW6fJDQw5v0dtLW8_Vjjt7JNz3cW3g_GKW4tbQBvW5gj9JR8FSczXW6MwlLy4d0.7nW4P.5SG15sTs8102</a>It It appears that the U.S, has been trying to destabilize the Syrian government since the days of G.W. Bush's Iraq adventure.<br />
So this then is what you get! <br />
Syria had a Ba'ath type socialist government although it appears not as
perverted as Saddam Hussein's became. Bashar al-Assad, a trained
ophamologist, suceeded his father Hafez upon that man's death in 2000. </big></b></big><b><big><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad</a></big></b><br />
<big><b><big>Whatever I read, pro or con intervention, of whatever
degree, however agrees, in the highest moral dudgeon, that the Assads
are the equivalent of "old badass Saddam" - as compared to the somewhat
differentiating reportage of the ongoing ground conflict (s) of the
insurgency - its various foreign backers and components, Islamist and
Alawite, Shiite and Sunni factions. <br />
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Does a government have the right to defend itself against an insurgency?
Especially insurgencies sponsored by various foreign interests that
wish the country to disintegrate? <br />
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Now specifics. It is said that the Obama government has electronic
evidence of an Assad defense minister who is upset at the carnage
wrought by the poison gas attack. Who recorded or overheard this
conversation, where when, quite aside the interpretation of the
evidence. According to Leon Wieseltier in the New Republic Dexter
Filkins of the New York Times has evidence of 35 different poison gas
attacks on the part of the Assad regime. </big></b></big><br />
<big><b><big><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114488/leon-wieseltier-chemical-weapons-syria?utm_campaign=topic-email&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10139816">http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114488/leon-wieseltier-chemical-weapons-syria?utm_campaign=topic-email&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=10139816</a> </big></b></big><br />
<big><b><big>What if any reason does the Assad regime have to target a neighbourhood, that neighborhood<br />
in Damascus? Was / is this an opposition hotbed? And if not, was this event an accident<br />
as the overheard conversation might lead one to believe?<br />
Another point: is Assad's Ba'ath regime so entirely evil that in fact
there needs to be regime change with all the consequences of regional
spread of warfare that such a decision entails?<br />
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<br /> </big></b></big></span>SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-26690738227366760902013-05-12T19:01:00.002-07:002013-05-12T19:01:28.168-07:00malte-herwig-flakhelfer + struck/ keuschnig rezenzion <br />
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Jemand der folgendes schreibt</b></big> "<span style="background-color: #f8f8f4; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">Die
Interpretationen Herwigs sind stimmig und mit Virtuosität
vorgebracht; die Methode kennt man aus seiner </span><a href="http://www.glanzundelend.de/Artikel/abc/h/herwig_handke.htm" moz-do-not-send="true" style="background-color: #f8f8f4; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" target="_blank">Handke-Biographie </a><span style="background-color: #f8f8f4; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">»</span><a href="http://www.glanzundelend.de/Artikel/abc/h/herwig_handke.htm" moz-do-not-send="true" style="background-color: #f8f8f4; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;" target="_blank">Meister der Dämmerung«</a><span style="background-color: #f8f8f4; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333015441895px;">, in der er auch
wie ein Philip Marlowe das Werk nach biographischen Verwundungen
und versteckten Bekenntnissen absucht. </span>" <b><big>dem,
dessen Urteil ist leider nicht zu trauen. Denn in dieser und
vielen anderen Hinsichten, strotzt Herwig's Handke Buch nur so
von Fehlleistungen - Sammeln, aufstoebern kann er, guter
"Gumshoe" ist er; Verstaendis von Literatur und ihrem
Zusammenhang mit dem Leben des Autor, eigentlich nicht
vorhanden.</big></b><b><big> Und dass er Nachrichten.at mit
einem 60 K Klage droht damit sie die Colbin Rezension
zurueckziehen - damit hat Herwig sich selbst zerstoert! Und
dass Struck/ Keuschnig der doch viel sich mit Handke
beschaeftig das nicht bemerkt... Struck/ Keuschnig laesst ja
auch keine wirkliche Kritik an seinen eignem Zeug zu!<br />
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<b><big><a href="http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/full-length-review-of-herwigs-handke.html" moz-do-not-send="true">http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/full-length-review-of-herwigs-handke.html</a><br />
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</big></b><br />
<b><big><a href="http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/marie-colbin-review-of-herwigs-meister.html" moz-do-not-send="true">http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2010/12/marie-colbin-review-of-herwigs-meister.html</a><br />
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Was die Flakhelfer betrifft, wenn man sich wirklich nur
patriotisch gegen die Luft Annihilierung aufgerafft hat, ihre
sonstige Unwissenheit ueber das Crimen Regime ist leicht zu
entschuldigen. Ich haette es auch als 8-jaehriger! Wurde aber
nicht vor die Wahl gestellt, und ich hasste den einzigen SS
Mann den ich kannte, den Volkschul Lehrer, und die Eltern
haben nur durch groesstes Glueck ihre Gestapo Inhaftierung
wegen ihrer Teilnahme am 20ten Juli ueberlebt. Und da sie seit
1934 im Widerstand waren ganz schnell zur Partei um gut
getarnt zu sein. <br />
</big></b><br />
<b><big><a href="http://www.lukasverlag.com/neuerscheinungen/titel/317-gestapo-im-op.html" moz-do-not-send="true" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.666666984558105px; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">http://www.lukasverlag.com/<wbr></wbr>neuerscheinungen/titel/317-<wbr></wbr>gestapo-im-op.html</a><br />
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Es hat wohl in vielen Faellen, wie Grass, mit Scham und sich
schaemen zu tun, und Dummheit. Erstmal als 17 Jaeriger sich zu
der Waffen SS zu schleusen zu lassen , und dann so dumm zu
sein es nur ganz spaet im Leben zu gestehen und damit viel zu
verspielen - Scham scheint ein grosser Grund dafuer,
hoffentlich auch Scham fuer die Dummheit, und dann so
pathoshafte und ueberhebliche Gedichte wie das Netanjahu /
Lieberman Israel Gedicht!.</big></b><br />
<b><big><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.333333015441895px;"><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.194443702697754px; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html" moz-do-not-send="true" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://goaliesanxiety.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-<wbr></wbr>grass-what-must-be-said.html</a></span></b><br />
Was sollte denn leichter sein Netanyoo-Liebermann als
Fascisten zu bezeichnen, die zufaellig Juedisch sind? Die
Spitze des Amerikanischen Neo-Con Faschismus die es ohne
Amerikanische Unterstuetzung es kaum geben wuerde?<br />
<br />
Ihr Michael Roloff<br />
</big></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.glanzundelend.de/Artikel/abc/h/malte-herwig-flakhelfer.htm" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.glanzundelend.de/Artikel/abc/h/malte-herwig-flakhelfer.htm</a>
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<br />SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-65278299975671581002013-03-22T10:31:00.002-07:002013-03-22T10:31:19.236-07:00THE IRAQ WAR ANNIVERSARY<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">THE IRAQ WAR
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Allessandra
Stanley’s NY Times review of the Dick Cheney documentary<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: lime; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/arts/television/the-world-according-to-dick-cheney-on-showtime.html?ref=arts">http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/03/15/arts/television/the-world-according-to-dick-cheney-on-showtime.html?ref=arts</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">has
it that that truly miserable man “snookered” Dick Armery the then, 1993, leader
of the House Republicans, into supporting the “war resolution” by telling him
that old Bad Ass Saddam Hussein, the
U.S. Government’s once favored s.o.b., had the capacity to put a nuclear bomb
into a suitcase – and if Cheney actually did this, but also if not - for cause at any of the many
events - elicits in me the idea to pack this stupid monster into an old suitcase
and dump him in the Sea of Araby for the there sharks, whom the body of Ossama
Bin Laden has helped develop a taste for flesh of evil, who ought of course
have been put on trial as ought Cheney and his “mission accomplished”
accomplice, who certainly accomplished the ruination not just of Iraq but of
the U.S. economy. – These men are as evilly stupid as Hitler and Co. who
invaded Poland under false pretenses in 1939, whereupon the head of German
counter-intelligence, which had provided the Polish uniforms into which Hitler
& Co stuffed some disposable German criminals prior to murdering them as alleged
Polish soldiers, Admiral Canaris is said to “have blanched” and said “this is
the end.” Is there or was there anyone as foresighted in the so-called U.S. intelligence
services?<br />
Whom do we have to blame for having had Bush II as president? Anthony
Scalia - who signalled how he would vote even prior to the Florida case
ending up in the Supreme Court. Let us not forget our forever Anthony
among the cavalcade of shame.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Rumsfeld’s
first thought upon 9/11 is reported to have been that “Iraq has the better
targets.” Were similar brilliant propositions coursing through George W. Bush’s noggin as he was reading, to
some kids, for five minutes, that children books about goats during the 9/11 attack? Bombs away,
Rumsfeld! Bombs away Wolfowitz! Has there ever been as cowardly a terror
campaign as Uncle Sam’s “shock and awe?” of a country that had just lost a war,
that was quarantined? Has there ever been a greater worldwide terrorist than
Uncle Sam and his 1000 + and expanding bases, the marines in the middle of Australia? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There
is a New York Times editorial at the anniversary<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: lime; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html?hpw<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">decrying
– rather belatedly, no? - the Iraq war and warning of a repeat of this world
historical crime by attacking Iran;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and
here a link to all their editorials and
opinions including all those CIA/BROOKINGS Michael O’Hanlon updates that Auntie
featured for years on end!<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: lime; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?vertical=opinion/#/iraq+editorial/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/relevance/opinion/<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">a better record of this infamy + links can be found at Tom Dispatch<br />
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and
a day or so ago Auntie reports that those politicians, of both parties, who
are still in power in D.C., were largely silent, no comment on the anniversary.<br />
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SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-73561499956658821012013-02-25T13:31:00.002-08:002013-02-25T13:31:39.268-08:00OPEN LETTER TO CHRIS HEDGES'S COURAGE TO RESIST<span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/the_courage_to_resist_20130224/">the_courage_to_resist</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><big>D</big></b><span><b><big>ear
Chris Hedge</big></b><span><b><big>s,<br />
<span><span>The year<span>
is 2013 I b<span>el<span>ie<span>ve and I must c<span>onfess
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></big></b></span></span></span><b><big><br />
</big></b><span><b><big><span><big>t</big></span>his
is a pretty pathetic piece t</big></b><span><b><big>hat
</big></b><span><b><big>you </big></b><span><b><big>have </big></b><span><b><big>delivered
yourself of -</big></b><span><span><b><big>a once again
warmed <span>up</span> stor</big></b><span><b><big>y about von Stauffenberg.<br />
<br />
</big></b><span><b><big>I happen
to be the child of two conspirators
who survived the siege of<br />
</big></b><span><span><b><big>Berlin in</big></b><span><b><big> t</big></b><span><b><big>he</big></b><span><b><big>ir respective
Gestapo prisons in sp</big></b><span><b><big>ring 1945<br />
<br />
<span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lukasverlag.com/neuerscheinungen/titel/317-gestapo-im-op.html" moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.lukasverlag.com/neuerscheinungen/titel/317-gestapo-im-op.html</a></span><br />
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</big></b><span><b><big>and
later in life was suffic</big></b><span><b><big>iently </big></b><span><b><big>intrigued
to look at the
entire</big></b><span><b><big>ty<br />
</big></b><span><b><big>of
the resistance
to Hitler, and
also how he </big></b><span><b><big>came
to power, and
then<br />
</big></b><span><b><big>seized
the
dictatorship.<br />
<br />
<span>The
initial and
forever
consistent
resistance was
on the part of
the <span>C</span>om<span>munist
party, <span>who
also held
together best
when impr<span>isone<span>d<span>.<br />
<br />
<span>H<span>ere
is the list,
all <span>y<span>ou
had to do was
use Googl<span>e!</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_aller_Attentate_auf_Adolf_Hitler" moz-do-not-send="true">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_aller_Attentate_auf_Adolf_Hitler</a></span><br />
<br />
<span>T<span>heir
attempt at
Hitler<span>'s
life <span>in t<span>he
FAMOU<span>S
Munich Buerge<span>r</span>braue
Beer Cellar
att<span>empt <span>only
failed because
it was fo<span>ggy
and Hitler
took to train
b<span>ack
to <span>Berlin<span>,
instead of wa<span>iting <span>f<span>or
the f<span>og
to lift so as
to take th<span>e
plane. <span><span><br />
<br />
<span>I<span>n
1938 the Swiss
seminary
student Ma<span>urice
Bavaud h<span>ad
inf<span>iltrated
the anni<span>versary <span><span>of
the 1923 coup
attempt d<span>ur<span>ing
the Munich <span>Octo<span>ber
marchby, but
did n<span>ot
shoot <span>because
he was afraid
<span>he
might also
kill Goeb<span>bels
and Himm<span>ler.
The year is <span>1938.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></big></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b><big><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br />
<span>I
happened to
have
translated
Rolf Hochh<span>ut's
Bavaud bio for
Little<span>, Br<span>own
a<span>bout
<br />
<span><span>30 <span>ye<span>ars
ago. It was <span>torture<span>!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span>In
1938 CAnaris <span>and
the Abw<span>ehr,
<span>German
counter
intelligence,
were ready to
move <span>the
resistance w<span>ithin<span>
part of the <span>German
ar<span>my
goes back to
1934<span>, as
does my
parents, <span>for
a<span>mong
imme<span>dia<span>te </span></span></span>reasons <span> my
grandfat<span>her's
Werner von
Alvensleben
hav<span>ing
been on the h<span>itlist <span>during
the Ni<span>ght
of the Long <span>Knives.</span></span></span><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span>In
1942 the Rote
Ka<span>pell<span>e
was dis<span>covered<span>, a
<span>big
wave of
executions.<br />
<br />
<span>I
spent a lot of
ti<span>me t<span>he
Institute for
Zeitge<span>schichte
[c<span>ontemp<span>orary
history]<br />
<span><span>in
Munich
researching <span>for
a biograp<span>hy
of Oberst
Grosskurt,
Canaris's
right ha<span>nd<br />
<span>man,
w<span>ho h<span>owever
<span>w<span>as
ca<span>pture<span>d at
Sta<span>ligrad
and died as a
Russian p.o.w.<br />
<br />
<span>The
<span>20th
of July
assassinat<span>ion
attempt <span>at
the Wolf's
Lair occurred
<span>on
the property<br />
<span>of <span>my <span>Uncle<span>, <span>Hein<span>i
von <span>Lehndorf,
who meanwhile
had become the
courier for
the<br />
<span>co<span>nsp<span>irators,
and was pro<span>mptl<span>y
killed. <span>I
grew up wi<span>t<span>h
his kids, the
m<span>ost
famous<br />
<span>of
whom <span>became
Ver<span>ou<span>chka.<br />
<br />
<span>If
your piece i<span>s
meant to be
analogous to
the current
situ<span>ation,
or perhaps<br />
<span>to<span> the
<span>ongoing
<span>U.S.
imperiliast
semi-fascist w<span>ay
of being, I -
who tend<span>s to<span>
regard t<span>he
world thrugh
the eyes of a
roman<span>tic</span>
WW II consp<span>irat<span>or !
- </span></span></span></span></span>would
say it misses
the spot.<br />
<span>What
would be
needed would
be the kind of
g<span>eneral
di<span>saffection
of<span> the
ar<span>med
forces <span>with
the dictator.
I see little
of that here,
rather the <span>op<span>posite,
the <span>forever<br />
<span>p<span>ossib<span>ility
of the se<span>izure,
not in Latin
American
fashion<span>, <span>but
gradua<span>lly
of militar<span>y<br />
<span><span>interests
of the p<span>owers
<span>of
govern<span>ment.
Emergencies<span>,
emerge<span>n<span>cy
laws. A<span>s
long as <span>you
and <span>I <span>and
<span>Tom
Englehardt can
get on <span>our
s<span>o<span>ap
boxes and
procl<span>aim
the truth we
do not pos<span>e <span>a
threat to <span>the
<span>powers
that be.<br />
<span><span>St<span>a<span>y
cool, stay
dry!<br />
<span>Best
Michael Roloff<br />
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<span style="color: #000099;"><big><b><big>THIS STATUE, MADE EITHER OF<br />
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[1 URANIUM-ENRICHED IRAQ-WAR-DERIVED ORDNANCE<br />
[2 STEEL ALLOY, <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc">ENCHROMED</span><br />
[3 PLAIN CAST IRON or<br />
[4 DEGRADED, POCK-MARKED ALUMINUM<br />
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IN THE ORDER OF VOTES RECEIVED<br />
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a) One vote for <u>Kermit the Frog</u><br />
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b) which vote I suspect was meant to be for the<br />
man who in honor of the extra-ordinary long-lasting
destabilizing<br />
"Ziggy" effect that his actions in the early 1950s had, and
despite<br />
the passage of time, and the inertness of the national
memory, went to<br />
KERMIT THE ROOSEVELT who brought you the overthrow of <u><span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Mossadegh</span></u>,<br />
the installation of the Shah of Shahs and you remember the
rest and the<br />
great love that the "Great Satan" enjoys - 32 votes.<br />
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c) then the person for whom the award is named, <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;">Zbigniev</span> "Ziggy"<br />
Brzezinski received hundreds of votes, of course, for his
and Jimmy Carter's<br />
destabilization of Afghanistan in 1979. Often jointly with
CIA Casey who<br />
did his part to create the world wide Mujaheddin to fight in
the nicely<br />
destabilized Afghanistan - which is why the award takes the
shape of a <br />
dog - a country thrown to the "dogs of war."<br />
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d) But by far the overwhelming number of votes went to<br />
"MOTHER" - the mother of invention of destabilization, the<br />
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY - because it has been uniquely
able to<br />
create never-ending havoc, and propel "history" from one
fiasco<br />
to the other. Its "realistic" "intelligence" gives stupidity a good name!<br />
As soon as the U.S. Senate confirms "Torture & Drone"
Brennan -<br />
that is, pro-forma - after a bit of the usual song and dance -<br />
he will receive the mold from which the original was cast<br />
so that he can create decal-sized replicas for the boys and
girls at Langley. -<br />
Its weight of course varies depending on the metal. The
Uranium<br />
enriched pin comes in at 2.3 ounces, the aluminum,
pockmarked and degraded,<br />
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The ordinary citizen can obtain these pins from </big></b></big><br />
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subsidiary shop in Truth & Consequences in
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after first paying the appropriate deferential visit to the
neighboring Rio Grand hamlet, Elephant Butte<br />
where Rudolf Guiliani has a shoveling shop.<br />
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</span>SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-12617140322390191162012-12-13T10:06:00.001-08:002012-12-13T10:06:13.842-08:00 NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR THE "ZIGGY"... <h3 align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><big>NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR THE "ZIGGY"...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></big></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><big>AWARDED IN THE THE HONOR AND NAME OF THE DESTABIIZER<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></big></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><big>PAR EXCELLENCE OF AFGHANISTAN</big></span></h3>
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<big><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Zbigniew Brzezinski <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></big></h3>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">iMAGINE THAT, THROWING A COUNTRY OF 25 MILLION TO THE DOGS,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">THE MORONIC RUSSIAN BEAR NAMED BREZNEV IN THIS CASE! WITH UNTOLD CONSEQUENCES STILL VERY MUCH WITH US<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">FROM THE MAHGREG TO PAKISTAN AND POINTS EAST</span></h3>
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<big><b><big><br /><span style="color: #333300;">OBVIOUS CANDIDATES ARE:<br /><br />1)</span></big></b></big></div>
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<span style="color: #333300;"><big><b><big>THE C.I.A. for its work in Syria for the past decade - it is showing... ah hem... results!</big></b></big></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300;"><big><b><big>2) Nobel Peace Prize winner President Oh-Bambi!</big></b></big></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300;"><big><b><big>3) Bambi - you never know what a deer is up to these days. Maybe as a Unicorn?P?</big></b></big><br /><big><big><b><br />4) Pr</b><big><small><b>esident Netanyahoo?</b></small></big></big></big></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333300;"><big><big><big><small><b>5) Sanctimonious Jimmy? Ziggy's enabler,<br /> and yet another Nobel Prize for Peace winnner!? All the worst war<br />criminals win them, don't they in our Orwellian world!</b></small></big></big></big></span></div>
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<big><big><big><b><span style="color: #333300;">THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE "ZIGGY," APPROPRIATELY SCRAWNY Russky Wolfhound!</span></b></big></big></big></div>
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<big><b><big>ON THE UDDER HAND, MAYBE A HUNK OF CAMEL DUNG? A bucket full!</big></b></big></div>
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<b><big><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><big><big><big><big>1)
He kept Bush's national security and economic
adviser teams. He did add the Stiglitz wing of
economists, but did not heed it and went with
Geithner wing. With Stiglitz he had the
opportunity to nationalize the bankrupt banks and
other financial gangsters, and for the country to
take control of its finances - finances are not
like the weather - and not have them left in the
hands of Vegas gamblers, and every year or two we
have a major calamity - finances are not the
weather!<br />
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<b><big><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><big><big><big><big>2)
Obama had his "surge", in Afghanistan. He has
become the executioner in chief, who plays cyber
war and concentrates most of the U.S. Navy in the
Persian Gulf. <br />
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of the Mind he<small><small><small><small><small><small><small>
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policies is minimal. Obamacare is a gift to the
insurance companies, just as
Bush's prescription drug law was a gift to big
Pharma. What must have surprised a Republicantype
president was that the nominal Republicans were so
adverse to compromising with him on debt relief.
The national debt incurred by Bush was appr. 10
trillion, it is now 4 trillion more. And the
current President is waging economic warfare
against Iran and has much of the US Navy
concentrated in the Persian Gulf. He helped destabilize
Lybia, the destabilization of Syria has been an
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may be a worse choice, since the only reason he
seems to want the task is because his dad failed
to become president. The consensus of the lesser
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<b><big><span style="font-family: Courier New;"><big><big><big><big>Instead
of either of these great evils find a good
socialist candidate to vote for. Mine is Jerry
White of the Socialist Equality Party - the
Trotzkyites, at least their analyses are powerful!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">Bush-Obama, a.k.a "promise breaker",
promised: "Yes, we can" ..." stay the same" pretty much is
what it turned out to be.</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="background-color: yellow;">1) Obama kept Bush's national security and
economic adviser teams. He did add the Stiglitz wing of economists, but failed
to heed its advice, sided instead with Geithner wing of banksters. With
Stiglitz he had the opportunity to nationalize the bankrupt banks and other
financial entities, and for us, the people, for the country to take control of
its finances - finances are not like the weather - and not have those fates
left in the hands of Vegas gamblers, every year or two a calamity -
finan</span>ces need not be an unending series of tormento tropicals!</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow; color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">2) Obama had his "surge", in
Afghanistan. He has become the executioner in chief, the great
"droner," who plays cyber war and concentrates most of the U.S.
Navy in the Persian Gulf. The Nobel Peace Prize was the give-a-way: major
war criminals are its chief recipients: Hennery the K of Wurstburg on the
Hudson, Sanctimonious Jimmy who destabilized Afghanistan [at
"Ziggy" of Brzezinski's kindly insistence]. Obama helped destabilize
Lybia, the destabilization of Syria has been an American agenda for at least a
decade, but appears to have gone seriously awry - as have all these
interventions going back as far at least as Mossadegh's deposition as
Prime Minister of Iran under dear old Ike, you remember Kermit something or
other, the Frog don't you?*<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">3) For those not
of Texas or of the Texas of the Mind, Obama may be easier on their</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">ears and eyes</span></b><b style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";"> -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">yet the difference</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">in policies is
minimal. </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">Obamacare</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";"> is a gift to the insurance companies as
Bush's prescription drug law was a gift to big </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">Pharma</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">. What must
have surprised a </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">Republicantype</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";"> president was that the
nominal Republicans were so adverse to compromising with him on debt relief -
Bush incurred debt of </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">appr</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">. 10 trillion,
it is now 4 trillion more. And, God forbid that any part of the
one trillion war budget be sequestered! Ah, the state of forever
"national insecurity" that requires that apparatus! The </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier New";">Imperium</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";"> has
incurred so many enemies in the past 50 + years it means "forever
war", forever pork for every porker in each and every congressional
district! <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";"> Romney may be a worse choice, the only
reason he seems to want the task is because his dad failed to
attain the post. However. I don't see that the consensus of the lesser evil
applies in this instance of Tweedledee and Tweedledum.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">Instead of either of these great evils let's have
our French Revolution, a bloodless one that leaves each and every millionaire
with a million for each member of their family. Sufficiente? No? Imagine what a
"stimulus" such a redistribution of wealth would do to mononcle Eco-No-My!
Imagine how sensible it is to give each of the sheeples enough wool so that
they can be successfully sheared!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New";">Find a good socialist candidate. Mine is Jerry
White of the Socialist Equality Party - the Trotzkyites, at least their
analyses are powerful!</span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/appe-a21.shtml<a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/appe-a21.shtml">http://www.wsws.org </a></span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></span><br />
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"Ziggy" for the most successful destabilization. This prize of prizes
is given<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>just once every decade,
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SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-56712769898295457152012-09-11T17:39:00.004-07:002012-09-11T17:39:50.662-07:00RE A 9/11 OP ED PIECE IN THE NY TIMES<br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new, monospace;"><big><big><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />re</b></big></big></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: courier new, monospace;"><big><big><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?ref=opinion">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/opinion/the-bush-white-house-was-deaf-to-9-11-warnings.html?ref=opinion</a></b></big></big><big><big><b><br /><br />Whatever the truth of Mr. Eichenwald's researches,<br />the forever stories about the terrorist attack<br />via Passenger plane missiles of the 9th of September 2011 never mention the Carter/ Brezinsky 1979 intentional <wbr></wbr>destabilization of Afghanistan - imagine that, throwing a country of 25 million to the dogs of war, what's 9/11 compared to that? and subsequently Reagan/ Caseys creation, with help<br />of the infamous Pakistan SSI of the world wide Mujaheddin, the genii that can't be put back in the bottle, the recruitment world wide of the most fantatically intent Islamists! And Brzinsky is still proud of the feat, and Jimmy Carter'<br />won the Nobel prize. The New York Times reporting on Afghanistan and its consideration, that that is the war to fight, have been suffering from all the distortions that flow from such a monstrous<br />act.</b></big></big></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: courier new, monospace;"><big><big><b>Sincerely, </b></big></big></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: courier new, monospace;"><big><big><b>Michael Roloff.</b></big></big></span></div>
SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-48889295393614735682012-05-29T17:07:00.004-07:002012-06-09T18:28:17.482-07:00BLOWING TAPS FOR THE EVER SO REVEALING GRASS CONTROVERSY: WITH FEELING<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> D=Grass as Moral Interventionist-32; E=Poetics-45<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></u></span></div>
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April 4, 2012 the S.Z. [<u>Sueddeutsche Zeitung</u> and in Italian <u>Repubblica</u>
and in Madrid <u>El Pais</u> publish a Günter Grass poem entitled “What needs
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</b><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">A compendium of critical
opinions</span> </span></b><a href="http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-synopsis-of-grass-poem-controversy.html"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-synopsis-of-grass-poem-controversy.html</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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takes</span> <span style="background: yellow; color: #1f497d; mso-highlight: yellow;">http://summapolitico.blogspot/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html</span><span style="color: #1f497d;"><br />
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">THE DEVELOPING CODICIL</span></span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> For a discussion of the
poetics of the poem and the controversy surrounding that aspect, there is</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I could
also follow how the story played in Italy and Spain and in France, but did not.
The above links allow you to survey the battle field, “rife with opinion,
reading is dear!</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua">” <span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;">As I wrote in a comment I left at the
Financial Times [June 8]</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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regurgitation of received opinion at the Minnesota Paper a joint enterprise
with the Christian Science monitor.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> The controversy has reached the provinces and </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">it is time to put it to bed. Links in the archive</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"> </span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It has been a fascinating
controversy, not just for the poem but for the fractures that Grass’s detonator
revealed. The matter is not encouraging.</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Why have I kept silent, silent for too long<br />
over what is openly played out<br />
in war games at the end of which we<br />
the survivors are at best footnotes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It’s that claim of a right to first strike<br />
against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—<br />
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people<br />
on suspicion that under his influence<br />
an atom bomb’s being built. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[German and English as footnote # 1,
at the beginning of Section II]<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Subsequent to this funereal
opening the poem elaborates several times on the theme of silence and no longer
being so, foretells its own damnation for being regarded as anti-Semitic,
contorts itself into contrition not only for his country’s unique crime, [the
self-immolation of a civilization, I would say, from which it will never
recover] but also for the mark of Cain that attaches to him, that he has
assumed; then the text proceeds to provide the good news of German sales of
Dolphin Class submarines, at cut-rate as part of the ongoing reparation for
said irreparable crime, capable of heaving rockets with atomic warheads,
confirmed June 3<sup>rd</sup> by the Spiegel investigative team. </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-german-officials-confirm-submarines-sold-to-israel-can-fire-nuclear-tipped-cruise-missiles-1.434080</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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What was the good man thinking
when he put these various components into his pipe? What was he smoking?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The poem among political poems is
unique of its kind and lands like an atomic dart at no end of news desks; but,
also for its mix of, an American might say, Robert Lowell-like personal
elements with editorial and daily news content, produces confusion,
consternation, instant judgments are passed, and knives are unsheathed. Yet,
you could also find it immediately parochial. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As the University of Marbach
professor Thomas Anz </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=16571"><span style="background: fuchsia; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia; mso-shading: white;">http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=16571</span></a><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">and
see </span><a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/online_abo/forum/forumfaden.php?rootID=144"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/online_abo/forum/forumfaden.php?rootID=144</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">for the
entire discussion there, also the link
to Professor Hinderer’s piece and Esther Dischereit’s comment. </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">Das wenige Tage vor den
Osterfeiertagen erschienene Gedicht „Was gesagt werden muss“ von Günter Grass
hat zu vielen empörten Reaktionen provoziert, obwohl es ungemein vorsichtig ein
Problem aufgreift, das viele andere längst ähnlich angesprochen haben. Wie kommt
es, dass ein ganz offensichtlich in der pazifistischen Tradition der
Friedensbewegung und der Ostermärsche stehendes, auf Völkerversöhnung und
-verständigung zielendes Gedicht derart feindselige Reaktionen hervorruft? Und
zwar genau jene, die es antizipiert und denen es vorbeugend entgegenarbeitet?</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the tract’s most even-handed
assessment - when it became evident that no one seemed to give the text a <i><u>reading</u></i> but only reacted to its
provocative editorial parts – tht the poem is in the tradition of Easter and
Pacifist peace movement. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As the fine professor Walter
Hinderer pointed out, also at <u>Literaturkritik</u>, the poem is not only in
the above tradition but is the secularized version of an Orphic religious poem
and it took yet one further several stellar professor, Detering of Tubingen, to
exercise the poetics of the beast <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cicero.de/salon/guenter-grass-gestischer-rhythmus-prosaische-metrik-lyrische-hochstapelei/48966"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.cicero.de/salon/guenter-grass-gestischer-rhythmus-prosaische-metrik-lyrische-hochstapelei/48966</span></a><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> and point out that, no matter
whether you agree or disagree with the poem’s proposition, it hoes an honorable
poetic tradition, that of Brecht’s arythmic rhymeless free verse <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<em><span style="background-color: magenta; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Frutiger-Italic, serif; padding: 0in;">Über
reimlose Lyrik mit unregelmäßigen Rhythmen</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">it is a text that is full of tension, in its metrics as well in the relationship of
the personal and the objective nature of its subject, war, politics, U-boats,
atomic rockets. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I myself would suggest that
Grass’s verse is lent extra tension with the pathos of its opening and its
general funereal tone, which has Hoelderlin at its back, as became clearer with
the second political poem that Grass issued, toward the end of May, accusing
Europe of being niggardly in its treatment of its patrimony, Greece </span></span><a href="http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article106379438/Europas-Schande-Ein-Gedicht-von-Guenter-Grass.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article106379438/Europas-Schande-Ein-Gedicht-von-Guenter-Grass.html</span></a><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and
here you can hear Grass read it both in German and in English</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia; mso-shading: white;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1PnvcX4G3c</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Put to the side for the time, or forever, whatever easy time you may
have charging Grass with grandiose self-importance: he is TRYING for a
Hoeldernisque earnestness. Hoelderlin, Brecht – a great formality, an
easygoing-seeming free verse, emotionality, </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">objective political
concepts... lie uneasily together. Therefore</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> I agree with Detering and
others that criticism of the <u>poem as a poem</u> begins at that intersection
of subjective elements with the editorial political language and reference to
daily events, and those who have already voted:
you might give the matter more thought, if only for the sake of
political poetry.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> For one matter has not been
addressed, and it lies at the heart of the attacks against the poem: <u>it’s
ambiguity mixed with straightforward entirely unambiguous assertions</u> into a
world ruled by the Manichean dichotomy
friend/ foe. No wonder the defensive aggressive so insecure Netanyahoo &
Co. are so upset! After all, this may be the most effective political poem in
the West in a very long time. And it is for reasons of <u>aesthetic impurity</u>.
I mean, the poem might also screech expressionistically, with ample
justification for the prospect it envisions, and don’t think Grass does not
know the available repertoire.</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">The Grass poem thus conjures out
of the past the ancient rules for what is permissible in poetry and what is
not. Judging by the response of the fairly numerous aesthetes - Gruenbein
[crude], Menasse [unpublishable without the name of its author], Reich-Ranicki
[dreadful], Struck-Keuschnig and many
another - whom the poem rubbed the wrong way for aesthetic reasons – indeed,
aside “old ink” and one or the other touch it is devoid of the accustomed usual
verbal felicities - allowing or forcing them - whatever - to ignore its grave
subject matter - the poem is unsuccessful; it upsets them to such an aesthetic
degree that they dismiss it for that reason. One might get one or the other of
these worthies to concede Grass a few points if they slowed down their reading
to the pace that the poem establishes, but I doubt that anyone of them would
fall sufficiently in love with it to concede its political import. To be upset
and on such a deep aesthetic level is not part of their expectations of what
poetry should do to their pleasure principle. They prefer to be “verzueckt”, as
is Struck-Keuschnig’s want. Which brings me to the proposition, what if the
poem had been as great as one of the great political poems that still
resound? I could go on at some length on
political poetry, since I write it myself, but this link to a fine piece by
Sarah McGuire will have to do <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<a href="http://www.poetrytranslation.org/articles/95"><b><i><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">http://www.poetrytranslation.org/articles/95</span></i></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b><b><i><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In the bye and bye it occurred to
me that the creator of the fabled Oskar Mazerath, himself a person of small
stature, with the weening ambitions of dwarves, might not only be versed in
Brecht’s free verse, but, as small persons need to be, also had learned slyness
from the so sly Bert Brecht. MIGHT, I say, for we may never know what Grass
intended with his most provocative line:</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“a strike to snuff out the Iranian people””<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Most certainly, the Netanjahu/ Liberman government, which Grass then
allowed he had had in mind, had never voiced the intention to snuff out the
Iranian people with a its planned first strike of its atomic facilities. Was
Grass a bit ahead of himself envisioning the final outcome of what started as a
first strike after the oft-reported war games? However, as we know, Israel does
assassinations of Iranian atomic scientists, the American president is into
assassinations himself, for breakfast he goes over the hit-list with his
national security council and approves each killing personally, sometimes no
matter whether child and wife of a presumed “grrist” will be droned to death,
too. Our President is also into cyber warfare “stucknis” or “flame” or whatever
these exotics are called. Here the link to Misha Glenny in the Financial Times
musing on the huge mistake made with this kind of warfare. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6b674600-afc7-11e1-a025-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F6b674600-afc7-11e1-a025-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcomment"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6b674600-afc7-11e1-a025-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F6b674600-afc7-11e1-a025-00144feabdc0.html&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcomment</span></b></a><b> </b><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br clear="all" />
</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The American President playing war games as though he were still a
kid in an arcade. Or it it the Mau-Mau coming out in him now that he is reading
Kagan – you can see where Grass might have taken his poem if he were less
parochially oriented. Grass’s diatribe, for that is what the so composed poem
is too, might easily have been twice as long if had addressed the powers that
be behind the Netanyahu / Liberman gang. And what of it, if the poem does not
subscribe to the going, fussy aesthetic imperialist criteria, what if it is a
bit crude and simple, and intentionally lightly freighted? If only folks were
as upset by the subject it </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">addresses as they are by the form Grass takes. The
immense media effort taken to avert the subject of the poem and to foist
anti-Semitism on to Grass, to make Grass’s youth the subject, and avert the
subject he addresses!</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> However, it is a poem with a shadow… how many
poems have shadows… echoes… some very great ones of course do, too… that
accompanied the new German President, Gauck, to Israel. You can declare a poet
persona non grata, but not his shadow.</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/besuch-in-israel-gaucks-praesenz-11767435.html</span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> What <u>was</u> Grass
thinking or suggesting by his most contentious line? The result of the dissemination
of all that destroyed atomic material? <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The poem is evidently provocative in the extreme, we can’t tell
whether Grass who wrote the poem in a Brechtina manner also absorbed some of
Brecht’s slyness in ending up being enviably provocative. I myself don’t think
so, I think Grass bumbled into a far greater controversy than he had
anticipated, and venture that guess </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">because Grass didn’t tie the links between the US Neo-Cons, the US
Congress and AIPAC and Netanjahu / Liberman into the airtight warmonger
imperialist reprise case as he might have. </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Grass is bringing the news, but it is mostly old news, we’ve been
hearing of the first strike against Iran for years, it would follow two other
first strikes, against an Iraqi and a Syrian atomic reactor, it actually was on
the past January 2012, Netanjahu had just been in Washington in March to pitch
the same game plan. It is old news but for the Dolphin class U-boats and their
ability to deliver rockets with atomic war heads, a capacity just confired by Der Spiegel on Sunday June
the 3rd The puzzling line - </span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><u><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“a strike to
snuff out the Iranian people..”<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">got everyone’s attention but
especially Netanjahu’s, and I am still wondering whether our Tiger Tank turret
gunner would be U-Boat captain may have some secret knowledge…or maybe Bibi
thinks he might have, Bibi and his crowd not merely insecure. A first strike
would lead to a conflagration where the U-Boats fired their atomic warheads? A
first strike that immediately employed nuclear weapons –“let’s not fuss around
if we are going to do it, let’s get it over with at once”? Netanjahu could say
with a clean conscience: it is the Iranians, or A. who has spoken of
eradicating Israel from the map, we have never uttered anything along the line,
especially not against the Iranian people as a whole. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The other bone of contention and
opportunity for the attack dogs were the lines:</span></span><b><u><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“under a
loudmouth’s thumb are pushed into organized cheering” <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Amindebejad may not be the monster that Western propaganda makes him
out to be, he may indeed be more demagogue than monster, yet he is also a lot
more than your Maltese barking from Big Bertha’s lap. He is more than just a
useful idiot for propaganda purposes. The revolutionary anti-imperialist
Islamic fervor that empowers him is not be discounted. Nor ought Israeli
anxiety to be discounted, no matter the degree to which Israeli demagogues
exploit it.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Professor Hinderer points
out in his piece in Literaturkritik that Grass tends to be a bit tendentious in
other poems, too. Professor Suesselbeck, also at this one sane venue, has
pointed out that Grass has been obsessed with an Atomic apocalypse for many
years. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Günter Grass might have
merely written an encyclical along the lines of his final stanza:</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<div align="center" style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Only thus can one give help<br />
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,<br />
all the peoples, neighbor-enemies<br />
living in this region occupied by madness<br />
—and finally, to ourselves as well.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Or been so grandiose as to pass a
“Günter Grass U.N. Resolution.” But in that event </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD A SCANDAL, WE WOULD NOT BE ARGUING ABOUT THE POEM.
It would not have been a successful intervention, a success de scandal that
caused consternation in two governments that are very close</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. None of this would have happened. For in every other respect the
poem’s facts are indisputable! Grass could even have drilled them home far more
forcefully as no end of people are doing instead of taking this funereal
approach. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Or did our old diver[CAT AND
MOUSE] with those Navy connection come on something even more dire? At any
event, warning of the apocalypse appears to have cost him a lot of pathos and
emotional wrenching, whereas you and I might just give a horrendous shriek
instead of putting ourselves through all that art effort. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Utterly, deadly serious, yet sly? Or perhaps
Grass just bumbled into the controversy? Did not mean to be provocative? His
warning </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“the verdict of
“Antisemitism” is well known”</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> would seem to militate against
that supposition. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">My fourth professorial
authority of Germanics, Jan Sueselbeck, also mentions in his piece in Literatur
Kritik </span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=16633" target="_blank"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=16633</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">Was
geantwortet werden muss</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Grass’s poetics lectures at Frankfurt’s Goethe
University in the 90s, finds that Grass cannot be said to be up to snuff of
Adorno’s [always misunderstood] suggestion that poetry could no longer be written
subsequent to the Shoah [my reception of it, and it appeas to be Grass’s too,
is that as a measure the end of civilization is a moment that must always be
with you], and finds that maybe Grass,
although not anti-Semitic, may have “a problem with Jews” as several other
Jewish acquaintances of Grass mention along the way. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><u><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">I have indicated previously and do so once more that I
think it is entirely irrelevant to the subject at hand whether Grass happens to
be either overtly or unconsciously anti-Semitic.</span></u></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">
<u>What he stated, editorially, is first of all something that had been known
for years, so even if an aging SS general stated it, it would still be the case
that various Israeli governments have been contemplating a first strike, and it
is more than likely that President Obama will greenlight such an attack after
the fall elections, so we can gather from Martin Indyk, twice US ambassador to
Israel.<o:p></o:p></u></span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/interviews/2012/05/28-middle-east-indyk" target="_blank"><span style="background: fuchsia; color: #1155cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.brookings.edu/research/interviews/2012/05/28-middle-east-indyk</span></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Sueselbeck also hints that Grass may have notions
about Germans being victims that do not subscribe to the official line. Again,
a matter that may or may not be the case, but is irrelevant, since Grass
envisages a worldwide catastrophe - why hasn’t Grass also been accused of secretly
belonging to a some Christian sect that believes in the “rapture” </span></b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology</span></a><o:p></o:p><br />
<a href="http://finalbookofdaniel.com/secondcoming.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://finalbookofdaniel.com/secondcoming.html</span></a><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">. <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">After all, Schirrmacher of the FAZ </span></b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">(4.4.12</span>)</span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">proceeds
to find a huge secret in the poem because he learned in school that poems have
secrets, and so if you can’t find it, make it up. As Professor Detering says
with marvelous efficiency, the kinds of readings that Schirrmacher and Joffe [see
anon] project into the poem’s back cannot be “falsified.” True, all you can do
is repeat these phantastic suggestions, or make up one of your own. But what an
immense effort to destroy the poem and the poet?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Aren’t we living in a world, at least in the U.S.
where Tony Kushner can turn Brecht’s <u>Mother Courage</u> into yet another gay
<u>Cabaret</u> and everyone is delighted that we can kiss Brecht’s pathos
goodbye as well?<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">=B=<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Context</span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I have more than alluded to the context [s] into which Grass dropped
his bomb shell. Thus a sketch and substantial footnote for the context into
which the Grass poem issued may elucidate why it continues to be an irritant two
month after publication, one that Grass himself keeps igniting with yet another
political poem </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> [</span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">Grass verurteilt in
Gedicht Umgang mit Griechenland - Yahoo ...</span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
Nachrichten Deutschland lesen. Nach seinem
umstrittenen israel-kritischen Gedicht hat sich Literaturnobelpreisträger
Günter Grass in einem neuen Poem zur ...<br />
de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/grass-verurteilt-gedicht-umgang-gr...<br />
"Europas Schande" - Günter Grass
dichtet wieder<br />
Nach seinem letzten, durch Bürger und Medien
zwiespältig aufgenommenen Werk "Was gesagt werden muss" (ShortNews
berichtete), hat Günter Grass ein
...www.shortnews.de/.../Europas-Schande-Gunter-Grass-dichtet-...Grass liest
Gedicht "Europas Schande" | NDR.de - NDR Kultur<br />
Günter Grass mischt sich erneut in die
internationale Politik ein: Der Literaturnobelpreisträger aus Lübeck kritisiert
nun Europa für seine Griechenlandpolitik.<br />
</span></b><a href="http://www.ndr.de/ndrkultur/grass197.html"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia; mso-shading: white;">www.ndr.de/ndrkultur/grass197.html</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia; mso-shading: white;">Gunter
Grass stands by poem about Greece and Europe - KathimeriniGermany's Nobel
literature laureate Gunter Grass has confirmed he wrote a poem which attacked
Europe for its treatment of Greece. The poem, called “ Europe's ...</span><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;"> </span></span></b><a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles.../2012_444146"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia; mso-shading: white;">www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles.../2012_444146</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">]</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the threat I suppose being that Grass will become a kind of
“extra-parliamentary poetic opposition” of one. Just goes to prove I suppose
that a Nobel Prize and a considerable body of work can haunt those in power, we
are reminded of Stalin’s wanting to censor the Shostakovitch symphonies and
many similar attempts through the ages.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">To date, various German attempts to neutralize his poems with satire
have fallen flat, in my estimate, but for a single highly amusing light touch
one on German radio that in a long report on the state of the country merely
alludes to Grass’s endeavor by periodically chiming in “Günter Grass is said to
be writing a poem about it</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">.” </span></span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/corso/1772164/</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> As of this writing early June
2012 – the Israel poem is shadowing the new German president, Gauck’s visit, to
Israel and Palestine. </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In March 2012, Netanyahu came to Washington to receive yet another
green light for a pre-emptive attack on Iran, he had had it once in January,
but it was called off. Election year-wary Obama did not green-light him, but
told him that come what might Israel had the U.S.’s “back”, and as a parting
gift gave him a vase full of Rose Garden daffodils, no, a few plane loads full
of bunker busting bombs. Netanyahu went back to Israel but not before
addressing the U.S. Congress and AIPAC, both organizations backed his war which
you can find recorded and accessible via Youtube and AIPAC.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And just in case anyone forgot John McCain Indian Fighter’s refrain
“Bomb bomb bomb Iran” of four years ago, or the slogan “Wimps go to Bagdad, real
men go to Teheran”, here is our very own Max Boot of the Council of Foreign
Relations this year</span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
</span></b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577130834200656156.html"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577130834200656156.html</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">3-See the extensive Context Footnotes</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">: </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It is the consequences of a then –Spring 2012 - immediate first
strike scenario is what troubled Gunter Grass to launch his I imagine
intentionally provocative intervention. Perhaps he is just a vain aging
showboat as which the fine poet Durs Gruenbein and lots of other home-boys like
Karasak and Rudi Dutchke, whom it afford the opportunity to be back in the news
themselves at least in this fashion, to accuse Grass, saying, Hey Günter, it’s
time to shut up. “Ta geule!” a character in Handke’s latest spectacular novel, THE
GREAT FALL would shout, and magnificently written, his joy in writing makes me
want to live. However, just as that nearly congenital exhibitionist Handke
invariably really has something to show, isn’t just a loudmouth, GG’s wooden
mallet usually hits the big bass drum.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The situation in Israel,
however, to provide just a hint or two,
is more complicated than in the U.S. for Netanjahu and the Netanjahu doctrine.
Far more restraint than from the imperium whose 3 billion dollar year aircraft
vassal Israel, the tail that might wag the dog, is, plus yearly
“supplementals.” Also, negotiations with the Iranians have resumed, whether for
real or merely for show and yet an even better excuse for a first strike –we
can speculate, that is all. BUT HEY, GRASS IS NOT WORKING IN THE DIPLOMATIC
CORPS, HE DOES NOT HAVE THE GRUESOME JOB OF WRITING EDITORIALS, although the
integration of edititorialeeze with emotionally subjective lines… appears to
have been a problem. A pure lyric it sure is not. And where pathos enters the
pathetic fallacy is just one keystroke away.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Within hours of the poem’s publication, nay prior to it, Deryk
Broder [a former chief pornographer of the St. Pauli red-light district in
Hamburg, now working for the Springer Paper <u>Die Welt </u>in Berlin, who – as
he later admitted - had got a stock tip from Munich, and who may even have been
alerted to the poem’s existence by his friend Josef Joffe, editor in chief of <u>Die
Zeit,</u> who had turned down the poem] started the piling on. “</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Educated anti-Semitism.”</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></span><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"> <b>Broder in "Die Welt" (4.4.12)</b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> in</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> DIE WELT. And he continues to two months later. Broder is now in my
maternal ancestral province, in the Lausitz! And he convicts Grass once again of
anti-Semitism because Grass states that Israel is a threat to peace! It appears
the audience was non-plussed by his advice to forget about Auschwitz, and that
the Jews already had. Mr. Broder is a clown, Mr. Joffe is a died in the wool
Nazi I think.</span></span><span style="color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia; mso-shading: white;">http://www.lr-online.de/regionen/weisswasser/Hoert-endlich-auf-euch-zu-erinnern;art13826,3827154#formular</span></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">From Broder the accusation zips
to [or bounces back and forth] to his friend Josef Joffe </span></span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ZEIT (4.4.12)</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[what WAS Grass thinking in even
submitting it to him? Or did he think his name couldn’t be turned down?] to
F.A.Z. co-publisher Schirrmacher </span></span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">F.A.Z. (4.4.12)</span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">,</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to Tobin at Commentary, Heilbrun
at the National Interest, co-founded by
Joffe, to the New Republic who enlist hireable gun J. Herf, to The Weekly
Standard, to the Wall Street Journal, Joffe again, my all-purpose bête noir,
this time in his frothiest Amurrican [see anon], </span></span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304299304577347871489771432.html#</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to Bernard Henry Levy at Huffington who suggested other countries
worthy of peace efforts and for once has no sense of what “immediate” means…
Back to the FAZ who trumpet the allegedly universal U.S opposition to the poem
back to the US which announced the universal opposition to the poem<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/das-israel-gedicht-von-grass/amerikanische-reaktionen-auf-grass-gedicht-eine-ineffiziente-denunziation-11712035.html<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the charge of anti–Semitism bounces, a self-confirming and quickly
self-congratulatory daisy chain, a forever hermetically sealed echo-chamber,
overwhelmed, sought to ruin Grass Easter bonnet bomb – turn it against him,
make him the issue not the issue that troubled him and so many others – it’s
really interesting to follow the time line of this - and not a once was the
poem even quoted, not one line! But in the Atlantic where the poem then stands
accused of not being pretty by the pretty pretty girl who has not the faintest
of the barnacles that attach to it – to Netanyahu in Israel, who condemned the
poem at least a half dozen times, “</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">How dastardly to put Israel and Iran on the same moral plane”, </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">press conferences, interviews, zeroing in on its most contentious
line “</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a strike to snuff out the Iranian people”</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> no matter, no not one iota of a matter or cognizance taken of
Grass’s attempt to self-inoculate himself against the attack writing </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the verdict of “Antisemitism” is
well known</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. No dice! He is declared persona non grata in Israel, a
self-perpetuating echo-chamber, it admits of no opposition, or mention of
disagreement, and comments to that effect are quickly expunged if they happen
to appear long enough for Google to cache them. [As it did mine at the WSJ, but
whose 72 comments where then reduced to 12 with the “revised” version of the
Joffe!] It was a nearly unique experience for me to watch the creation of a
self-censoring bubble. I say “nearly”, because I had noticed something over the
course of a far longer time line with Handke’s impermissible interventions in
matters Serbian, but at that time there was no Google and no Google spiders, I
had to tie 12 search engines together and pretend I was my great grandfather
with his horses and his carriage!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The masses of support that Grass’s poem is acquiring is taken no
notice of, at most a brief acknowledgement of Jakob Augstein writing in Der
Spiegel. </span></span><a href="http://summapolitico.blogspot/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://summapolitico.blogspot/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">contains a list of several dozen intellectuals of real import who
came out to support Grass. In the U.S. among noteworthy publications with
on-line presence, Salon did, so did Mondoweiss, the World Socialist Journal,
Huffington then ran a fine piece by a British “Independent” Journalist. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yet, First Amendment rights for the sealed echo-chambers are intact.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The news spreads to the lower
reaches, Bloomberg, Atlantic, the Daily Beast. Aldaily, allegedly under the
non-censoring auspices of The Chronicle of Higher Education, picks it up and
passes on the dregs… Within four weeks the scandal reaches the provinces where
it will stick the way I found ancient American now de-mode words and
institutions and vehicles stick around in Mexico, not only the <i>yarderos</i>, the clunkers that are bought
by the yard at yard sales, but “unisex” barbershops or, most wonderfully,
expressions such as “okey-dokey” – indeed so much better than the boring “oh
kay” - that it became a fad, that is residual there, in Mulege (Moo-lay-hay) of
which Linda Ronstad sang “<i>besame muchos</i>…”
and where Woody Allen and Madonna scandals become ageless. The little girl at
The Atlantic plaints that this is </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">not the prettiest prose</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/gunter-grasss-controversial-poem-about-israel-iran-and-war-translated/255549/"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/04/gunter-grasss-controversial-poem-about-israel-iran-and-war-translated/255549/</span></b></a><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">but at least provides a translation of the poem, with a bit of
rudimentary reporting. Bloomberg does not beat around the bush <span style="color: #ddd9c3;">“</span></span></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Guenter
Grass, the German writer and recipient of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/nobel-prize/"><b><span style="background: lime; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Nobel Prize</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">in
Literature, brought forth last week an odious little poem that focuses on the
threat to world peace posed by the Jewish state, and congratulates its author
for the courage to point out this truth</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">.” </span></b><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-09/israel-iran-history-holocaust-perverted-in-grass-s-poem.html"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-09/israel-iran-history-holocaust-perverted-in-grass-s-poem.html#disqus_thread</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If Bloomberg does not do the
trick with its description as an </span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">odious little poem </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> there is the FAZ recommended
</span></span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">http://heebmagazine.com/the-poetry-of-gunter-grass/35078<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #262626;">“For
some reason, people still care about what Günter Grass, German author and
winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has to say about things. He wrote
some novels more than fifty years ago that he somehow was able to convince
people were good, even if they were just overwrought and overhyped piles of
nothingness. Germany thinks of Grass as its own Philip Roth, even if he is in
reality just a second-rate copy of Thomas Mann, with cookie-cutter
grotesqueness instead of stiff philistine blathering.”<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Thus the dirty deed done to Grass will persist equally long, I know
that the dirty deed that the allegedly stellar Bob Silvers committed on Handke,</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
<a href="http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2009/12/letter-to-robert-silvers-ny-review-of.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2009/12/letter-to-robert-silvers-ny-review-of.html</span></a><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">or that Robert Wilson of <u>The
American Scholar </u>committed when Handke <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<a href="http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2007/03/b-c-reverse-of-initial-posting-of-open.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://handke-discussion.blogspot.com/2007/03/b-c-reverse-of-initial-posting-of-open.html</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b><span style="background: lightgrey; mso-highlight: lightgrey;"> </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">got out of line with his defense of the Serbs from one-sided blame,
using third stringers J.L. Marcus and Michael McDonald, leads an equally vivid
underground life among the nearly infinite long list of regurgitators of
opinions – say in THE FASTER TIMES [!] universal lethargy in discrete
quantities. Choked by the gossip vine. Effluent breeding weeds in lakes
depriving the water of oxygen. In the instance of Grass it may be that “heeb,”
recommended by the FAZ in their eagerness to find support for their take on the
poem, will have the last word; who needs anti-Semitism if you have “heeb”! It
is not so much the dreadful journalists as the editors who employ them, and the
publishers who employ these editors to commit constant perjury.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fox of course was in on the case
as well</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/23/banging-tin-drum-for-iran-and-against-israel/</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">And here a few other
links<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">COMMENTARY, TOBIN<br />
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/05/gunter-grass-iran-and-anti-semitism/<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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4 NATIONAL INTEREST, HEILBRUNN<br />
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/the-gunter-grass-anti-semitism-debate-6751<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Poor poor poem, written defenseless, no one will engage its
proposition, or Grass’s extraordinary contrition. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But why was I
silent for so long?<br />
Because I thought my origin,<br />
marked with an ineradicable stain,<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> for having been, my opinion,
just another member of the brother horde, another child soldier whom their
fathers send out to war, until too few of them see the light, is ignored. Nay,
the one real Nazi in the crowd who really rubs his nose in his adolescent
mistake is Josef Joffe the virulently hyper-ventilating German journalist
Neo-Con in the highest standing, the suave ingratiating Josef Joffe, as which I
experienced him here in Seattle at the U.W. about a decade ago, co-founder of
the National Interest, member of the Hoover institute in who in my assembly of
the negative takes on the poem <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<b><span style="background: lightgrey; color: #333399; mso-highlight: lightgrey;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333399;">http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-synopsis-of-grass-poem-controversy.html</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">serves as an all purpose voodoo doll, for being the most exorbitant
projector. The best <u>German</u> of the lot was Schirrmacher. “</span></span><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">„</span><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Es ist
ein Machwerk des Ressentiments, es ist, wie Nietzsche über das Ressentiment
sagte, ein Dokument der ‚imaginären Rache‘einer sich moralisch lebenslang
gekränkt fühlenden Generation.“ </span><a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/das-israel-gedicht-von-grass/eine-erlaeuterung-was-grass-uns-sagen-will-11708120.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/das-israel-gedicht-von-grass/eine-erlaeuterung-was-grass-uns-sagen-will-11708120.html</span></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Once more, the excellent Tubingen professor Detering comes to the
rescue of my sputtering prolixity and points out that the phantasmagoric
projections of anti-Semitism and <i>resentiment</i>
with which Joffe and Schirrmacher shower the poem cannot be “falsified”;
indeed, all you can do is duplicate them ad infinitum and <i>ad nauseam.</i> Nor can you possibly defend against them. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Joffe is both clever and vicious
the way he seeks to defuse the various charges of Fascism that it is so easy to
lodge against some Israelis. A suave Spaniel as which I experienced him here in
Seattle, a bit more than a decade ago – oh what sorry level Die Zeit has sunk
to. Yes, if there is a Nazi in the house it is Josef Joffe, the spaniel, the
sucker up to the Neo-Cons as which my antennae spotted him at once at a lecture
here at the University of Washington more than ten years ago,</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">not quite up to Goebbels or <u>Der Stuermer</u> snuff, but a useful
right hand, a good whip. Whereas his pal Heilbrun at<u> The National Interest </u>is
merely inflamed by Grass’s carefully wrought and emotionally wrenched piece,
Joffe hyperventilates in this WSJ piece. If I were Goebbels I’d use him as my
Doberman. There’s a man to my liking, no compunctions! He know where the power
of the world resides and he will be part of a odd coming together of American
imperialist hubris, German guilt and Americanization and Israeli ambitions.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Here </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">point</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> by </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">point</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> comments on the none-too-subtle Joffe: <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">ZEIT (4.4.12) and in</span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304299304577347871489771432.html#<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Nobel laureate Günter Grass, 84, is a </span></b><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">poster boy of
"re-education," </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">America's therapy for post-Hitler Germany.
Or he was. In 2006, this chest-thumping anti-Nazi laid bare his long-concealed </span></b><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">career
</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">in the Waffen-SS. Had Mr. Grass sprung the shocker a decade earlier, his
1959 novel "The Tin Drum" would still </span></b><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">shine forth as a
masterwork, </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">but without the Nobel Prize, which he was
awarded in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Neither has Grass ever been any kind of poster boy, nor
is his gradual enlightenment to where he found himself subsequent to Spring
1945 in any way comparable to the forced re-education that communist regimes
practiced. Or Romney pere’s “brainwashing” to lower myself to Joffe’s level for
the moment.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Joffe is not aware it seems that he does his argument
little favor by characterizing being drafted into the SS for a few months or
even volunteering as a teenager as a career. However, Joffe is just clever
enough, as compared to “heeb” not to demolish <u>The Tin Drum</u> in the course
of his Bombardino Demolition Co. act.</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
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“<i>Just before Easter this year, Mr. Grass
launched a bigger bombshell, a poem titled "What Must Be Said." The
gist: For too long, the poet had been </i></span></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">cowed into silence </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">by what he calls the "verdict of anti-Semitism."</span></i></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Well no, Grass had not been “cowed”, he had been, or the
personae of the poet, had been humbled into a quandary, of being a guilty
German finding himself in a position where he felt he needed to criticize the
successors and survivors of endangering the peace. What one might want to
criticize is the presumptuousness of being “the conscience of his people.” </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
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<b><i>“But
in his </i></b></span><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">dotage</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">, he finally dared speak out against the </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">diktat</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> because Israel was readying a "first
strike" that would "extinguish" Iran and the "fragile world
peace." Germany, though, would "share the guilt" because it was
arming Israel with nuclear-capable U-boats.”</span></i></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“</span></span><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">dotage”:
really, Joffe, you lowlife, must you sink that low? And call agenbite of inwit
“diktat” is on the same gutter level.<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b><br />
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">Thus did the bard
go into battle against "hypocrisy" and "lies." Never mind
that Iran is routinely threatening Israel with eradication. President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad is but a "loudmouth," </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">a
lamb in wolf's clothing”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">“a lamb in wolf's clothing”, Grass is saying nothing of
the kind, and to repeat myself, see above, Grass indeed might have made the
line <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—“ <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Even stronger and less equivocal, but a “lamb’s” thumb
does not push anyone into organized cheering. Mr. Joffe desperately wants to maintain
the fiction that Amindebejad is the same as Iran and perpetuates what even the Israelo
deputy prime minister admits are mistranslations of the Persian, useful mistranslations – and that is what is
“routinely” repeated to justify the planned first strike. </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><br />
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">“Was this
anti-Semitism, as Emmanuel Nahshon, Israel's envoy to Germany, intimated? The
poem, Mr. Nahshon explained, was in the "European tradition" of
sticking the Jews with blood libel</span></i></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"> <i>just
before Passover. Once it was matzo made with the blood of Christian children.
Today, the "Iranian people" were "slated for extinction" by
Israel.</i></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Mr. Joffe might have taken
recourse to his friend Broder, but he needs an authority to create an analogy
out of whole cloth. And he finds a fellow fantast in Emmanuel Nashon who
appears to have no knowledge of Grass pacifist heritage of Christian Easter
custom – as Joffe himself, however does, and of course conveniently ignores
because it would explode his polemic.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">After the
Holocaust, traditional anti-Semitism is out. Jews are no longer fingered as
Christ killers, usurers and despoilers of</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">the Aryan race.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">But Mr. Grass's
indictment is rife with post-Shoah analogues. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Carefully coded</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">, it
pins on the Jewish state what used to be applied to Jews throughout the ages.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">It keeps puzzling me why someone who so manifestly foists
then must accuse someone else of foisting and doing so in “careful code?” Anyhow,
“careful code” would be beyond someone like Joffe!</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">“We are not
talking here about criticizing Israeli policy, a legitimate pursuit. Mr. Grass
now charges Israel with concocting the greatest possible evil</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">: a nuclear Holocaust to be visited on Iran and the
entire world.”</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Well no: Grass does nothing of the kind, again see above,
but envisions a conflict that starts with a first strike developing into,
ending in a nuclear catastrophe. Not that insane a fear to voice I would say
under the circumstances of Nethanjahu and American threats and actions. Again:
Grass is not your usual irresponsible WSJ editorial writer, he is a seer-poet!
Mr. Joffe is stuffing his eyes and ears. </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">“Even as Mr.
Grass touts his "attachment" to Israel, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">recalling the my-best-friends-are-Jewish refrain</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">, he casts the tiny country as an </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">überpower.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Again, Grass does nothing of the kind, however Joffe’s
modus operandi of mischaracterization and then attack of the
mischaracterization continues apace. Grass volunteered to fight for Israel
during the six day war, he has visited and has friends there, and many other
Jews are his friends, whether best or not I would not know.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">“Apart from
threatening the globe, Mr. Grass imagines, Israel </span></i></b><b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">enslaves 80
million Germans<i> </i></span></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">by wielding the Shoah to gouge U-boats out of Berlin and to
suppress "what must be said."<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Herr Joffe as compared to Grass, has not been “smoking”,
he has been taking Peyote at his institute at Stanford! After all, I did my
graduate work there within sight of the Hoover Tower! There are those who create
straw tigers, Mr. Joffe creates straw elephants, and it is not the man Irving
Howe once described to me as dancing like an elephant. And then Herr Joffe says</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">“<i>This is mendacity to
the max, “<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">As indeed it is! To create papier mache elephants out of
whole cloth. Maybe Mr. Joffe would be more gain and usefully employed in a
circus? Or as an entertainer in a madhouse?</span></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">“for critical
coverage of Israel is a staple of the German media. </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">But the falsehood is a necessary part of the indictment</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">. If we could only speak out, insinuates Mr. Grass, we will
save the planet by defanging Israel. By eliminating its nukes through a
"permanent control" regime, we will bring peace to the
"demented" Middle East and "help ourselves" to boot.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Again, Grass says nothing of the kind, and that is why
Murdoch’s WSJ did not see fit to publish the poem side by side with Joffe’s
vile Murdochian garbage. </span></b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">“<i>The motive is
unbearable guilt feelings, </i></span></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">though Germany
has evolved into a model democracy since 1945. How to regain moral worth? By projecting
culpability onto Israel.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; font-family: 'Courier New';">Grass does appear to write out a sufficient sense of
guilt that does not wish to see a repeat of culpability. “Unbearable” [?]–
again Joffe writes things he has not the faintest of. I will stop here. Mr.
Joffe now proceeds to fish and find a number of red herrings, which
unfortunately seem to be real. Let me, from an analytic perspective, say that
“victims do not make for the nicest people.” Otherwise, ask Peter Brooks to
revive “Les Ics”.</span></b><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">"The Germans
will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," runs a quip ascribed to Zvi
Rex, an Israeli psychiatrist. You don't need a shrink to deconstruct this
defense mechanism. Our grandfathers did it, but the Israelis, who won't let us
forget, are just as bad. Three classics are: "They are the new
Nazis," "Gaza is like the Warsaw Ghetto," and "We learned
our lesson, the Israelis did not."<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">Thus, the accounts are squared, with a tidy moral surplus
left over for Mr. Grass and his new friends on the far left and far right. The
good news is that the poem did not play well in the middle. For the past two
weeks, the media have weighed in against the bard, saying "what must be
said" in a very different way: that he had breached a 70-year-old moral
consensus, that he had turned the moral universe upside-down by casting Israel
as aggressor and Iran as victim.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">The bad news oozes out from the underground. Go to the
website of any paper that has run critical pieces on Mr. Grass and read the
comments, thousands of them. By a rough count, 90% cheer Mr. Grass. "At
last!" is but the mildest applause.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">The arsonist has lost the battle aboveground. Yet below, he
is the redeemer who has finally struck a blow against those—Israel, Jewry, the
political class—who rob Germany of dignity and freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">Germany in 2012 is a normal country, a solid liberal
democracy. The norm for Europe is for 15%-20% of the population to possess
opinions labeled by the pollsters as "latent" anti-Semitism. Germany
is not an outlier, but mainstream. Considering the past, that is reassuring.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<em><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">Mr.
Joffe is editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, senior fellow of the Freeman-Spogli
Institute for International Studies and fellow of the Hoover Institution, both
at Stanford.</span></em><b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">A version of this
article appeared April 17, 2012, on page A13 in the U.S. edition of The Wall
Street Journal, with the headline: Gunter Grass's Tin Ear.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As opposed to Susan Sontag’s AGAINST INTERPRETATION the likes of
Broder, Schirrmacher and Reich-Ranicki fly the flag of ONLY INTERPRET, that way
you never lose an argument. Fabuloso! Schirrmacher brilliantly constructs an airtight mental
kennel for himself. I had noticed as much before, on the occasion of the
controversy stirred by Handke’s odd way of seeing to <u>Justice for Serbia</u>
in the early 90s, and its several repeat comings. I think Schirrmacher is a
clinical case. Joffe is something worse, and the sad thing is that he is the
editor of a once stellar weekly that was founded by one of the few members of
my family of whom I can be genuinely proud, Marion Doehnhoff. However, I
congratulate myself of my shit detector.
Joffe here writes exactly as you would expect a spaniel like that to
write</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua">. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Neo-Cons all sought to shout
down, destroy the poem by shouting anti-Semitism, we allow criticism of Israel
the more the merrier, but not from you “you SS careerist”! We don’t care about
your contrition. In your case we see the return of the repressed in all its
Nazi horror,<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">thank you Dr. Freud, we don’t
really like or read or understand you, but thank you for the odd useful concept!
We’ll instrumentalize it as we will every other. It sure comes handy time and
again! Yes, at Pessach the Jews are invariably accused to the worst. To hell with
you and your Easter peacenik marches! Ships passing in the night with few
lights. <u>Grass and his poem aren’t the real story, I don’t think, but why his
opponents are so hysterical.</u></span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> For</span></b><b><u><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></u></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I think I may be the only one to whom it has occurred that it is
entirely irrelevant who points out matters that are publically known – however,
Grass doing so, he stepped on very tetchy toes. Why so tetchy is the question,
isn’t it?</span></span><b><u><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I am not necessarily a fan of all of Grass’s now customary political
interventions. It bothered me when he objected to the Reagan/ Kohl visit to
Bittburg cemetery because 40 SS men were buried there. I thought maybe he’d
agree it was time to “bury the dead.” But perhaps he didn’t because he feels so
dreadful for his own brief youthful SS past. What do I know about how GG really
feels? How many SS-men of any kind have expressed that much shame – nor did he
kill anyone… And I thought Grass was far too trigger-happy when he joined in
condemnation of the Serbs as exclusively responsible. Handke defended him from
having his books burned in Belgrade – of course scarcely anyone in “the west”
recalls the German reprisals against the “Partisans”, for every dead German 100
Yugoslav civilians were shot. One way of making yourself memorable for
generations! Now let’s see whether there will be Israeli book burning! That would complete the
circle, the people of the book burning them!</span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> I happened to agree with
Grass that Germany would have been better off split into two countries, for the
DDR to pursue a democratic socialist course, and not be robbed of its, the
People’s Republic of Farmers and Workers accumulated wealth of their factories
and agricultural co-operatives by the Neo-Liberal West German robbers. And then
the state has to re-start that economy after it has been robbed clean. The
banana eaters certainly received a banana where the great majority did not
anticipate it.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">=E=</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bibi sure was stung! How many poems have been attacked half a dozen
times by a head of state, become the occasion not just for intra but for on-going
inter-governmental acrimony and apologies? Maybe Grass is campaigning for a Nobel peace
prize?</span></span><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">So it is not a question of whether Grass was right or wrong but whether
this is an effective poem or not, and on that score you would have to agree
that it most certainly is, and if you look at the poem as closely as it
deserves to be regarded, and as slowly as its editorial quality appears to have
failed to make people read it, you may agree on that score and see why, also
textually</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Nonetheless, it was judged to be a poor poem:</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></u></i></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Why have I kept silent, silent for too long<br />
over what is openly played out<br />
in war games at the end of which we<br />
the survivors are at best footnotes.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It’s that claim of a right to first strike<br />
against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—<br />
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people<br />
on suspicion that under his influence<br />
an atom bomb’s being built.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But why do I forbid myself<br />
to name that other land in which<br />
for years—although kept secret—<br />
a usable nuclear capability has grown<br />
beyond all control, because<br />
no scrutiny is allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The universal silence around this fact,<br />
under which my own silence lay,<br />
I feel now as a heavy lie,<br />
a strong constraint, which to dismiss<br />
courts forceful punishment:<br />
the verdict of “Antisemitism” is well known.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But now, when my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes<br />
for which time and again it must be tasked—<br />
once again, in pure commerce,<br />
though with quick lips we declare it<br />
reparations, wants to send<br />
Israel yet another submarine—<br />
one whose specialty is to deliver<br />
warheads capable of ending all life<br />
where the existence of even one<br />
nuclear weapon remains unproven,<br />
but where suspicion serves for proof—<br />
now I say what must be said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But why was I silent for so long?<br />
Because I thought my origin,<br />
marked with an ineradicable stain,<br />
forbade mention of this fact<br />
as definite truth about Israel, a country<br />
to which I am and will remain attached.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Why is it only now I say,<br />
in old age, with my last drop of ink,<br />
that Israel’s nuclear power endangers<br />
an already fragile world peace?<br />
Because what by tomorrow might be<br />
too late, must be spoken now,<br />
and because we—as Germans, already<br />
burdened enough—could become<br />
enablers of a crime, foreseeable and therefore<br />
not to be eradicated<br />
with any of the usual excuses.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And admittedly: I’m silent no more<br />
because I’ve had it with the West’s hypocrisy<br />
—and one can hope that many others too<br />
may free themselves from silence,<br />
challenge the instigator of known danger<br />
to abstain from violence,<br />
and at the same time demand<br />
a permanent and unrestrained control<br />
of Israel’s atomic power<br />
and Iranian nuclear plants<br />
by an international authority<br />
accepted by both governments.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Only thus can one give help<br />
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,<br />
all the peoples, neighbour-enemies<br />
living in this region occupied by madness<br />
—and finally, to ourselves as well.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Warum schweige
ich, verschweige zu lange,<br />
was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen<br />
geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende<br />
wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.<br />
<br />
Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag,<br />
der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte<br />
und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte<br />
iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,<br />
weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau<br />
einer Atombombe vermutet wird.<br />
Doch warum untersage ich mir,<br />
jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,<br />
in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten -<br />
ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar<br />
aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung<br />
zugänglich ist?<br />
Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses Tatbestandes,<br />
dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,<br />
empfinde ich als belastende Lüge<br />
und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,<br />
sobald er mißachtet wird;<br />
das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist geläufig.<br />
Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,<br />
das von ureigenen Verbrechen,<br />
die ohne Vergleich sind,<br />
Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt wird,<br />
wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch<br />
mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung deklariert,<br />
ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel<br />
geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität<br />
darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe<br />
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz<br />
einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,<br />
doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,<br />
sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.<br />
<br />
Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?<br />
Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,<br />
die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,<br />
verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene Wahrheit<br />
dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin<br />
und bleiben will, zuzumuten.<br />
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Warum sage ich jetzt erst,<br />
gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:<br />
Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet<br />
den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?<br />
Weil gesagt werden muß,<br />
was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;<br />
auch weil wir - als Deutsche belastet genug -<br />
Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,<br />
das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld<br />
durch keine der üblichen Ausreden<br />
zu tilgen wäre.<br />
<br />
Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,<br />
weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens<br />
überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,<br />
es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,<br />
den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr<br />
zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und<br />
gleichfalls darauf bestehen,<br />
daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle<br />
des israelischen atomaren Potentials<br />
und der iranischen Atomanlagen<br />
durch eine internationale Instanz<br />
von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen wird.<br />
<br />
Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und Palästinensern,<br />
mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser<br />
vom Wahn okkupierten Region<br />
dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben<br />
und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">although what might constitute these stellar reporters criteria we
will never know. The fine and humane
novelist Louis Begley [among those cited earlier] who joined Grass in his
dislike of Netanjahu but can’t see past his memory of the SS [Sturm Staffel] insignia
[Runen], it turns out [</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">“is no more a poem than a porcelain urinal could
become a work of art, just because [French Dadaist artist] Marcel Duchamp
decided to exhibit it as a water fountain,”]</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"> </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hasn’t the faintest about modern poetic conventions or, like many
another, never sees past the poem’s editorial aspects.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Most puzzling was the dismissal,
initially, of the poems poetic qualities, even by writers and poets who might
have seen that it was composed in a Brechtian manner, as Detering demonstrated
quite brilliantly. Not that a Brechtian manner is any kind of guarantee of
quality, but married to a kind of emotional wrenching that a Robert Lowell
would have responded to… and with Hoelderlin’s earnestness…<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">What was or is it in the poem that
made me, too, instantly respond more to its editorial political content, which
for me was not particularly new, but for the Dolphin Class submarines that can
fire rockets with atomic warhead? As life-long political animal my antennae are
tuned to political trouble spots. </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I would submit that the very mention of day to day or world politics in
a poem instantly gets you out of a poetic frame of mind that you don’t even
read this text with the kind of measure it actually imposes</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. You read it the usual way the usual speed reader you reads
editorials, superficially, dismissively, it registers at a different rung.
There is lots of great political poetry in the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Yeats,
Pound’s Cantos are riddled with politics, Auden, Lowell, Brecht, the Spaniard
and Latinos, Celan… I used to be up on contemporary poetry, about 50 years ago
when I had a magazine and there were maybe a dozen magazines literary which you
needed to read to get a sense of that. Now there are hundreds of magazine and a
hundred writing programs that do not produce political poets. Lots of political
writing of all kinds, just not political poems, except for me <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">but none of the magazines I have tried seem to like them, just some
of my politically-minded friends. I am an occasional poet and have written a
bunch of overtly unpolitical poems about the weather in Seattle and my
feathered friends <u>Steeped in Seattle</u> and had a good time writing them. I
would not deign or dare to make an over-all generalization of the many strands
of contemporary poetry, but to say that you find scarcely anything that might
be described as political poetry, that addresses matters of state, of peace and
war.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Initially, I too seemed to think
that its poetic qualities were negligible, but only because the poems politics
got me hot. It wasn’t until Esther Dischereit, who had a finely differentiated response
to the poem’s politics </span></span><a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/online_abo/forum/forumfaden.php?rootID=144#thmsg5"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/online_abo/forum/forumfaden.php?rootID=144#thmsg5</span></a><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">and
in the main archive </span><b><br />
</b><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</span></b></a><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">and I</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">started to dwell on its
versification that I began to realize that Brecht was its godfather, as Detering
demonstrates.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">It has been, with respect to the Grass controversy,
some weeks lacking in humor of any kind. But for</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">author Sibylle Lewitscharoff saying: “If Grass’s text is supposed to
be a poem, then have I, with the help of two or three melodious farts after
having eaten a trout, composed a new St. Matthews Passion,” to which I can only
add, “sweet farts, Sibylle, or I won’t dine with you,” is the only memorable
truly funnee response I have come upon. Now with a second Grass poli-poem, the
one on Greece making the rounds, I notice the poverty of various attempts in
German magazines and papers to do satire. The only good one I came on is not a
persiflage, but alludes with the refrain “and Grass is writing a poem about it”
to a series of less than earthshaking events. It has a nice light touch, it is
not aggressive or forced or klunky as are all the others.</span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/corso/1772164/</span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> And if you read it as slowly
as the poem actually makes you read it, and as Grass reads it you will get a
different sense of it than as a speed-reader who happens on an editorial:
defenses are up, mere words suggesting editorial content are dismissed at once
as poetically impossible, which at least helps explain or suggest an
explanation to the riddle why people instantly shift into their own political
aesthetic sphere. Surfeit, false language. Impossible. </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Which is why there are times that poets resort to “agit-prop” and
provocation.</span></span><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">During a two month focus on this kind of event and story you of
course come upon oddities of all kind </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">in this <i>ayuntamiento</i> of the </span></span><b><i><u><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Cien años de soledad</span></u></i></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">,
the</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">
</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Charenton of the Mind: an infinitude of uninformed<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"> opinions, from the abysm of unrelieved Neo-Con filthy-macnastiest
of a Josef Joffe,</span> <span class="styleberlingantiqua0">the lack of anything
classy but for Fritz Stern in his interview in the FAZ with Felicitas von
Lovenberg,</span> <span class="styleberlingantiqua0">as well as cheap and easy
shots from fellow poets and writers who failed to find any merit in Grass’s
dirge and, like its critics, fail to acknowledge the numerous intellecuals</span></span></b><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b> </b></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<a href="http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/05/defense-of-beast-post-mortem-part-ii-of.html</span></a><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">who took it and the issue it
addressed seriously, and what little sympathy Grass received, but from me for
his awkward emotional exertions,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<a href="http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/05/summary-of-grass-controversy.html"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/05/summary-of-grass-controversy.html</span></a><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Of course Islamic voices chimed
in from all over; mostly supportive but not all; most amusingly from far off
Sri Lanka – such events as</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b></span><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">the Grass brouhaha invariably
elicit sideshow comedies - where Grass became a Jew who criticized Israel, Iran
being portrayed as pure as the virgin Fatima!</span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Then
there are instances such as Gregor Struck-Lothar Keuschnig’s</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<pre><a href="http://www.begleitschreiben.net/wie-waere-es-mit-ignorieren-gewesen/"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.begleitschreiben.net/wie-waere-es-mit-ignorieren-gewesen/</span></b></a><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></pre>
<pre><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">who exists in a world where words like “verzueckt” rule the aviary and who will see the rocket coming at the same time as Mr.McGoo, but who has written favorably and nicely about Handk</span></b></span><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b>e. <o:p></o:p></b></span></pre>
<pre><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b> </b></span></pre>
<pre><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The most, I would say only touching and heart-rending response was the confession of a Jewish survivor and who did so by joining the Hitler Youth [but most of whose family was exterminated] and pretending to be <i>Volksdeutsch, </i>who states that Grass has the right to voice his opinion and agrees with it</span></b></span><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b>:<o:p></o:p></b></span></pre>
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</span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Grass hat das Recht zu solch einer Warnung</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">
Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass Günter Grass den Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefschürfend erlebt hat und mit gerade mal 17 Jahren sogar von der Waffen-SS einverleibt worden ist, hat er aus seiner Lebenserfahrung ein deutliches Recht dazu, solch eine Warnung auszusprechen. Die Tatsache, dass die israelische Regierung ihm ein Einreiseverbot ausgesprochen hat, zeigt eindeutig, dass an Grass’ Warnungen etwas dran ist. Es wäre seitens Israel besser gewesen, zu bestätigen, keine nuklearen Waffen zu besitzen und zu erklären, keinen Erstschlag gegen den Iran ausführen zu wollen. Alles das hat nichts mit dem Holocaust zu tun, sondern es geht einzig und allein um die Erhaltung des Friedens heute.
http://www.badische-zeitung.de/leserbriefe-68/grass-hat-das-recht-zu-solch-einer-warnung--58301213.html</span></b><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></pre>
<pre><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></i></b></pre>
<pre><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Grass has the right to voice his opinion for the very reason that he was part of the SS as a young man and experienced what a world war can be like… It would have been better for Israel not to have atomic weapons and to declare that it will not do a first strike….<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></pre>
<pre><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></i></b></pre>
<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Occasionally, in that wasteland of
officialeese, a private voice peeks through. </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Alas, Mr. Joffe and Co. would that you learn to be so generous in
your understanding!</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></pre>
<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As I fade out from this project and as the scandal putters, but for whatever updates that will be posted at </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></pre>
<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to resume my life in the coal mine, </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">we can observe Grass’s shadow, the shadow of his imperfect but ever so effective, provocative poem accompany the new German President, Gauck, on his visit to Israel and Palestine, who, a man of great moral standing, takes an even-handed approach, as apparently a real friend, to Israel, and I await whether Netanjahu / Liberman will be able to deal with the same critique issuing from someone who cannot be so easily besmirched. <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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matter real thought [on translating Robert Schindel’s <u>Whereborn</u> in the
mid-90s, whose report on the situation was not encouraging] judging by the kind
of contortions that most though again not all German officialdom put themselves
through so as not to be regarded anti-Semitic is even less encouraging fifteen
years later. - A fine exception I found to be the Minister President of the State
of Mark Brandenburg, the heart of Prussia, Herr Platzeck, SPD, where my heart
beats, too, unless the SPD compromises too much whereupon the heart swings hard
left!</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hitler’s toxic leavings, not just a ruined culture that will never recover. That those poor sods then should be at the mercy of the likes of Netanjahu and Liberman. I can’t find either justice or irony or any kind of moral in that. And of course the controversy not only allows no end of cowards to spew bile at Grass, but invigorate the actual existing anti-Semitism. </span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre>
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<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Michael Roloff, June 2012</span></span><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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Controversy]</span></b><o:p></o:p><br />
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</b><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://artscritic.blogspot.com/2012/05/guenter-grasss-notorious-poem-poetics.html</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">However, SZ, the Suedeutsche is
always game for a controversy, they did Handke’s <u>Justice for Serbia</u> back
in 1993. Handke, surprisingly, fails to enter the fray [of the Grass
controversy] in this instance. He did the time Grass revealed in <u>Peeling the
Onion</u> in 2007 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS, a tank gunner,
small stature, good fit for cramped spaces, U-Boats. Handke strutted
forth with the worst kind of self-righteousness, the newsfolk caught up
with him in Spain [Handke had forgotten what he had learned from Milovan
Djilas] </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">¡<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/espanol-aleman/esto.html"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">esto</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b></span><a href="http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/espanol-aleman/es.html"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">es</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b></span><a href="http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/espanol-aleman/una.html"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">una</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b></span><a href="http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/espanol-aleman/verghtml"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #589e92; font-family: 'Courier New';">vergüenza</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">!<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"> at that time everyone knew at age 17 what the SS
was, </span></span></b><span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">where I
felt I needed to point out that the 30 year old Handke at times seemed not to
know what every normal 12 year old does. </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"> Surprising hat with everybody and his
cat chiming in on the Grass controversy Peter Handke did not. Journalists,
knowing that Handke is always good for a sexy quote, did not get anything out
of him until he and his buddy Luc Bondy started giving interviews for the
mid-May 2012 premiere of <u>Die Schoenen Tage von Aranjuez.</u> Handke, a
pretty bad liar, lied, not that unusual for him, but certainly so in an
instance where a star was robbing him of some of his space in the firmament his
featured place in the lime light, big time, internationally, the Grass story
spread to India, Thailand, Japan.</span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Handke,
when he finally replied to a query whether he had read the poem, said no, he
was in Paris - as though my kiosk-hound cannot find German papers or read
the translation in his daily <u>Le Monde</u>! Handke’s companion during the
interview, Luc Bondy, had read the poem and was dismissive. Handke was
surprisingly generous in recalling a powerful Grass poem of 1966 at Princeton,
but then slighted Grass’s intelligence… He did pretty much the same thing in
two different interviews, he and his buddy began to look like the Bobsy Twins!</span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">However,
“the comeback kid” is back in good graces, his press has been good, deservedly
so, for good work, finally he won the Muehlheim Prize for the best piece of the
year after not receiving it for a number of others where he ought to have, if
he has continued to beat up women or indulged in other nefarious proclivities
we have not heard about it, although wife Sophie Semin did look very sour in
her recent Lillian Birnbaum Photo… So why get involved in a fray that is
a lose lose proposition? Attacking Grass Handke would have found himself in the
company of Joffe, Schirrmacher, Naumann and Reichs-Kanickel – second raters who
have given him no end of stupefying grief over the years, Ranicki turns out to
be the best of that lot, sadly. Coming out in defense – there was a plenty of
that, but it would have made news and not helped him. Thus “ta geule!”</span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">And, as
evidenced by the controversy, the last thing you want to do as a German
language author is become embroiled in a dog fight that involves anti-Semitism.
Handke briefly compared the bombing of Belgrade to Auschwitz, a comparison
rapidly apologized for, but which at the very least demonstrated the authenticity
of his pain at the final form of the West’s decimation of the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Federation. </span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b><span style="background-color: silver; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Other
major worthies of Grass’generation and fellow Gruppe 47 members such as
Enzensberger and Jürgen Habermas have kept their public mouths <i>ta geule</i>,
so far. Martin Walser noted, in passing, that Grass was anything but an
anti-Semite, as did a lot of goyim and Jewish friends of his also citing the
portrayal of the toy maker in <u>The Tin Drum.</u> Muschg was the first to come out in support.
Rolf Hochut felt Grass wrote and anti-Semitic poem and resigned from the German
academy. I must say I have lost track of whence this quote that hits the nail
on the head: “As political commentary the Grass poem, which isn’t much good as
a poem, is something everyone knows. That something like that elicits
accusations of anti-Semitism only testifies to the apparent impossibility of
differentiating between Jews and the State of Israel, and of the continuing
unsettled nature of German guilt feelings.” </span></b></span><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Als politisches Kommentar ist das Grass
Gedicht, das als Gedicht nicht viel taugt, eine Binsenweisheit. Das so was
Anti-Semitismus Beschuldigungen hervorruft zeugt von der scheinbaren
Unmoeglichkeit zwischen Juden und dem Staat Israel zu unterscheiden, und von
der andauernden Unausgeglichenheit des Deutschen Schuldgefuehls.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Notes: Context<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Useful is Shulman’s NYRB
review of Beinart<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/israel-in-peril/"><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jun/07/israel-in-peril/</span></a><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_i1026" type="#_x0000_t75"
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of Zionism</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>book is by no
means entirely unoriginal: Beinart clearly has had close access to key members
of the Obama administration, and has provided the most persuasive and detailed
account of Obama’s step-by-step abandonment of his previous “liberal Zionist”
principles and sympathies and his final humiliating surrender to the Netanyahu
government, the know-nothings in Congress, and the Israel lobby</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><u><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></u></span><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">Here
are the main facts about Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as
reviewed by Beinart:<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">.The Nakba: the expulsion (or worse) of
hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the destruction of their homes and villages
in the 1947-48 period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">. The forty-five year Israeli occupation
and repression of the Palestinians, including the ongoing expansion of the
settlements in the West Bank and their encroachment on the land, water, and
agriculture of the Palestinians—enforced by severe economic pressures, home and
farm demolitions, imprisonment, assassinations, and periodic outright major
military attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">. The various forms of economic, political,
and social discrimination of the Palestinian minority (the Arab Israelis) in
Israel itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">. The spread of racism, political
extremism, religious fanaticism and outright violence in Israel—including
terrorism and routine police violence against even the Jewish dissenters. As
Beinart puts it, a vicious cycle has been created, “in which illiberal Zionism
beyond the green line destroys the possibility of liberal Zionism inside it; as
survey after survey has demonstrated, there has been a rapid decline in
democratic and liberal values, and each succeeding Israeli generation, certainly
including the current one, is worse than the previous one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">. The long history of Israeli intransigence
or outright torpedoing of various opportunities to reach a two-state compromise
settlement with the Palestinians—including the last serious negotiations, at
Camp David and Taba in 2000. In his analysis, Beinart incorporates the
scholarship and the Israeli journalism as well as diplomatic memoirs that have
thoroughly refuted the standard argument that Arafat rebuffed a generous
Israeli two-state offer and then turned to terrorism and violence. Today, no
serious analysis of the events of 2000-2001 accepts this mythology.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 15.0pt;">
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">6. The Israeli refusal to explore the
possibility of a negotiated settlement with a Palestinian government that
includes Hamas, despite the growing evidence that Hamas is now opposed to
terrorist violence against Israel and is increasingly likely to agree to a
two-state settlement of the conflict. Indeed, not only has Israel ignored these
trends, as Beinart points out it has often provoked violence with Hamas,
especially but not limited to the massive Israeli attack on Gaza in 2008-09</span><span style="color: #333333;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<u><span style="color: #333333;">Context footnote ctd</span></u><span style="color: #333333;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />
<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/01/377382/max-boot-iran/"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/12/01/377382/max-boot-iran/</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">The Council on Foreign
Relations’Max Boot is no stranger to calling for increasingly confrontational
measures to address Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. But in a column in
today’s L.A. Times, Boot doubles down on his calls for war while in the same
breath admitting that a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would only
delay Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon. He writes:</span></b><b><i><u><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
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</span></b><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577130834200656156.html"><b><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204632204577130834200656156.html</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
By BRADLEY S. RUSSELL<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
AND MAX BOOT<br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Iran threatened to close the
Strait of Hormuz last week, in response to U.S. and European Union moves to
apply sanctions on its oil industry. Only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point,
the strait sees the passage of roughly 28 tanker ships a day, half loaded, half
empty. Some 17 million barrels of oil—% of oil traded in the world—go through
this chokepoint. If Iran really could close the strait, it would do great
damage to the world economy. But it would also damage its own already shaky
economy because Iran relies on the strait to deliver oil exports to China and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="background-color: lightgrey; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Context ctd.<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
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<a href="http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2012/05/28/iran-rules/?singlepage=true">http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2012/05/28/iran-rules/?singlepage=true</a><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div>
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By<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Style"><b>Michael Ledeen</b></span><o:p></o:p><br />
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
So we had
important talks with the Iranian regime and reached an important agreement to
have more important talks with them next month. No one on our team seems
the least bit embarrassed, nor do any of the pundits who predicted that some
sort of nuke deal would be agreed on. Indeed, most of the coverage that
I’ve seen has to do with Israel: will they attack or not?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt;">
On the basis of my
mother’s dictum that repetition is the basis of all learning, let’s go through
the basic principles again:<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;">
Iranian
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is not interested in a deal with the West unless it
is clearly and unequivocally a total Western surrender that ends sanctions,
confirms our retreat from the Middle East, and acknowledges Iran as the
regional hegemon;<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="line-height: 18.0pt; tab-stops: .5in;">
The
current game–call it “around the world in 180 days”–provides the diplomats with
good food, luxurious accommodations, and pictures in the papers, and it leaves
the Iranians free to enrich uranium, build missiles and warheads, and kill us
and anyone inclined to work with us. That is the Real War and no Western leader
ever talks about it;<o:p></o:p></div>
CONTEXT FOOTNOTE CTD<o:p></o:p><br />
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sanctions
will neither stop the Iranian nuclear program nor stop the Real War. Only
a change in regime can accomplish that. To that end, sanctions could be a
positive force if they were combined with support for the Iranian
opposition. Just ask the Revolutionary Guards how serious the resistance
is: the RG just deployed an additional eight thousand soldiers—some in
uniform, others in plain clothes–in the streets of Tehran.But no Western leader
cares to help the Iranian opposition, even verbally. When
those leaders say “no option is off the table,” they mean some day
there might be a military attack against Iran. But financial
and tactical assistance to the Iranian people willing to actively fight for freedom
is totally off any Western strategic table;<b><span style="color: #202020;"> “No solution but force … strong military
rule. Any outbreak will bring upon the Arabs enormous suffering. We shouldn’t
wait for a big uprising to start, but rather act immediately with great force
to prevent them from carrying on. … If it’s possible, we should conquer any
disputed territory in the Land of Israel. Conquer and hold it, even if it
brings us years of war. We should conquer Gaza, and parts of the Galilee, and
the Golan. This will bring upon us a bloody war, since war is difficult for us
–we don’t have a lot of territory, while the Arabs have lots of space to
retreat to. But that’s the only way to survive here.<br />
<br />
There is valuable experience [on this matter] we don’t pay notice to. I mean
the Ottoman rule over the Arabs. The Turks ruled over the Arabs for 400 years,
and there was peace and quiet everywhere. The Arabs hated the Ottomans, but
every little thing they did brought mass killings and hanging in towns squares.
They were hanging people in Damascus, and Izmir … every town had hanging posts
in its center. … The Arabs were so badly beaten, they didn’t dare revolt.
Naturally, I don’t recommend the use of hangings as a show of force like the
Turks did, I just want to show that the only thing that might move the Arabs
from the rejectionist position is force.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">============================<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
Israel's Spy Revoly<br />
Something has gone very wrong with Israel's posture on Iran's nuclear program.
While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak lead a
confrontational approach -- including dramatic interviews and speeches to U.S.
audiences that have convinced many that Israel might soon strike Iran's nuclear
facilities -- the former heads of Israel's intelligence agencies have come out
publicly against the government's position. First, Meir Dagan -- who headed the
Mossad until late 2010 and coordinated Israel's Iran policy -- called an attack
on Iran "the most foolish thing I've heard." In April, Yuval Diskin
-- the previous head of the domestic intelligence service, the Shin Bet --
voiced a scathing and personal critique of Netanyahu and Barak. Diskin questioned
not only the leaders' policy, but also their very judgment and capacity to
lead, warning against their "messianic" approach to Iran's nuclear
program.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">May 18, 2012 9:38 PM</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="comment-timestamp">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/05/10-israel-spy-sachs<br />
========================<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="comment-timestamp">
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Lieberman's
office stated in early April that peace talks will continue when Palestinian
government officials crack down on attacks against Israelis, after which the
Israeli administration will reciprocate by freezing settlement construction or
expansion in the West Bank.[24] That position contradicts the Obama
administration's new approach to the peace efforts, where Israel is requested
to freeze all construction, including "natural growth" (i.e.
"within existing construction lines")[25] regardless of Palestinian
commitments.[26] The office also told U.S. special envoy George Mitchell that
past negotiations did not bring any real results.[26] Lieberman himself said in
April, "The situation is deadlocked, and it is not because of us".[24]
He argued that a stable, successful peace effort requires Americans to focus on
preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.[26]<br />
Lieberman and Prime Minister Netanyahu both planned to broaden the PR campaign
overseen by the Foreign Ministry about Iran. Part of its new campaign focuses
on Tehran's abuse of human rights and sponsorship of terrorism and also aims to
appeal to those, such as the gay and lesbian communities, less concerned with
Iran's nuclear aspirations and more fearful of its human rights abuses and
mistreatment of minorities.[27] Despite his status within the government, the
Israeli police have questioned Lieberman three times from he took office to 11
April about the ongoing corruption investigation.[24]<br />
<br />
</span></b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Courting
Failure in Iran Nuke Talks<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: small;">May 28, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></h1>
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">In rebuffing Iran’s concessions on its nuclear
program, the Obama administration is bending to hard-line neocon pressures at
home and Israeli demands abroad. But it also appears stuck on the notion of
permanent U.S. hegemony in the Middle East, says national security expert Flynt
Leverett at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="http://www.raceforiran.com/"><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0000;">www.RaceForIran.com</span></b></a><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">On<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><a href="http://antiwar.com/radio/2012/05/25/flynt-leverett-9/"><b><i><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0000;">Antiwar Radio,</span></i></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">Flynt Leverett reviewed the P5+1
nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic, noting that President Barack
Obama and his foreign policy team seem no more prepared to deal with the major
issues that must be addressed to enable a meaningful agreement — accepting
internationally safeguarded enrichment in Iran and recognizing that a
negotiated solution will necessarily entail significant sanctions relief —than
it was during its p</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">revious attempt at nuclear diplomacy during <br />
Just as the United States had (and has) interests in Asia, it has “critical
interests” in the Middle East. And it can only protect and promote those
interests by “having positive relations with all of the important players in
the region—and especially with Iran.”</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">This, however, is “a strategic logic” that the Obama
Administration “seems no more capable of embracing than its predecessors in the
Bush-43 Administration.” (Or, one might add, the Clinton and Bush-41
administrations.) It is a profound “strategic failure.”<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">In the interview, Flynt also critiqued myths of
Iranian “irrationality” and of the Islamic Republic as too unreasoningly
hostile toward the United States for real improvement in U.S.-Iranian relations
to be possible.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">-2010<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<span class="Style"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">Flynt Leverett served as a Middle East
expert on George W. Bush’s National Security Council staff until the Iraq War
and worked previously at the State Department and at the Central Intelligence
Agency. Hillary Mann Leverett was the NSC expert on Iran and –from 2001 to 2003
– was one of only a few U.S. diplomats authorized to negotiate with the
Iranians over Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and Iraq. [</span></b></span><a href="http://www.raceforiran.com/nuclear-talks-with-iran-highlight-the-downsides-of-america%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-ongoing-quest-for-middle-east-hegemony"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #cc0000;">This article</span></b></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;"> </span></b></span><span class="Style"><b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">was originally
published at RaceforIran.com.]</span></b></span><span class="Style"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/books/confront-and-conceal-by-david-sanger.html?_r=1&ref=books"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/books/confront-and-conceal-by-david-sanger.html?_r=1&ref=books</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">The
stunning revelations by Mr. Sanger, The New York Times’s chief Washington
correspondent, about the American role in using computer warfare to attack
Iran’s nuclear program already have made headlines, and rightly so. He
persuasively shows that under Mr. Obama, the United States government has been
engaged in what one presidential adviser calls “a state of low-grade, daily
conflict.”<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444;">The
heart of this book is the chapter titled “Olympic Games,” which Mr. Sanger
writes is the code name for a joint program of Israel and the United States to
insert malicious software into the machinery of the Iranian military-industrial
complex and so set back Iran’s ability to manufacture weapons-grade uranium.
Specifically, in 2008 and 2009 the software threw off the balance of
centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear enrichment center. It did so in a variety of
unpredictable ways, making it at first seem like the problems were random or
the result of Iranian incompetence. The key to getting inside the computers —
which were not connected to the Internet — was to load the virus into thumb
drives that Iranian nuclear technicians, perhaps unknowingly, would bring to
work and plug into the computer systems there.</span></b><b><span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/28/courting-failure-in-iran-nuke-talks/"><span style="background-color: magenta; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/28/courting-failure-in-iran-nuke-talks/</span></a><b><i><u><span style="background-color: cyan; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
<span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Sanktionen für Günter Grass<br />
Nach dem israelischen Einreiseverbot für Günter Grass wendet sich nach und nach
die gesamte Weltgemeinschaft gegen den Autor. Grass-Häuser in aller Welt werden
geschlossen, die Botschafter nach Hause geschickt; Politiker der Europäischen
Union erwägen ein Tabak- und Schnauzkammembargo, um Grass zu zermürben. Auch
immer mehr Schurkenstaaten gehen auf Distanz, u.a. Kim Jong Un: "Wir
wissen, daß Grass seit Jahren an einem zehnten, hochangereicherten Roman
arbeitet und dafür mit extrem haarspaltendem Material experimentiert. Damit
wollen wir nichts zu tun haben." Auch der Iran stellte die Zusammenarbeit
mit dem umstrittenen Dichter ein: "Nun gut, auch wir wollen Israel
auslöschen", so Mahmud Ahmadinedschad, "aber schnell und relativ
schmerzlos. Die Juden vorher mit endlosen Pfuschgedichten zu quälen, das ist
grausam und barbarisch."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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http://www.titanic-magazin.de/news.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=4882&cHash=b490c75b3c86eb0566eaedd82897fcd6<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">The Grass Poem
Controversy<br />
must be one of the oddest of all time.<br />
Even the Israeli Military and Security Services<br />
realize that the Netanyahoo/ Liberman government<br />
poses a threat to world peace, it would be the case<br />
even if an old SS general said so, but if Günter<br />
Grass, who contorts himself into a knot of contrition<br />
for having been a Teenage Werewolf Nazi provokes this government<br />
with the same truth, it goes into tizzy! And so does<br />
every Neo-Con within range of a news </span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">site!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';">Grass hat das Recht zu
solch einer Warnung</span></b><b><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
Aufgrund der Tatsache, dass Günter Grass den
Zweiten Weltkrieg tiefschürfend erlebt hat und mit gerade mal 17 Jahren sogar
von der Waffen-SS einverleibt worden ist, hat er aus seiner Lebenserfahrung ein
deutliches Recht dazu, solch eine Warnung auszusprechen. Die Tatsache, dass die
israelische Regierung ihm ein Einreiseverbot ausgesprochen hat, zeigt
eindeutig, dass an Grass’ Warnungen etwas dran ist. Es wäre seitens Israel
besser gewesen, zu bestätigen, keine nuklearen Waffen zu besitzen und zu
erklären, keinen Erstschlag gegen den Iran ausführen zu wollen. Alles das hat
nichts mit dem Holocaust zu tun, sondern es geht einzig und allein um die
Erhaltung des Friedens heute.</span></b><b><i><u><span style="background-color: lime; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></div>
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Ich wüßte nicht, dass es irgendwo zu vertreten wäre, Präventivschläge
auszuführen, die leider Teil der israelischen Militärgeschichte sind. Es
wäre auch schön, wenn Israel dem Atomwaffensperrvertrag beitreten und Mr.
Vanunu freilassen würde. Außerdem ist es eine Tatsache, dass die
israelischen Regierungen seit Jahrzehnten versuchen, die Palästinenser in
andere Länder abzuschieben oder ihrer Lebensgrundlagen zu berauben. Der
Fortgang des Siedlungsbaus ist vollständig illegal und widerspricht dem
Osloer Abkommen. Die Lieferung von Waffen in Kriegs- oder Krisengebiete
darf und soll hinterfragt werden. Ich bin nicht dafür. Herr Grass scheint
mir alles mit allem zu vermischen. Auch scheint es fraglich zu sein, wer
hier welchen Kriegstreibern den Rang abläuft. Die Dämonisierung der
israelischen Regierung als d i e Gefährderin des Weltfriedens ist eine
Merkwürdigkeit. Sozusagen als sei das Frieden, jetzt . Israel wird bei
Herrn Grass als Verursacherin der Bedrohung bezeichnet. Das scheint mir
eine Simplifizierung zu sein. Da es sich bei dem iranischen Regime nun
nicht um eine durch Friedensliebe ausgezeichnete Herrschaftsclique handelt,
die Auslöschungsdrohungen ausstößt, kann man wohl nicht allen Ernstes von
Frieden sprechen. Seit Jahren herrscht in der Region der Status Quo. Oder
Krieg. Verzicht auf Gewalt und Etablierung einer internationalen Kontrolle
- daran ist nichts falsch, und wäre für Jerusalem als exterritoriales
Gebilde sicher sinnvoll, ebenso wie die Kontrolle aller Atomanlagen. Vor
einem Krieg gegen den Iran zu warnen, ist vernünftig. Wir haben noch immer
die Lügen präsent, mit denen Großbritannien dazu gebracht wurde, sich am
Irak-Krieg zu beteiligen. Esther Dischereit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="styleberlingantiqua0"><b>Link to numerous if not all
FAZ pieces about the poem:</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<br /></div>SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-75316925623311643672012-05-13T19:50:00.000-07:002012-05-13T19:50:30.782-07:00SUMMARY OF THE GRASS CONTROVERSY<br />
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<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>WHERE A MAX BOOT OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS
CAN UNEXEPTIONALLY CALL FOR THE BOMBING OF IRAN<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Why can’t little old Günter Grass <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></i></div>
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contortions to prevent a potential catastrophe?!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></i></div>
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<pre><b><u><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/@%20%20http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html">ARCHIV FOR gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</a></span></span></u></b></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Archive for the Entire Controversy<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html?showComment=1336496661187#comment-c1759685760368645493"></a> <a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Part II<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A Summary<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Defense of the Beast<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Part I<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A Summary of the Political <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Critique of the Beast <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></pre>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In March of this year, 2012, Prime Minister Netanjahu
came once more to Washington, sought for permission, from President Obama, for
an instant first strike on Iran, but appears to have been told to hold his
horses, i.e. his American-made Jets, at least until after the Fall 2012
presidential election; besides, negotiations have resumed, in Bagdad, it
remains to be seen whether the conditions imposed on Iran to stop enhancing
uranium, are so onerous as to be unacceptable. As a consolation Netanjahu got a
basketful of bunker busting U.S. bombs and was assured that Israel had the U.S.’s
back [the current cliché for saying we will back you no matter what]. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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discussed for years, it is part of normal newspaper chatter, the way some Mafia
dons talk about taking out a bothersome neighborhood competitor; e.g. this of
May 10, 2012 about the new Israeli Unity government with Mofaz of the Kadima
Party: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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consistently opposed an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, joined the
Netanyahu government on Tuesday despite having called the prime minister a
liar. After taking over as Kadima head this spring, he repeatedly pledged to
lead the opposition.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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meetings, conferences, sign petitions, write at Common Dreams, even Tom
Dispatch and The Nation are upset. It is very much old news. Everyday news. The
reasons given for a pre-emptive strike, it would be Israel’s third but by far
largest and more complicated in this instance on a large complex of nuclear
installations, are certain threats that Prime Minister A. has made in the past,
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Chief reason for the take-out first strike mugging is
that the Mullah regime in the person of its President Amindejabad talks about
his wishes to eliminate Israel, the beachhead of Western Imperialism in the
Muslim nation. The pronouncement on that man’s part are given wide and
frequently mistranslated dissemination. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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challenged him on the biggest talking point of all, Iran's supposed
determination to 'wipe Israel off the face of the map,' that Meridor [deputey
Prime Minister] seemed to stumble outside the lines of the agreed
narrative."</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
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translation there is no doubt that the Iranian government regards Israel the
beachhead of Western Imperialism; and of course for good reason if you consider
the treatment Iran has been accorded by Western Modernism over the past several
hundred years. Hell, I might revert too, though not to Mohammedanism but to
animism if Bernard Lewis<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">treated me to modernism of this kind.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The West and the powers that be would just as soon
install another Shah Pavlevi - in the immortal words of that old warhorse
Jeanne Kirpatrick, he’d be one of our s.o.b.s.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">However, there really is no disputing the fact that
the fellow poses a threat somewhere down the line. That man will not become a
friendly neighborhood pussycat, he has far too many grievances, so what if they
are justified or not, let’s neuter the bugger now!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And there are those who dream that if we neuter him
now, what a clear swath we have to Afghanistan,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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FORGOTTEN JOHN MCCAIN INDIANFIGHTER'S REFRAIN "BOMB BOMB IRAN"
[“Wimps go to Bagdad, real men go to Teheran”] HERE IS OUR VERY OWN MAX BOOT OF
THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS DOING THE SAME THIS YEAR, FOR A LITTLE CONTEXT
WHERE GRASS AND THOSE WHO ARE UPSET HIM, FITS IN</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
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The Council on Foreign Relations’ Max Boot is
no stranger to calling for increasingly confrontational measures to address
Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. But in a column in today’s L.A. Times,
Boot doubles down on his calls for war while in the same breath admitting that
a military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities would only delay Iran’s
acquisition of a nuclear weapon. He writes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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By BRADLEY S. RUSSELL<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz
last week, in response to U.S. and European Union moves to apply sanctions on
its oil industry. Only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, the strait sees
the passage of roughly 28 tanker ships a day, half loaded, half empty. Some 17
million barrels of oil—20% of oil traded in the world—go through this
chokepoint. If Iran really could close the strait, it would do great damage to
the world economy. But it would also damage its own already shaky economy
because Iran relies on the strait to deliver oil exports to China and</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"> </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A.’s statements are put on publicity steroids and
repeated ad infinitum and no one even bothers to check their veracity. Ditto
for A.’s assertion that the Holocaust is
a fabrication, although the other day A. claimed to a visiting group of German
businessmenm whom he had granted an audience, that he did not deny it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">If he did want to deny it what might be the reason –
because a devout Muslim would have to honor the fact that Israel, besides being
a 3 billion dollar a year aircraft carrier for the successor empire, is the
refugium from the German holocaust. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Israel has committed two earlier preventive strikes,
one against a reactor in Iraq and last year destroyed one in Syria. Any
neighbor with nuclear abilities of any kind brings out the pre-emptor in
Israeli governments.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There is no disputing that the Palestinians and the
Israelis are being beastly to each other. Internecine warfare, assassinations<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The Netanjahu government, as compared to prior Israeli
governments, appears to have no interest in a peaceful solution of any kind.
With a fair amount of opposition to his and foreign minister Lieberman’s plan
for a pre-emptive strike against the numerous Iranian nuclear facilities, one
wonders where Netanjahu might have support for such a venture, and one does not
need to look far: it comes from the usual quarters, the U.S. Neo-Cons, the same
people who brought you the war in Iraq, Max Boot [see above] and Afghanistan
and going back a few decades earlier,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">its destabilization, the creation and then, when they
had done their job, the abandonment of the Mujahedeen. It’s the way of this
particular version of Imperialism.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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REFRAIN "BOMB BOMB IRAN," HERE IS OUR VERY OWN MAX BOOT OF THE
COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS DOING THE SAME THIS YEAR, FOR A LITTLE CONTEXT WHERE
GRASS AND THOSE WHOM HE UPSETS ARE UPSET, FITS IN:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Foreign Relations’ Max Boot is no stranger to calling for increasingly
confrontational measures to address Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program. But
in a column in today’s L.A. Times, Boot doubles down on his calls for war while
in the same breath admitting that a military strike on Iran’s nuclear
facilities would only delay Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon. He writes:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b> There are one
or two big differences between going to war against an impotent regime such as
Saddam Hussein’s in 2003 and a 2012 Iran. One is that Iran might pose a threat
somewhere down the line whereas Iraq did not</b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[“Real men go to
Teheran.”</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> and that Iran
is not impotent as Saddam was when he was attacked.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The consequences immediate and long term are
unforeseeable. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">That is,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Günter Grass’s scenario where Iran destroyed nuclear
facilities shower the country-side with radiation, or where Iran’ s final
defeat requires the use of Israeli nuclear arms, possibly delivered by German
Dolphin Class submarines – Grass ruminations, those of a poet-sage oracle - is
not entirely fantastical,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">although this suggestion of his seems to have been
what most upset <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">his critics. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>It’s that claim of a right to first strike<br />
against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—<br />
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people<br />
on suspicion that under his influence<br />
an atom bomb’s being built…<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>But now, when my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes<br />
for which time and again it must be tasked—<br />
once again, in pure commerce,<br />
though with quick lips we declare it<br />
reparations, wants to send<br />
Israel yet another submarine—<br />
one whose specialty is to deliver<br />
warheads capable of ending all life<br />
where the existence of even one<br />
nuclear weapon remains unproven,<br />
but where suspicion serves for proof—<br />
now I say what must be said…<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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in old age, with my last drop of ink,<br />
that Israel’s nuclear power endangers<br />
an already fragile world peace?<br />
Because what by tomorrow might be<br />
too late, must be spoken now,<br />
and because we—as Germans, already<br />
burdened enough—could become<br />
enablers of a crime, foreseeable and therefore<br />
not to be eradicated<br />
with any of the usual excuses…<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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and at the same time demand<br />
a permanent and unrestrained control<br />
of Israel’s atomic power<br />
and Iranian nuclear plants<br />
by an international authority<br />
accepted by both governments.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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one give help<br />
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,<br />
all the peoples, neighbour-enemies<br />
living in this region occupied by madness<br />
—and finally, to ourselves as well.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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text in German, English, Spanish and Italian at the end)<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A first strike would seem to initiate at least an huge
regional conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">There are parties in the United States, roughly
described as Neo-Cons, who see the choice of this course of action as clearing
of the throat.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Into this roughly sketched state of affairs, into this
tenuous situation, this flux, waltzes an 84 year old Kashubian upsetter of
applecarts, poet, writer with a bit of baggage but great work to look back on
and issues a poem.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yes,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">into this situation enters the German writer, poet,
playwright, visual artist and Nobel Prize for literature recipient Günter Grass
with the below poem<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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text in German, English, Spanish and Italian at the end)<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And all frigging hell breaks loose!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Even now, five weeks later, as I am trying to sum up the
mess, the international incident that Grass created,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Avgdir Liebermann shows up in Berlin and inveighs against
Grass’s anti-semitism <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A charge that is seconded, echoed by his German
counterpart, Guido Westerwelle.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The former head of the German Judenrat, a Ms. Knobloch<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"> accuses
Grass </span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua">“</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Das Gedicht von Grass ist
Volksverhetzung.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Where I am uncertain what the dear lady means, one people or
both the Israelis and the German people being set upon each other?</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua">
She also advised the Bundestag not to go eadsy on Grass!</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">However,
after five weeks of this I take out my garlic press, for Ms. Knobloch, and
suggest that maybe both the Israeli and German government hire a few of those
allegedly 30 % of the population Talmud students to decipher Grass’s
intentionally lightly freighted text to discern where and why the critique of a
particular Israeli government constitutes anti-Semitism. For you will note that
most of those attacking Grass of anti-Semitism asservate that critique of
Israeli governments is perfectly fine… except it appears in this instance.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The
fracas that ensued upon publication of the Grass poem manifests the toxicity
that<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">the
“final solution”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">has
left not only among Germans and Jews, but world-wide.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">When was the last time that a poem elicited half a dozen
defensive aggressive statements from a Prime Minister, as Grass’s poem did<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of Netanjahu?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Not only do certain parties, the very Neo-Cons who
support a first strike, try to kill the poem by tossing dumpsters full of
accusations of anti-Semitism,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A veritable phantasmagoria <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> on it<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">[see Part A<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-synopsis-of-grass-poem-controversy.html">http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/2012/04/part-synopsis-of-grass-poem-controversy.html</a> ]<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Many members of the Social Democratic Party with whom
Grass has had a fruitful relationship for 50 + years<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">tell him that he is full of <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">it<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;">Leading Social Democrats are heading the offensive
against their former party member, who was once one of the SPD’s most prominent
election campaigners.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><br />
On the very day after the poem’s publication,
SPD general secretary Andrea Nahles commented that, given the situation in the
Middle East, the poem was “irritating and inappropriate”. Reinhold Robbe,
former SPD spokesman on military affairs and current president of the
German-Israeli Society, accused Grass of gross ignorance regarding the complex
political situation in the Middle East. Grass’s views were “so general and
shallow that it is almost pointless trying to counter them in any detail”. The
text was “meagre, self-centred, superfluous and vain”, said Robbe, adding: “I
don’t want to see Grass in any more election campaigns for the SPD”.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><a href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/gras-m10.shtml">http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/may2012/gras-m10.shtml</a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Moreover,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Quite a few fellow poets and aestheticians <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> dispute
that this is even a poem,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">[<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">see
my <u>Codicil</u> on the Poetics of the Beast]</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It’ just an editorial in op-ed form!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The poet has his his nose rubbed in his past as an enthusiastic
Hitler Youth and a few months membership in the Waffen SS is called a career. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The fact that his writing and his mortified actions
since he realized how he had been indoctrinated, statement from close friends,
Jewish and not-Jewish would clear him of the charge, his multiple contrition
means nothing to the nose-rubbers. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">However, a slew of defenders come to the rescue and
point out that Grass’s central charge that a first strike is planned and has
been rehearsed is beyond dispute, as is the German building of submarines with
the capacity to fire nuclear tipped missiles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">No one but me,
I don’t think, has pointed out the utter irrelevance to that truth of whether
Grass is or was ever anti-Semitic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">He might as
well be the one SS general I once heard extolling the prowess of Moshe Dayan
after the six days war. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">No one seems
willing to discuss the consequence of a possible first strike; well yes, there
are the Max Boots of this world who will keep writing editorials until kingdom
come.</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I find such avoidance odd.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Not the message, but the messenger becomes the
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In the case of the imperialist minded Neo-Cons the
interest in such avoidance is self-evident. But, why didn’t they simply do as
they have done all along with numerous other appeals, and meetings. Why did Günter
Grass with a carefully wrought, funereally toned 69 line poem get their goat? Inflame
the often sober-minded Jakob Heilbrun? And I come up with the same reason I did
a week or so ago: it is Dr. Fritz Stern’s pointing to the aggressive defensive
insecure nature of the Netanjahu and Liebermann government, an assessment born
out by the minister of the interior making Grass persona non-grata.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Aggressive-defensive dogs of war<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">are unpredictable.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Think about
this for a second, when has a poem had this kind of effect, possibly on world
history, so that you wished it were a bit more than a well-enough-crafted piece
of free verse written in Brecht’s method of rhyme-less poetry with irregular
rhythms. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dactyls.
Troches.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I am still
mystified by its effect. Tetchy war-mongering Neo-Cons, intergovernmental
relations,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Diplomats in
an uproar,<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> perhaps it’s those Dolphin-class submarines
subsidized by the reparations, the unholy mix<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">of that and
a Nobel-prize winning writer in oracular mode!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Lucky Bibi
that Grass doesn’t know from hip-hop or every Palestinian would be spouting the
Grass poem as they tossed yet another rock. Lucky Bibi that Grass did not write
a great poem that resounds through the ages such as Brecht, or Auden or Yeats
or Hoelderlin might have. Lucky Bibi that Grass only said later precisely whom<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he had in
mind.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Perhaps the
poem ought to have been written in Gerald Manley Hopkins’ sprung rhythm, <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u>Wreck of
the Deutschland</u></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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thou touch me afresh?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> or turned into funagain Amurrican<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">a la Tony
Kushner’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">version of <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Mother
Courage.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Why have I kept silent, silent for too long<br />
over what is openly played out<br />
in war games at the end of which we<br />
the survivors are at best footnotes.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>It’s that claim of a right to first strike<br />
against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—<br />
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people<br />
on suspicion that under his influence<br />
an atom bomb’s being built.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>But why do I forbid myself<br />
to name that other land in which<br />
for years—although kept secret—<br />
a usable nuclear capability has grown<br />
beyond all control, because<br />
no scrutiny is allowed.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>The universal silence around this fact,<br />
under which my own silence lay,<br />
I feel now as a heavy lie,<br />
a strong constraint, which to dismiss<br />
courts forceful punishment:<br />
the verdict of “Antisemitism” is well known.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>But now, when my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes<br />
for which time and again it must be tasked—<br />
once again, in pure commerce,<br />
though with quick lips we declare it<br />
reparations, wants to send<br />
Israel yet another submarine—<br />
one whose specialty is to deliver<br />
warheads capable of ending all life<br />
where the existence of even one<br />
nuclear weapon remains unproven,<br />
but where suspicion serves for proof—<br />
now I say what must be said.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>But why was I silent for so long?<br />
Because I thought my origin,<br />
marked with an ineradicable stain,<br />
forbade mention of this fact<br />
as definite truth about Israel, a country<br />
to which I am and will remain attached.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Why is it only now I say,<br />
in old age, with my last drop of ink,<br />
that Israel’s nuclear power endangers<br />
an already fragile world peace?<br />
Because what by tomorrow might be<br />
too late, must be spoken now,<br />
and because we—as Germans, already<br />
burdened enough—could become<br />
enablers of a crime, foreseeable and therefore<br />
not to be eradicated<br />
with any of the usual excuses.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>And admittedly: I’m silent no more<br />
because I’ve had it with the West’s hypocrisy<br />
—and one can hope that many others too<br />
may free themselves from silence,<br />
challenge the instigator of known danger<br />
to abstain from violence,<br />
and at the same time demand<br />
a permanent and unrestrained control<br />
of Israel’s atomic power<br />
and Iranian nuclear plants<br />
by an international authority<br />
accepted by both governments.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Only thus can one give help<br />
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,<br />
all the peoples, neighbour-enemies<br />
living in this region occupied by madness<br />
—and finally, to ourselves as well.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den
Erstschlag,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">einer Atombombe vermutet wird.</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Doch warum untersage ich mir,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten
-</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zugänglich ist?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses
Tatbestandes,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">empfinde ich als belastende Lüge</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">sobald er mißachtet wird;</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist
geläufig.</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das von ureigenen Verbrechen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">die ohne Vergleich sind,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt
wird,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung
deklariert,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein
will,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und bleiben will, zuzumuten.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Warum sage ich jetzt erst,</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">durch keine der üblichen Ausreden</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zu tilgen wäre.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">gleichfalls darauf bestehen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">des israelischen atomaren Potentials</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und der iranischen Atomanlagen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">durch eine internationale Instanz</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen
wird.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">vom Wahn okkupierten Region</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben</span><br />
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<br /></div>SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-85017118223953548372012-05-06T20:36:00.001-07:002012-05-06T20:36:28.065-07:00The Defense of the Beast - Post Mortem [?] Part II of III For the Günter Grass Poem Controversy<br />
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 20.0pt;">The Defense of the Beast<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 20.0pt;">Which will also have a summary of my
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://artscritic.blogspot.com/">http://artscritic.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 20.0pt;">by the middle of May, 2012</span></u></b></span><b><span style="color: #000066; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<b><span style="background: silver; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">What is the difference if an Eskimo or Guenter
Grass emphasizes the wellknown fact that the current Israeli Netanjahu
government, with backing of U.S imperialists, has already rehearsed an attack
on Iran,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: silver; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">unforforseeable conquences? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: silver; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Or whether a really old piece of Nazi driftwood,
or shoeleather, of a kind that you want to lacquer, say from Carinthia or
Styria, Austria - <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: silver; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">about the only places you can still find their
likes…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Thomas Anz, <span style="color: #202020;">Tariq Ali, Khalid Amayreh</span> Jakob Augstein , Luc Bondy, Misha Brumlick, Noam Chomsky, Esther Dischereit, Guenter Grass, Peter Handke, Luc Bondy, <span style="color: #202020;">Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Keller, Ekkehart Krippendorff, </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; color: #202020; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Domenico Losurdo, </span></b><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Gideon Levy, <span style="color: #202020;">Yitzhak Laor,</span> Robert Lowell, Adolf Muschg, <span style="color: #202020;">Norman Paech,</span> Alexander Schleber, von Schloendorf, <a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/mitarbeiterinfo.php?rez_id=1302"><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jan Süselbeck</span></a> Fritz Stern, <span style="color: #202020;">Rolf Verleger, Michel Warschawski,</span> Martin Walser, Moishe Zuckermann,<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">came to the defense or at the very least had differentiated takes instead of shouting anti-semitism and showering the poem with phantasmagoric projections.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">As did Haaretz, Salon, Huffington [to make up for first publishing two attacks?], and Mondoweiss in this country and in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">I am not enumerating the numerous blogs right now or the numerous German papers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">The archive with nearly everything,<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">A huge archive meanwhile is</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"> at:<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: fuchsia; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></pre>
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Zeitung, La Repubblica in Italy, and Las Pais in Madrid published a peace poem
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provinces! Most of the major players pro and con have barked! Zionist hoodlums
are breaking up Leftist support group meetings! It is the way controversies
peter out – twenty years after you still find signs advertising “Unisex”
barbershops in Mexico!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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positive and differentiated takes on the now notorious Günter Grass poem [full
text in Kraut and Anglo-Saxon at the end]; the whole range of the controversy
can be found in a wealth of sufficiency – hundreds upon hundreds – at its
archive:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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most though not all negative attacks on the Grass poem. After you take a close
look who the people and the organs are who take that position you discover that
a high percentage are either American, Israeli or German Neo-Cons. It was a
puzzling phenomenon since an Israeli/ Netanjahu pre-emptive attack on Iran is a
matter that has been discussed for years, you can find any number of articles
on the subject, say in the New York Times, the subject appears in all kinds of
Think Tanks [Think Tank!], and not just those with a straight-forward paranoid
imperialistic agenda. </span></b></span><b><span style="background: silver; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">If you live in the United States, as I do, such an
observation looks like old news after Netanyahu's recent visit to</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"> <span style="background: silver; mso-highlight: silver;">Washington and his address to AIPAC. Grass indeed seems to operate
within the modern traditon of Joyce's wish to be "the conscience of the
race;" which seems a wonderful thing the first time you as a teenager read
it in PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST. Ah to be not only an artist but a conscience!!!
Presumptuous and contradictory, and unnecessarily self-righteous as Grass
actions as consience have been over the years, however the truth of the
substance of his charge needs to be addressed</span>. </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Thus, being
puzzled why Grass being so worried in his own grumbly way about the matter
upset the hell out of these folks - e.g. Netanyahoo to comment half a dozen
times on the matter, and have Grass forbidden from entering Israel [what’s
next, a burning of Grass’s books, to put the seal of Nazification on the current 2012 Israel government?] - I
concluded that I agreed with Dr. Fritz Stern of Columbia University description,
in his fine FAZ interview with Felicitas von Lovenberg, of the Netanjahu
government as being “aggressive-defensive yet insecure” and that this
description also fit the likes of those who wrote the fiercest attacks on
Grass; Josef Joffee, Jakob Heilbrunn, Wolfsohm, Tobin, Strittmatter, etc etc.
etc; an echo chamber of insecurity reassuring itself transatlantically at
electronic speed. (That little Kashubian
mother, look at what he did, and with “last ink”!) <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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thought I think you can see why they might be insecure. After all, the last
pre-emptive attacks that these folk championed did not go all that well, and
its perpetrators have the good fortune that only come “the last judgment” will
they be condemned, but they believe as little in the last judgment as they did
that Iraqui crop dusters posed a threat to the United States or even if there
had been any WMDs there was any way any of them might have reached Washington.
That little white cloud that cried did so only in Condoleezza Rice’s mind – if
you give that woman credit for a mind that can stoop to such propaganda. Hey,
finally a woman war criminal, ready for the gallows!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Another reason why the Neo-Cons might be so
insecure might be because they have at least a dim awareness that attacking
Iran will not be a shlock and awe cakewalk as overwhelming a just thoroughly
defeated and sanctioned Saddam Hussein had been. And I would put it to all
those “Wolfie” Neo-Cons, they prefer cakewalks,<i> <u>these</u> imperialists are cowards. </i>But that is also why they
are so aggressive, the entire Neo-Con axis as it runs from Washington, I nearly
said “Bonn” but need to say Berlin, to Tel Aviv Jerusalem. An attack on Iran –
the consequences are truly unforeseeable. Which is why Netanjahu/ Liebermann
need to have their back covered by Berlin and Washington. Six German Delphins
submarines, one of which launched just this past Saturn’s day [see photos below
and LINK below], Cinco de Mayo, in that ancient Nordic war-ship building port
the German navy port Kiel, each equipped with ten launchers capable of
delivering nuclear tipped rockets certainly eases some of the anxiety. Guenter Grass
gave the axis a small jolt, it over-reacted didn’t it? The poem brought the
port patrol out into the waters on launch day. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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the Neo-Cons reacted as though snake-bit! They never quoted the poem, merely
showered it with hate and accusations of anti-Semitism! And found minor matters
that they could quarrel with, those wonderful Neo-Cons who mistranslate from
the Persian and exaggerate the threat Iran poses both in the short and the long
run. They need another war, and they need another villain, and TV needs another real reality show. And I imagine the
contractors need more work and Raytheon needs to sell more rockets and drones.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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defense and differentiated takes on the Grass poem features some magnificent
pieces by first rate minds and I may add comments to some of them, and I wish I
could translate some of the long German pieces, especially a very instructive
one at the end that fits the poem within Grass 1990 Poetics Lecture at
Frankfurt University and some of his later work where he appears to hold the
view that the German, too, were victims – of their elite I would say and a
legal system gone a.w.o.l.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<pre><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">One of my chief purposes in “A” had been to point out how irrelevant the charge of anti-Semitism was even if it were true. What Grass stated might have been said by the one SS General I was once keen on hearing at an NPD meeting in Munich just after the 1967 Six Day War. That then still strapping fellw congratulated Moshe Dayan on having been such a good student of German methods, a cheer that was greeted by the grunting old warriors, the grunting from the sadistic heart of the world I felt as I eased my way as quietly as possible on little cats feet out of that beer hall. It is simply the case that an Israeli pre-emptive attack needs to be discussed as a bit more than just another lark in the Middle East; such as the demotion of Mossadegh; that German unconditional support needs to be discussed; as do German arms for Israel. But for reasons that are not completely clear and convincing to me, Günter Grass chose this form to state what just about everyone knew, and so managed to stir up a hornet’s nest. Is it because those whom he addressed venerate the written word and especially the poetic, coming from a major writer who indeed has written a few major books? Thus what he said stung! People like Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini were sensitive in that respect, I don’t recall how President Johnson was to the play <u>McBird</u>, to Robert Lowell poems or to Country Joe & the Fish’s <u>Vietnam Rag</u>. The point about being insecure yet passive-aggressive is that you can’t tell what governments of that kind might do from one moment to the next. Meanwhile Netanyahoo has got a lot of flack from notalbesl inside Israel. Maybe Grass is angling to add the Nobel Peace prize to his other laurels???<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<pre><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">One question I will not ignore that the controversy has raised is whether being critical of an Israeli government is the new form of anti-Semitism. It is my guess that is a question that those who are so critical will need to ask themselves. On the other hand, Netanyahoo and Liebermann make it easy! If they are the only Jews you ever noticed, just as George W. Bush was candy for anti-Americanism! But then, what country could you be for if you identified it with its leader? I am really pro-Zimbabwen these days! Actually, there is one that instantly springs to mind: I am very pro-Nigerian, not only because of my wonderful Nigerian friends but also because I so much like its president, the wonderfully named Goodluck Jonathan with whom I am in occasional contact via facebook! Poor Goodluck with all his overwhelming problems!</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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in the journal his father founded in 1945, in der Spiegel, was the first major
defense of many. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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debate on Israel with a new poem.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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German writer Günter Grass has been blasted as an anti-Semite this week for
making just such a claim in a new poem. But while the verse may not win any
awards, Grass has kicked off an important -- and long overdue -- debate. And,
he's right.</span></strong><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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analysis. But the brief lines that Günter Grass has published under the title
"What Must Be Said" will one day be seen as some of his most
influential words. They mark a rupture. It is this one sentence that we will
not be able to ignore in the future</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">: "Israel's atomic power endangers an already fragile world
peace."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outcry. Because it is true. Because it is a German, an author, a Nobel laureate
who said it. Because it is Günter Grass who said it. And therein lies the
breach. And, for that, one should thank Grass. He has taken it upon himself to
utter this sentence for all of us. A much-delayed dialogue has begun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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preparing a war against Iran, a country whose leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened
Israel, referring to it as a "cancer" that must be "wiped off
the map." Israel, a country that has been surrounded by enemies for
decades, many of whom believe that Israel has no right to exist -- even
independent of its policies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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abyss. When a German speaks about such things, Germany must be part of the
discussion -- and Germany's historical responsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Damit hat Augstein auf den Punkt gebracht,
was eigentlich des Pudels Kern sein sollte: Die werkimmanente Forderung von
Günter Grass an die Deutschen, nicht länger die Augen zu verschließen vor einem
militärischen Konflikt im Nahen Osten, einer drohenden kriegerischen Auseinandersetzung,
an der auch Deutschland, womöglich auch aus einer historischen Schuld, sich zu
Unrecht beteiligen könnte. Sei es mit Waffenlieferungen, U-Booten oder
anderweitiger Unterstützung der einen Seite, nämlich Israels.<br />
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Wie wenig antisemitisch sein Freund Grass, mit dem er zusammen die
"Blechtrommel" verfilmt hatte, wirklich sei, musste sodann auch
nochmal Regisseur Volker Schlöndorff per Einspieler berichten. Schließlich habe
er sein Werk Wort für Wort auseinandergenommen und sei mit ihm durch die ganze
Welt gereist - dieser Vorwurf treffe Grass wohl auch deshalb besonders hart,
weil er nicht damit gerechnet habe. Und in der Tat: Einen großen Teil seines
Gedichtes verwendet Grass ja gerade darauf, zu betonen, wie schwer es
ausgerechnet ihm als Deutschen mit seiner Vergangenheit falle, über dieses so
empfindliche Thema zu schreiben. Dass er es aber trotzdem tun müsse, weil es
ihm und für den Weltfrieden so wichtig sei.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<pre><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">M<b>ost interesting I found two contributions to the debate from Beck Verlag’s first rate Literatur Kritik [see anon] One, Anz’s reading in defense of the poem - which generally falls by the wayside, all that the discussants extract from it is a few simple minded op-ed opinions; and</b></span><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: silver; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;"><a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/mitarbeiterinfo.php?rez_id=1302">Jan Süselbeck</a><a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/mitarbeiterinfo.php?rez_id=1302">‘s</a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>“Werk immanente” reading of the poem – that comes at the very end and I put in in its entirety, so you won’t need to go online. And I will comment on it. <a href="http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/mitarbeiterinfo.php?rez_id=1302"><span style="color: windowtext;">Jan Süselbeck</span></a> makes out a good case that Grass might already have written that poem around 1990 when he gave the poetics lectures in Frankfurt. Nearly 70 years a Social Democrat, accused by Neo-Cons of an SS career [of three months] it does appear that Grass does feel that the Germans too were victims, an interesting but as far as I am concerned secondary subject all right. The American people, too, are victims.<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></pre>
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"Antisemiten suchen die Nähe der Juden, fühlen sich ihnen verbunden - etwa
so, wie Kannibalen von Frischfleisch angezogen werden."</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Auf diese Weise lässt sich
jeder als Antisemit denunzieren. Das ist die Logik von George Orwells
"Animal Farm". So läuft er, der typisch deutsche Ausgrenzungs-diskurs.<br />
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Keinem Abiturienten hätte man solche grotesken Unterstellungen, böswilligen
Fehlurteile und absurden Konjekturen durchgehen lassen wie die, die über Grass'
Gedicht in vielen Medien verbreitet wurden. Der Sturm des Unsinns gipfelte in
der literature-wissenschaftlich schlicht unhaltbaren Behauptung, "Was
gesagt werden muss" sei überhaupt kein Gedicht. Es mag ein schlechtes, es
mag ein inopportunes Gedicht sein. Aber es ist nun mal ein Gedicht, ob es uns
passt oder nicht, und zwar eines von enormer tagespolitischer Wirksamkeit.</span><br />
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inszenierten Menschenhatzen. Vielleicht rührt daher mein Eindruck, mit der
Debatte um Grass' Gedicht "Was gesagt werden muss" Zeuge der
schwärzesten Stunde der deutschen Literaturkritik während meiner bisherigen Lebenszeit
geworden zu sein<br />
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man Israel richtig</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;">?<br />
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the crime of poetry<br />
In his poem, Nobel laureate Günter Grass criticises Israel and condemns German
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unmask hypocrisy?</span><br />
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">The poem by Nobel
prize-winning writer Gunter Grass describes eloquently the injustice and double
standards by which criticisms of Muslims is a given while similar viewpoints on
Jews are labelled anti-Semitic</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Israel’s anti anti-Semitic vigilantism must not muzzle free speech</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<b><span style="background: silver; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">Brilliant pieces on the subject,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: silver; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: silver;">I quote Zuckermann’s </span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;">first.<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Kaum ein Begriff wird in Deutschland
derart inflationär und verantwortungslos verwendet wie der des Antisemitismus.
Das aber schadet dessen Bekämpfung.VON MOSHE ZUCKERMANN</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://consortiumnews.com/2012/04/10/demonizing-gunter-grass/</span><br />
<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Demonizing Gunter Grass<br />
April 10, 2012<br />
Exclusive: German poet Gunter Grass is under withering attack for writing a
poem that urges Germany to stop supplying nuclear submarines to Israel, objects
to Israel’s threat of war against Iran and suggests both countries accept
nuclear inspectors. That last idea has opened Grass to charges of “moral
equivalence,” notes Robert Parry.<br />
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http://www.budapesttimes.hu/2012/04/16/poetry-attack-says-far-too-much-for-furious-israel/<br />
Poetry attack says far too much for furious Israel<br />
Posted on 16 April 2012<br />
Israel has banned Germany’s most prominent literary figure and Nobel Prize
recipient from entering the country following the publication of a
controversial poem condemning Israel’s policies against Iran. Günter Grass’
“What Must Be Said” appeared in Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper last
week, unleashing a storm of criticism in both countries.<br />
What was said<br />
The poem says a nuclear-armed Israel claiming the right of first strike over
Iran “is endangering a world peace that is already fragile”, and that Israel’s
nuclear facilities – along with those of Iran – must come under permanent
international monitoring.<br />
“What Must Be Said” criticises Germany for its plans to deliver to Israel
submarines capable of carrying nuclear-armed missiles. Israel, whose own
nuclear resources remain unquantified, is widely expected to launch a
pre-emptive strike against Iranian sites to deter the development of the
latter’s nuclear capacities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Gunter Grass Is Absolutely Correct
About the Israeli Apartheid Regime</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">By Khalid Amayreh</span><br />
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">PIC, Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, April
16, 2012<br />
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German poet and Nobel literature laureate Gunter Grass deserves to be applauded
for his moral courage, intellectual honesty, and audacity to challenge some of
the established taboos pertaining to Israel and Jews.<br />
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In a piece of poetry published by a German newspaper last week, Grass, 84,
condemned his country's arm sales to Israel, saying the Jewish state must not
be allowed to threaten its neighbors with overwhelming conventional and nuclear
weapons.<br />
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http://tinyurl.com/d2nz9xp<br />
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or:</span><br />
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;"><a href="http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20Editorials/2012/April/16%20o/Gunter%20Grass%20Is%20Absolutely%20Correct%20About%20the%20Israeli%20Apartheid%20Regime%20By%20Khalid%20Amayreh.htm">http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20Editorials/2012/April/16%20o/Gunter%20Grass%20Is%20Absolutely%20Correct%20About%20the%20Israeli%20Apartheid%20Regime%20By%20Khalid%20Amayreh.htm</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Israel should never forget its Mideast
atrocities<br />
The major problem in the Grass affair is not the way Israel blackmails every
German. Rather, it's Israelis' inability to understand this country other than
through the way it's portrayed in our media.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">By Yitzhak Laor</span><br />
<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">The person who symbolized
"the other Germany" more than anyone in West Germany, the person who
was Germany's conscience throughout his literary career, has made the Israeli
establishment and its clones crazy. These people have responded pettily and
violently. Gunter Grass' service in the Wafen SS when he was 17 has nothing to
do with his positions. You need lots of chutzpah and maybe even ignorance to
think the Germans don't know how many despicable Nazis Israel catered to, as
long as they supported its policies</span>.<br />
<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/israel-should-never-forget-its-mideast-atrocities-1.424506</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Interview with Opposition Leader Gabriel<br />
'We Have Much to Thank Grass For'</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,827752,00.html</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Hintergrund zu Wort. Kommentare zur Grass-Debatte von Moshe Zuckermann, Noam
Chomsky, Domenico Losurdo, Rolf Verleger, Ekkehart Krippendorff, Norman Paech,
Adam Keller, Michel Warschawski, Tariq Ali, Yonatan Shapira, Yakov M. Rabkin
und Moshé Machover –</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Was hat Günter Grass gesagt, das die in
Deutschland ausgebrochene Hysterie, wenn schon nicht zu begründen, so zumindest
zu erklären vermöchte? Die Erwartungen können sogleich aufs Normalmaß des
Diskutierbaren heruntergeschraubt werden: Nichts, was in Israel selbst nicht
schon hundertfach gesagt und erörtert worden wäre. Nichts, was man im Hinblick
auf Fakten bzw. aufs begründbar Mögliche lapidar infrage stellen könnte. Zwar
hat man in Israel den „Erstschlag“ in der Öffentlichkeit nirgends als nuklearen
diskutiert, daher auch die „Auslöschung des iranischen Volkes“ weder
thematisiert noch im Blickfeld gehabt. Dass aber Szenarien möglich sind, bei
denen der Einsatz von Nuklearwaffen mitgedacht werden muss, wird niemand in
Abrede stellen wollen, der Mögliches nicht tabuisieren, sondern zum
Ausgangspunkt von Verwirklichbarem nehmen möchte. Sollte nämlich Israels
Existenz ernsthaft bedroht sein, wird man wohl zum extremsten aller Israel zur
Verfügung stehenden Mittel greifen. Die Existenz Israels wird aber nicht durch
die (potentielle) iranische Atombombe bedroht – es gibt keinen Grund
anzunehmen, dass der Mullah-Staat sie gegen Israel einsetzen würde, wenn er
nicht das Risiko eingehen möchte, innerhalb weniger Tage selbst in Schutt und
Asche gelegt zu werden –, sondern durch die nichtnukleare Dynamik des Krieges,
der nach einem nichtatomaren Präventivschlag Israels gegen den Iran folgen
dürfte. Darüber haben israelische Militär- und Geheimdienstleute in den letzten
Wochen mehr als genug gesagt. Gewiss ist nichts, aber ein mehrwöchiger oder
-monatiger Krieg, bei dem Israel den Iran verwüstet, zugleich aber auch
israelische Städte einem täglichen Beschuss durch Langstreckenraketen (welche
die irakischen Scud-Raketen von 1991 wie ein Kinderspiel erscheinen lassen
würden) ausgesetzt sind, dürfte für Israel in vielerlei Hinsicht kaum
verkraftbar sein. Eine solche Kriegsdynamik, welche in der Tat den Einsatz
israelischer Nuklearwaffen zur Folge haben könnte, wäre nicht das Resultat der
realen Bedrohung Israels durch die (vorerst noch nicht existierende) iranische
Atombombe, sondern das Ergebnis des von Israel initiierten konventionellen
Erstschlags.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Nun kann man einwenden: quod
licet Iovi non licet bovi. Das stimmt aber nur, wenn man das „non licet“ nicht
nur den Ochsen, die einem ideologisch nicht genehm sind, auferlegt, sondern
auch jenen Ochsen, die sich anmaßen, einmal selbst Jupiter sein zu wollen. Jene
in Deutschland, die sich mit einem Israel solidarisieren, das dabei ist, sich
selbst zugrunde zu richten, sind nicht befreit von der Last, objektiv zu
befördern, wogegen sie sich vorgeblich in ihrer Solidarität richten. Dass sie
sich von ihren pro-israelischen Befindlichkeiten aus geschichtlichen Gründen
nicht loslösen können, sei ihnen nachgesehen – das neuralgische Verhältnis von
„Juden und Deutschen“ nach dem Holocaust wird sich nicht so schnell „kurieren“
lassen (vor allem aber sollte man sich vom Gedanken, etwas „wiedergutmachen“ zu
sollen, tunlichst verabschieden). Eine ganz andere Sache ist es aber, sich die
Befindlichkeit durch den Antisemitismus-Vorwurf zurecht zu ideologisieren. Man
verrät stets die historischen Opfer des Antisemitismus (besonders die des
deutschen eliminatorischen), wenn man diesen Begriff allzu unbeschwert in den
Mund nimmt, um sich in seinem eigenen identitären Defizit besser zu
positionieren. Günter Grass ist kein Antisemit (auch nicht „objektiv“ oder
„sekundär“, wie es im armseligen deutschen akademischen Diskurs in den letzten
Jahren zu diesem Begriff heißt). Man mag vieles an Grass aussetzen, nicht
zuletzt auch eine Selbstgefälligkeit, die nicht davor zurückschreckt, von
„letzter Tinte” zu reden. Aber ein Antisemit ist er nicht – es sei denn in den
Augen der Broders, Graumanns, Giordanos und Wolffsohns, denen das Wohl Israels
so am Herzen liegt, dass sie Israel – aus angemessener Entfernung! – emphatisch
„in Schutz“ nehmen, um sich für sein Wohl umso effektiver blind machen zu
können. Wer nicht zwischen Antisemitismus und berechtigter Israelkritik zu
unterscheiden vermag, sollte zumindest bescheidener auftreten, wenn er
selbstgewisse Verdikte ausspricht: das Jahrzehnte alte Okkupationsregime
Israels (und andere Erscheinungen im israelischen Alltag, die hier unerörtert
bleiben mögen) straft die schablonenhafte Larmoyanz dieser „Israel-Solidarität“
Lügen. Die in Deutschland lebende „jüdische Intelligenz“ ist die letzte, die
den Anspruch erheben könnte, sich um Israel realiter Sorgen zu machen: zu sehr
reagiert sie komplementär zum befindlichkeitsschwangeren Diskurs der
nichtjüdischen „Deutschen“. Grass seine jugendliche SS-Vergangenheit
anzulasten, ist eine Sache; eine ganz andere, ihn zum Antisemiten zu machen, um
ein menschenrechtsverletzendes Israel zu verteidigen</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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http://www.hintergrund.de/201204062011/feuilleton/zeitfragen/was-auch-noch-gesagt-werden-muss.html</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="background: lime; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Das Hauptargument
ist richtig. Vielleicht ist es für Deutschland neu, aber andernorts ist es
geläufig. Sogar der ehemalige Leiter der STRATCOM – des strategischen
US-Kommandos, das für Atomwaffen zuständig ist – warnte vor Jahren schon, dass
Israels Nuklearwaffen „äußerst gefährlich“ seien.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Danke Günter Grass!<br />
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Endlich gibt es eine Stimme, die das zur Provokation und zum Skandal erheben kann,
was seit Jahren bekannt ist aber weitgehend verschwiegen wird. Ich meine nicht
nur das Schweigen der Medien, in denen der Tatbestand zwar mitunter erwähnt,
aber letztlich akzeptiert wurde. Es geht um die Politik, die allein die
Gefährdung des „brüchigen Weltfriedens“ (G. Grass) abwenden könnte. Sie
unternimmt dagegen nichts, sie treibt die Gefahr sogar voran mit der Lieferung
von U-Booten, deren „Spezialität darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe
dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen
ist“ (G. Grass).<br />
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Das ist unmissverständlich und klar, emphatisch in der Form eines Gedichtes,
das sich zwar nicht reimt, aber den Aufschrei eines Schriftstellers, der sein
langes Schweigen gegen die Heuchelei zunehmend als Lüge nicht mehr ertragen
kann, umso glaubhafter macht. Eine Atommacht, die fast täglich Kriegsdrohungen
gegen einen Nachbarstaat ausstößt, sodass nicht mehr darüber diskutiert wird,
ob, sondern nur noch darüber, wann der Angriff erfolgt, ist eine Gefahr für den
Weltfrieden. Auch die Leugnung des Holocaust, die Zweifel an der Beteuerung,
Atomkraft nur für zivile Zwecke einsetzen zu wollen, und die Angst vor einer
feindlich gesinnten Regierung geben keine Rechtfertigung für die Drohung mit
einem Angriff. Denn Teheran hat nie mit einem Krieg gegen Israel gedroht. Wer
aber in dieser Situation noch Trägersysteme für den Abschuss der
Atomsprengköpfe liefert, kann seine „Mitschuld durch keine der üblichen
Ausreden tilgen“, wenn es zu ihrem Einsatz kommt. Was ist empörender, der
Tatbestand oder seine klare Benennung, die Warnung?<br />
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Für die Meute des Feuilletons und die aufgebrachten Chargen der Politik ist es
die Warnung des Autors und nicht die Kriegsdrohung des Staates. Wäre es nicht
Israel, wäre alle Welt alarmiert. Sie greifen zum Schraubenzieher (G.
Schirrmacher, FAZ), um Gedicht und Autor soweit auseinanderzunehmen und zu
zerlegen, bis die Botschaft verschwimmt und nur noch ein „Machwerk des
Ressentiments, literarisch ohne Wert“ und ein „alter egozentrischer und pathetischer
Mann“ übrig bleiben. Getroffene Hunde bellen. Die ganzen Kübel von Unflat,
Dreck, Hass und Ressentiments, die dieses Heer „mietbarer Zwerge“ (B. Brecht)
über Günter Grass ausschüttet, lassen bei mir nur eine Reihe unangenehmer
Eindrücke zurück: Neid über die Resonanz, die dieser Autor wieder einmal
mobilisieren konnte. Hass gegenüber einem Autor, den man noch nie leiden
konnte, literarisch wie politisch. Ablenkung von einem Tatbestand, weil man
gegen ihn kaum argumentieren kann. Empörung über den Angriff auf ein Tabu, das
man immer umschlichen und vermieden hat. Und hoffentlich auch Betroffenheit
über das eigene lange Schweigen, dessen Berechtigung jetzt so eindeutig
widerlegt worden ist.<br />
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Günter Grass ist seinem Protest gegen Atomwaffen, den er 1983 vor Mutlangen
öffentlich gemacht hat, treu geblieben und hat ihn mit diesem Gedicht noch
einmal verstärkt. Spät aber hoffentlich nicht zu spät – und dafür müssen wir
ihm danken.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Prof. Norman Paech war bis
zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2005 Hochschullehrer für Öffentliches Recht an
der Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik Hamburg. Er ist Mitglied im
Wissenschaftlichen Beirat von Attac und als Politiker in der Partei Die Linke
aktiv.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Günter Grass kann seiner
Wahrheit nicht ausweichen, auch wenn sie Kontroversen auslöst. Das Traurige
daran ist, dass das Aufzeigen der gefährlichen und selbstmörderischen Seiten
israelischer Regierungspolitik – wie wir es ebenfalls sehen – etwas berührt,
„was nicht gesagt werden kann“.</span><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Adam Keller ist Sprecher
der israelischen Friedensinitiative Gush Shalom</span><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">MICHEL WARSCHAWSKI</span><br />
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">„Es ist reiner Antisemitismus,
zumeist zum Pessach-Fest wirft der klassische europäische Geist den Juden
Ritualmorde vor“, reagierte der israelische Gesandte in Berlin auf das jüngste
Gedicht von Günter Grass. Man kann leicht erraten, dass das Wissen des
Botschaftssprechers über mittelalterliche jüdische Geschichte nicht besser ist
als seine Kenntnis über Günter Grass' großartiges Werk. Ein Liliputaner hat
einen Riesen angegriffen und man fordert die Rückgabe des Nobelpreises vom
Autor der Blechtrommel und des Butt! Wie pathetisch …<br />
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Wenn man den Inhalt nicht angreifen kann, wird derjenige persönlich – ad
hominem – angegangen: Grass’ Nazi-Vergangenheit als Teenager und seine
gegenwärtige Stellung als Deutscher. Ein Deutscher ist seinem Wesen nach ein
Antisemit, ausgenommen er beteuert seine bedingungslose Unterstützung des
Staates Israel und dessen Regierung. In seinem letzten Text hat Günter Grass
beschlossen, diese unakzeptable Erpressung zu ignorieren und die Gefahr, die
von einem eventuellen israelischen Angriff auf den Iran ausgeht, anzuprangern.
Damit gehört er auf die Schwarze Liste.<br />
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Für ehrbare Menschen macht die mutige Stellungnahme von Günter Grass ihn zu
einem Anwärter für einen zweiten Nobelpreis – den Friedensnobelpreis.</span><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Michel Warschawski ist ein
israelischer Friedensaktivist und Publizist. Er war viele Jahre lang
Vorsitzender der israelisch-palästinensischen Organisation Alternative
Information Centre.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.hintergrund.de/201204062011/feuilleton/zeitfragen/was-auch-noch-gesagt-werden-muss.html</span><br />
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Günter Grass hatte bereits die
Antwort auf sein Gedicht in der Süddeutschen Zeitung vorausgesehen. Es gibt
keinen Grund überrascht zu sein, aber es gibt allen Grund angewidert zu sein.
Innerhalb Deutschlands scheinen sowohl die Elite als auch eine Schicht der
Bevölkerung in ihren Worten und Taten die infamen Thesen Goldhagens akzeptiert
zu haben, nach denen alle Deutschen für die Verbrechen des Dritten Reiches
schuldig waren. Dieses Denken basiert auf dem zionistischen und zionophilen
Argument, die Verbrechen gegen die europäischen Juden seien einzigartig in den
Annalen der Geschichte. Das war richtig, soweit es die Methode der Vernichtung
betrifft, aber nicht in anderer Hinsicht. Die Belgier massakrierten weit mehr
Kongolesen, dem Historiker Adam Hochschild zufolge über zehn Millionen. Die
Ermordung der Armenier während des Ersten Weltkrieges war systematisch, und wir
könnten fortfahren und die nukleare Bombardierung Hiroshimas und Nagasakis
erörtern, aber ein Massaker oder einen Genozid mit einem anderen zu
vergleichen, ist ein aussichtsloses Unterfangen. Raul Hilberg, der maßgebliche
Historiker des jüdischen Holocaust, war erzürnt über die Instrumentalisierung,
die diese Verbrechen heutzutage erfahren</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Over the past week, German
newspapers, politicians and intellectuals have leveled outrageous and baseless
accusations against the renowned writer Günter Grass in response to his
political poem “What Must Be Said,” in which he warns of an Israeli attack on
Iran. (See “Stop the warmongers! </span><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Defend Günter Grass!”)</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Als israelischer Aktivist und
ehemaliger Hauptmann und Pilot der israelischen Luftwaffe (ein<br />
Teil der „moralischsten Armee der Welt“) denke ich, die Hysterie sollte sich
gegen die anhaltende Politik der Apartheid, des Mordens und der ethnischen
Säuberungen durch die israelische Regierung und nicht gegen Grass’ Gedicht
richten.</span><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Danke, Herr Grass!<br />
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Leo Tolstoi hat einmal gesagt, je näher man an der Wahrheit ist, desto mehr
toleriert man die Fehler anderer. Nach diesem Kriterium gibt der Staat Israel
mit dem Einreiseverbot für Günter Grass zu, ziemlich weit von der Wahrheit
entfernt zu sein. Der 84-jährige Nobelpreisträger hat in der Tat eine
empfindliche Stelle der zionistischen Psyche berührt</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Die Hysterie, mit der Günter
Grass’ Gedicht aufgenommen wurde, wäre komisch, wenn sie nicht so tragisch
wäre.<br />
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Es scheint, die Zionisten glauben, die Deutschen müssten für den Völkermord an
Juden – begangen von einer vorangegangenen Generation – sühnen, Deutschland
müsse jetzt bei der Unterdrückung und ethnischen Säuberung palästinensischer
Araber mit dem selbsternannten „jüdischen Staat“ zusammenwirken.<br />
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">It is deeply troubling that what begins as a positive
impulse—to be constantly alert to manifestations of antisemitism—so often ends
in such bitter disagreement or worse. One assumes that the motives behind
exposing antisemitism are to defend democratic values, tolerance, racial
equality and the right to maintain religious and ethnic difference. And yet, in
the reactions ↑ of Prime Minister Netanyahu, who said he was sure that Grass’s
motives were antisemitic, and the announcement by his interior minister, Eli
Yishai ↑ , that Günter Grass is ‘persona non grata’ in Israel, Israel was shown
worldwide to be attacking freedom of speech, showing disdain for democracy,
indulging in crude stereotyping of Germans and, by playing the antisemitism
card, purporting to defend the interests of Jews worldwide while actually doing
precisely the opposite. Even some who applauded the original condemnation of
Grass by various major political figures in Germany and elsewhere, concluded
that Israel had shot itself in the foot ↑ with Yishai’s statement.<br />
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Netanyahu must stop hiding behind Holocaust warnings<br />
When basic issues that remain unresolved for years meet up with external
threats, the shadow of the Holocaust comes to the fore as a traumatic reminder
of what the future could hold.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Haaretz Editorial</span><br />
<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/netanyahu-must-stop-hiding-behind-holocaust-warnings-1.424963</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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In an era in which the lifespan of news items is measured in hours rather than
days, the poem “What Must Be Said” by playwright and poet Günter Grass managed
to remain in German headlines for more than a week. Why was the criticism of
the contents of the poem (which earned the description “disgusting” by one
literary critic) as widespread as it was? What raw nerve did Grass touch that
set off the controversy? Was there anything new, really, in the poem’s motifs?
What may be concluded about the relation between the two nations from the
debate that flared up, or can nothing be learned about Germany’s conduct on the
issue Grass used so cynically, i.e., Germany’s response to the possibility of
an Israeli military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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understand Grass’s motives to publish the poem, many commentators are driven to
explore the poet himself, i.e., his advanced age and the narcissistic
tendencies that he and other elderly notables, who find it hard to make peace
with sinking into public obscurity, develop to cope with their situation, and
who know that there is nothing better for reminding everyone of their existence
than using loaded subjects such as Israel and Jews. The chance that statements
such as the ones made by Grass would pass unnoticed was zero. In this sense,
Grass was wildly successful, though his success was twinned with the question
of his anti-Semitism. Most critics opined that he is not an anti-Semite even if
he, according to most critics, made use of anti-Semitic clichés in his critique
of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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poem’s main themes one finds nothing new; these have accompanied Israel-Germany
relations for a long time. Grass’s statement that Israel (as a nuclear nation)
jeopardizes world peace is not new. Those who follow Israel’s image in German
public opinion in particular, and European public opinion in general, remember an
opinion poll undertaken by the EU at the height of the second Intifada (October
2003) among fifteen EU members. One of the questions referred to the nations
representing a threat to world peace; 59% of respondents ranked Israel first,
ahead of the United States, North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Furthermore, the use Grass makes of words (the elimination of the Iranian
people, or Germany’s partnership in the crime Israel is going to commit) with
their clear echoes to the Nazi era is also not new. During Israel’s battle
against Palestinian terrorism all through the years of the second Intifada,
media coverage included reportage that used Nazi terminology to describe
Israel’s conduct against the Palestinians (this is not the place to expand on
the issue of how German society confronts its sense of guilt; suffice it to say
that the ability to point to the victim, in this case Israel, as currently
representing the collective Jew as a victim that has, through its own conduct,
become a murderer, helps it cope with its unique sense of responsibility).</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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einer Empörung gewichen. Mit dem Einreiseverbot für Grass ist eine Grenze
überschritten worden. Die Freiheit des Wortes und die Freiheit der Kunst
implementiert auch das Recht auf eine falsche Meinung, das Recht auf einen
Irrtum. Wer das nicht respektiert verhält sich totalitär</span></b><b><span style="background: lime; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Ich bin ziemlich erschüttert.<br />
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Ich dachte, das neue freie Deutschland hätte sich langsam aus den sich selbst
auferlegten Fesseln gelöst.<br />
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Grass hat gezeigt, dass dem so nicht ist</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Als politisches
Kommentar ist das Grass Gedicht, das als Gedicht nicht viel taugt, eine
Binsenweisheit. Das so was Anti-Semitismus Beschuldigungen hervorruft zeugt von
der scheinbaren Unmoeglichkeit zwischen Juden und dem Staat Israel zu
unterscheiden, und von der andauernden Unausgeglichenheit des Deutschen
Schuldgefuehls.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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be a dozen interesting entries at Der Freitag,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;">FREITAG,
6. APRIL 2012<br />
<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Was gesagt werden muss -
Solidarität mit Günter Grass<br />
Die Aufregung ist erschreckend, denn einer der größten deutschen Schriftsteller
Nachkriegsdeutschlands hat es tatsächlich gewagt, sich mit einem Gedicht
friedenspolitisch zu positionieren und damit - so die veröffentlichte pro-zionistische
Meinung - den über alles erhabenen "Staat Israel" angegriffen. Dies
ist natürlich das kapitale Verbrechen schlechthin. Allerspätestens seit dem die
Interessen des zionistischen Staates seitens einer deutschen Bundesregierung
höher bewertet werden als eigene deutsche.<br />
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Günter Grass will keinen Krieg gegen den Iran. Gut. Er will schon gar keinen,
der mit an den zionistischen Staat gelieferten deutschen U-Booten geführt
werden könnte. Noch besser. Als orthodoxer Jude kann man diese Haltung nur untersützen.
Denn nur so würde sich Deutschland wirklich seiner "historischen
Verantwortung" bewusst sowie dem Grundgesetz gerecht werden und ließe sich
vor allem nicht noch einmal in ein verheerendes Kriegsabenteuer
hineinmanövieren. Der Dichter will das nicht - so verstehen wir ihn zumindest -
weil er vollkommen zurecht nicht einsieht, dass ein neuer vom Nationalzionismus
provozierter Weltbrand zudem noch mit deutscher Unterstützung entstehen sollte.<br />
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In den Augen selbsternannter Judensprecher der zionistischen Botschaft und des
Zentralrates, den üblichen von der Springer-Presse oder von
Bundes-Wehrmacht-Akademien ausgehaltenen Alibijuden ist wahrlich kein Frieden
mit dem Friedensgedicht von Grass zu machen, denn sie ziehen ihre
alt-verstaubten und fanatisch-zionistischen Register selbst aus der untersten
Schublade, wenn es darum geht einen Großen der deutschen Literaturwelt als
"antisemitisch" motiviert diffamieren zu können.<br />
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Der Dichter selbst ist doch alles andere als ein "Antizionist" und
wenn es inhaltich und aus Sicht des authentisch-orthodoxen Judentums innerhalb
des Gedichtes etwas zu kritisieren gäbe, dann wäre das eher der unreflektierte
und mit nichts zu rechtfertigende Seitenhieb gegen den die jüdische Gemeinde
des Iran unterstützenden Präsidenten der Islamischen Repub…CTD</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">"It is, for example, possible that
when he asked, in the poem, why he had "stayed silent" for so long
about the "hypocrisy of the West" in relation to the Middle East, and
why he had "forbidden" himself to name the country whose nuclear
weapons he regarded as a threat to world peace, he was actually asking himself
why he had stayed silent. It's possible that when he said he hadn't spoken out
before because he came from a country with "a stain" on its history
that was "never to be expunged," and knew that if he did speak out he
would be called an anti-Semite, what he meant was that he didn't particularly
want to be called an anti-Semite. And not that he did.<br />
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And it's possible that when he said that he had decided to speak out anyway,
because he was old and might not have many more opportunities, and because he
thought that Germans, already "burdened" with a terrible past, might
be "complicit" in future horrors if they didn't, that is exactly what
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may have lacked elegance, but it was also a dire warning about war with Iran<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Günter Grass has irritated, provoked and outraged people everywhere. As
Germany’s greatest living writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, he has
also raised a question both inconvenient and impolite. How can decent people
support a preemptive war against Iran for moving ever closer to a limited
nuclear capability and, at the same time, turn a blind eye to Israel’s
extensive arsenal of existing atomic bombs?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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country with so much Jewish blood on its hands, this is – or was – a question
that no Good German should ask in public. It was even more verboten when asked
by someone who had belatedly admitted that as a teenager he had served, however
briefly, in the Nazi paramilitary unit, the Waffen SS. But the 84-year-old
Grass dared to break the taboo. He spoke out and said “What Must Be Said.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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hesitate to name<br />
that other land in which<br />
for years—although kept secret—<br />
a growing nuclear power has existed<br />
beyond supervision or verification,<br />
subject to no inspection of any kind?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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would be branded an anti-Semite, as he has been in full measure, Grass named
Israel and called its atomic power a threat to “an already fragile world peace.”
Nor did he stop there. He berated his own country for complicity by selling the
Israelis “yet another submarine equipped to transport nuclear warheads.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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another. The Germans are planning to similarly subsidize the sale of the latest
submarine.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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submarines are enough to drag down any poem, and “What Must Be Said” lacks
elegance and grace, at least in the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/05/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said?INTCMP=SRCH"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: red; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">English
translation</span></a> by Breon Mitchell. But as a poet, Grass risks even
more in suggesting a political solution. Our leaders should renounce the use of
force, he writes, directly countering Obama’s insistence on keeping a military
option on the table. And they should “insist that the governments of both Iran
and Israel allow an international authority free and open inspection of the
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they stuck it to the nationalists with this Robert Lowell quote from a letter
to Elizabeth Bishop(2)</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Did the late war scare you to death? It did me while
it was simmering. We had a great wave of New York Jewish nationalism, all the
doves turning into hawks. Well, my heart is in Israel, but it was a little like
a blitzkrieg against the Commanches—armed by Russia. Nasser is like a Mussolini
ruling some poverty stricken part of India. I never saw a country I would less
like to stay in, yet the Egyptians were mostly subtle and sad and attractive.</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Was war Ihre erste Reaktion,
als Sie vom Inhalt des sogenannten Gedichts von Günter Grass erfuhren?<br />
Um ehrlich zu sein: Es interessiert mich nicht besonders. Ich denke nicht, dass
dieses Gedicht irgendeine Bedeutung hat. Grass hatte schon immer problematische
Ansichten zu Israel und den Juden. Auch wenn andere seine Bemerkungen als
Antisemitismus bezeichnen – ich würde es nicht so nennen. Es ist einfach nur
so, dass er ein Problem mit Juden hat. Ich hatte 1991 eine Diskussion mit ihm
im deutschen Fernsehen. Ich wandte mich gegen die Tatsache, dass die deutsche
Linke gegen den damaligen Krieg der USA gegen den Irak protestierte, ohne
gleichzeitig gegen die Giftgaslieferungen deutscher Firmen an Saddam Hussein in
den achtziger Jahren zu protestieren: Deutsche, Juden, Gas – diese Verbindung
sollte es nicht mehr geben, und das habe ich ihm gesagt. Wir hatten damals eine
lange Diskussion und meine Schlussfolgerung daraus war, dass er eine sehr
schwierige Person ist, und dass er ein Problem mit all dem hat.</span><br />
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to come to Grass defense was the Swiss Adolf Muschg</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Wie der Schriftsteller Adolf
Muschg in der Zeitung «Der Sonntag» schreibt, ist der Antisemitismus-Vorwurf
gegen seinen deutschen Kollegen Günter Grass «so absurd unbillig und
unverhältnismässig, dass man über die fast geschlossene Front gegen den Autor
nur staunen kann». Muschg ist damit der erste international renommierte
Schriftsteller, der sich auf die Seite von Günter Grass schlägt.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Literaturkritiker Marcel Reich-Ranicki
reagiert derweil mit Abscheu auf das umstrittene Israel-Gedicht von
Literaturnobelpreisträger Günter Grass. «Es ist schon ein ekelhaftes Gedicht»,
sagte Reich-Ranicki der «Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung». Das Werk sei
«grauenvoll» und «unerträglich». Grass habe «ganz klar» die Absicht gehabt,
«den Judenstaat zu attackieren». Zu schreiben, dass Israel den Weltfrieden
bedrohe, sei «eine Gemeinheit» und zudem «grosser Unsinn», urteilte
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Reaktionen provoziert, obwohl es ungemein vorsichtig ein Problem aufgreift, das
viele andere längst ähnlich angesprochen haben. Wie kommt es, dass ein ganz
offensichtlich in der pazifistischen Tradition der Friedensbewegung und der
Ostermärsche stehendes, auf Völkerversöhnung und -verständigung zielendes
Gedicht derart feindselige Reaktionen hervorruft? Und zwar genau jene, die es
antizipiert und denen es vorbeugend entgegenarbeitet<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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demonstriert es daher gleich zu Beginn, mit den Worten: „von einem Maulhelden
unterjochte und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte iranische Volk“. Dass der Iran
von einem diktatorischen Regime beherrscht wird, daran lässt das Gedicht keinen
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Günter Grass und „Was gesagt werden muss“<br />
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Kleine Verteidigung eines heftig attackierten Friedensgedichtes<br />
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Von Thomas Anz<br />
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Das wenige Tage vor den Osterfeiertagen erschienene Gedicht „Was gesagt werden
muss“ von Günter Grass hat zu vielen empörten Reaktionen provoziert, obwohl es
ungemein vorsichtig ein Problem aufgreift, das viele andere längst ähnlich
angesprochen haben. Wie kommt es, dass ein ganz offensichtlich in der
pazifistischen Tradition der Friedensbewegung und der Ostermärsche stehendes,
auf Völkerversöhnung und -verständigung zielendes Gedicht derart feindselige
Reaktionen hervorruft? Und zwar genau jene, die es antizipiert und denen es
vorbeugend entgegenarbeitet?<br />
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Jede Kritik an der Rüstungs- und militärischen Abschreckungspolitik der
israelischen Regierung muss, ähnlich wie schon die Kritik an der
Aufrüstungsspirale in alten Zeiten des Kalten Krieges, mit reflexartigen
Reaktionen rechnen, die der fatalen Logik von Freund-Feind-Schemata folgen:<br />
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1. Die Gefährlichkeit des Iran werde ignoriert oder verharmlost.<br />
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Was das Gedicht von den Machthabern im Iran hält, demonstriert es daher gleich
zu Beginn, mit den Worten: „von einem Maulhelden unterjochte und zum
organisierten Jubel gelenkte iranische Volk“. Dass der Iran von einem
diktatorischen Regime beherrscht wird, daran lässt das Gedicht keinen Zweifel.
Mehr muss es dazu nicht sagen, weil darüber in der westlichen Öffentlichkeit
ständig gesprochen wird. Dennoch wird dem Gedicht unterstellt, dass es den Iran
gegenüber Israel in Schutz nehme, den Unterschied zwischen einer Diktatur und
der demokratischen Verfassung Israels ignoriere.<br />
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2. Die Kritik an der Politik der Regierung Israels sei durch antisemitische
Einstellungen motiviert.<br />
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Das Gedicht artikuliert ausdrücklich die Befürchtung, dass die Kritik an der
Politik Israels dem Antisemitismus-Verdacht ausgesetzt ist, und versichert dem
Land Israel die persönliche Verbundenheit. Dem Autor wird dennoch wiederholt
Antisemitismus unterstellt.<br />
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3. Deutsche hätten aufgrund der mörderischen Vergangenheit ihres Landes kein
Recht, einem anderen Land und vor allem nicht Israel eine friedensgefährdende
und dabei die Vernichtung eines ganzen Volkes riskierende Politik vorzuwerfen.
Damit würden sie die eigenen Verbrechen relativieren oder von ihnen ablenken…</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Betreff Re: Günter Grass: Was
gesagt werden muss<br />
Autor Fritz Reutemann<br />
Datum 24.04.2012 19:48<br />
Nachricht<br />
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Es ist zweifellos richtig, dass Israel ein gewachsenes Potential an Atomwaffen
zur Verfügung hat, das einer internationalen Kontrolle bisher nicht zugänglich
war. Im Iran vermutet man, dass an einer Atombombe gebaut wird. Beide Staaten
rasseln in regelmäßigen Abständen gern mal mit den Säbeln, was der gesamten
Gegend des Nahen Ostens eher abträglich ist. Dass Günter Grass diese Umstände
aufgreift und in einem lyrischen Prosagedicht mit seiner ihm eigenen
Wortgewandtheit verarbeitet, darf ihm nicht als Antisemitismus angekreidet
werden. Hinzu kommt noch, dass die deutsche Regierung unter Angela Merkel ein
weiteres U-Boot an Israel ausliefern wird, in eine politisch äußerst instabile
Region, wie wir alle wissen. Dieses U-Boot, „dessen Spezialität darin besteht,
alles vernichtende Sprengköpfe dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz einer
einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist“, wie Günter Grass in seinem Gedicht
schreibt. Es ist eine Tatsache, an der man nicht vorbei diskutieren sollte,
Vergessen sollte man auch nicht die 270 Leoparden, die mittels der deutschen
Regierung an Saudi Arabien, in ein Land, in dem die Scharia brutal praktiziert
wird, verdealt werden sollen. Für die deutschen Rüstungskonzerne - ein
Milliardengeschäft. Die Motoren dieser Panzer kommen übrigens von der MTU in
Friedrichshafen am Bodensee. Um auf die beiden Kontrahenten Israel und Iran
zurückzukommen ist eines klar, dass der Fascho-Islamist Achmadinedschad die
Israelis am liebsten ins Mittelmeer jagen würde und er dies auch so mehrmals
gesagt hat. Solche Äußerungen sind für mich klar antisemitisch und haben
absolut nichts in einer politischen Auseinandersetzung zu suchen. Andererseits
hat sich Netanjahu mit seinen Drohungen gegenüber dem Iran auch nicht gerade
mit Ruhm bekleckert und seine aggressive Siedlungspolitik im Westjordanland ist
völkerrechtlich mehr als fragwürdig. Dass Günter Grass zu diesen Tatsachen
nicht schweigen will, ist mutig und hat nichts mit einem, wie auch immer
gearteten „gebildeten Antisemitismus“ zu schaffen. Dass diese Region „vom Wahn
okkupiert“ ist, zeigt der menschenverachtende Völkermord am eigenen Volk des
Brutalstmachthabers Assad in Syrien. Es ist natürlich immer eine etwas kitzlige
Angelegenheit – sich, wie auch immer, gegen eine rechtskonservative Regierung
Israels zu stellen für einen deutschen Literaturnobelpreisträger.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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comes from a Germanist at Marburg Archiv, Jan Sueselbeck<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Wie Günter Grass sein Gedicht
„Was gesagt werden muss“ bereits 1990 in seiner Frankfurter Poetikvorlesung
ankündigte – mit einem Exkurs zu seiner Novelle „Im Krebsgang“ (2002)<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">In seinem Band „Prismen. Kulturkritik und
Gesellschaft“ (1955) formuliert Theodor W. Adorno die berühmten Zeilen: „Noch
das äußerste Bewußtsein vom Verhängnis droht zum Geschwätz zu entarten.
Kulturkritik findet sich der letzten Stufe der Dialektik von Kultur und
Barbarei gegenüber: nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch,
und das frißt auch die Erkenntnis an, die ausspricht, warum es unmöglich ward,
heute Gedichte zu schreiben.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Ob Günter Grass daran dachte, als er sein
apokalyptisch raunendes Protest-Gedicht „Was gesagt werden muss“ schrieb,
dessen Publikation Anfang April 2012 in der „Süddeutschen Zeitung“ (SZ)
nicht nur Leser in Israel empörte, sondern zumindest auch in der deutschen
Presse größtenteils einen Sturm der Entrüstung hervorrief? Adorno machte mit
seinem vielzitierten und oft falsch interpretierten Diktum darauf aufmerksam,
dass eine ‚angemessene‘ lyrische Ästhetik nach Auschwitz ebenso schwer zu
erlangen sei, wie die Diskussion über dieses fundamentale Problem jener
Dialektik zu entkommen vermöge, die der Zivilisationsbruch der Judenvernichtung
unweigerlich nach sich zog:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Alles</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Gedichtete,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>alles</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Geschriebene und auch noch die
Interpretationen dieser Texte nach Auschwitz, ja selbst noch die Reflexion der
Voraussetzungen ihrer Interpretation – alle diese Formen des Schreibens und
Denkens hatten sich laut Adorno fortan mit der Aporie auseinanderzusetzen, dass
man, kurz gesagt, mit Hilfe der<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>deutschen
Sprache</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>den Bau der
Gaskammern in Auschwitz und die gesamte Shoah organisiert hatte.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Der Lyriker Paul Celan meinte etwas Ähnliches in
seiner ebenso berühmten Rede zum Bremer Literaturpreis 1958, auch wenn er es
als Überlebender der Shoah fast sogar noch etwas ‚hoffnungsvoller‘ und weniger
apodiktisch formulierte als Adorno: „Erreichbar, nah und unverloren inmitten
der Verluste blieb dies Eine: die Sprache. Aber sie mußte nun hindurchgehen
durch ihre eigenen Antwortlosigkeiten, hindurchgehen durch furchtbares
Verstummen, hindurchgehen durch die tausend Finsternisse todbringender Rede.
Sie ging hindurch und gab keine Worte her für das, was geschah. Aber sie ging
durch dieses Geschehen.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Zur
Ästhetik der Täter-Opfer-Umkehr in „Was gesagt werden muss“</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Versuchen wir uns einmal nüchtern klar zu machen, was
dieser bereits einmal erreichte Reflexionsstand zur Möglichkeit von Lyrik heute
und ihrer ‚kulturkritischen‘ Debattierung nach Auschwitz für Günter Grass’
neuesten publizistischen Vorstoß, um nicht zu sagen: seinen „lyrischen
Erstschlag“, wie ihn eine<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Headline</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bei „Spiegel Online“ spöttisch nannte,
überhaupt bedeutet. Der Ex-SS-Rekrut Grass schreibt also im Jahr 2012 abermals
ein „Gedicht“ nach Auschwitz, allerdings ausgerechnet eines, in dem er
Deutschland implizit dafür kritisiert, dass sich das Land an einem ‚zweiten
Auschwitz‘ mitschuldig machen könnte, das wiederum ausgerechnet der Staat
Israel verbrechen ‚könnte‘. In der siebten Strophe von „Was gesagt werden muss“
heißt es:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Warum sage ich jetzt erst,<br />
gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:<br />
Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet<br />
den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?<br />
Weil gesagt werden muß,<br />
was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;<br />
auch weil wir – als Deutsche belastet genug –<br />
Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,<br />
das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld<br />
durch keine der üblichen Ausreden<br />
zu tilgen wäre.</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Grass’ lyrisches Ich spielt hier am Ende auf typische
deutsche Schuldabwehr-Sprüche wie das unvermeidliche „Wir haben nichts
gewusst!“ der ‚Nazi-Generation‘ an, wobei erstaunt, dass es hier zu konzedieren
scheint, dass diese Ausreden tatsächlich einmal etwas zu ‚tilgen‘ vermocht
hätten –<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>jetzt</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>aber, im Falle der Gegenwart Israels,
könne etwas passieren, dass offenbar selbst noch Auschwitz in den Schatten
stellen würde und vor dem solche Ausreden folglich endgültig versagen müssten.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Grass benutzt hier zudem genuine Begriffe aus der
Isotopieebene des Holocausts und des deutschen Schulddiskurses, um die Rollen
von Täter und Opfer in einer für den<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>sekundären
Antisemitismus</i>typischen Weise zu verkehren. Mehr noch, das Gedicht
wiederholt sogar in verklausulierter und verquerer Form Adolf Hitlers
Behauptung, es seien die Juden, die den „Weltfrieden“ gefährdeten, um die
Deutschen dazu aufzurufen, dieser verschwörerischen Kriegstreiberei, welche die
gesamte Menschheit gefährde, stellvertretend und tapfer entgegenzutreten. Nur
dass der sekundäre Antisemit eben nicht mehr pauschal das „Judentum“ oder gar
das „Weltjudentum“ bezichtigt, sondern ganz einfach den Staat Israel, den „man
ja wohl noch kritisieren dürfen wird“, wie es im alltäglichen Gespräch in
Deutschland seit Jahren so oft heißt, und zwar sowohl auf den Fluren der
Universitäten als auch in der nächsten Eckkneipe: „Das wird man doch wohl noch
sagen dürfen“, diese charakteristische Phrase der Entrüstung, hinter der sich
meist ein Antizionismus verbirgt, dessen Abgrenzung vom Antisemitismus
undeutlich geworden ist, spricht auch schon der Titel von Grass’ Gedicht wieder
aus, wenn auch in einem noch dezidierteren Protest, einer rhetorischen
Ermächtigung des lyrischen Ich, dass jetzt aber<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>wirklich</i>etwas sagen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>müsse</i>, gewissermaßen ohne
Rücksicht auf Verluste.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Auch bei Grass schwingt hier wieder die stereotype
Andeutung mit, irgendwer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>verbiete<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>tatsächlich und unter Androhung
des Antisemitsmusvorwurfs, also der sogenannten „Auschwitz-Keule“ (Martin
Walser), Israels Politik zu kritisieren, obwohl diese ganz selbstverständlich
pausenlos und in aller Welt, in Israel selbst genauso wie in Deutschland,
angeprangert wird. Was man ja auch an Grass’ Gedicht, das an überaus
prominenter Stelle veröffentlichte wurde, sowie an der schier unglaublichen
Aufmerksamkeit, die es auch durch das Fernsehen erlangte, einmal mehr und
besonders deutlich ablesen kann:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses Tatbestandes,<br />
dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,<br />
empfinde ich als belastende Lüge<br />
und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,<br />
sobald er mißachtet wird;<br />
das Verdikt „Antisemitismus“ ist geläufig.</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Damit ist zudem bereits explizit der Vorwurf
vorweggenommen, Grass spiele mit antisemitischen Affekten, und der Autor kann sich
sicher sein, zumindest von seinen Befürworten und Fans aus der schweigenden
bzw. sich zunehmend in den Leserbrief-Foren der Online-Portale der Presse
austobenden Masse für jede Kritik, die in diesem Sinne geäußert wird, nur noch
mehr geliebt zu werden. Der Dichter aber baut sogar noch eine weitere Volte in
sein Gedicht ein: Er kritisiert in erster Linie<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Deutschland</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>für die Lieferung von Atom-U-Booten an
Israel, und zwar eines Modells, „dessen Spezialität </span></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-highlight: lime;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">/ darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe </span></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-highlight: lime;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">/ dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz /</span></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-highlight: lime;"> </span></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"> einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist“.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Das lässt den unter anderem von Henryk M. Broder
erhobenen den Vorwurf, Grass sei Antisemit, zunächst einmal konstruiert und
abwegig erscheinen. Allerdings verschweigt Grass’ lyrisches Ich geflissentlich,
dass Deutschland womöglich auch Waffen an den Iran geliefert und dass deutsche
Firmen sogar maßgeblich an dessen Nuklear-<i>Know-How</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>mitgearbeitet haben, also an der
Möglichkeit der baldigen Entwicklung einer iranischen Atombombe, welche dieses
lyrische Ich als „unbewiesen“ bezeichnet. Der Hauptvorwurf in dem Gedicht
richtet sich also in Wahrheit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>doch</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>nicht gegen die deutsche
Rüstungsindustrie und gegen deutsche Waffengeschäfte allgemein, die tatsächlich
internationale Sanktionen gegen diktatorische islamistische Staaten massiv
unterlaufen. Grass’ Gedicht kritisiert überhaupt nicht, dass Deutschland
fortwährend und entgegen aller internationalen Abmachungen Staaten bewaffnet,
welche die gesamte Region und auch den demokratischen Westen insgesamt<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>explizit bedrohen</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>–<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span>sondern
agitiert allein und mit einem ‚selektiven Blick‘ gegen Israel, dass angeblich
als einziger Staat im Nahen Osten Gefahr laufe, mit solchen deutschen
Lieferungen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>wirklich</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ein „Verbrechen“ zu begehen, das das
lyrische Ich immerhin als „voraussehbar“ bezeichnet. Israel laufe also Gefahr,
ein tatsächlicher ‚Täter-Staat‘ zu werden – nicht aber der Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Wie auch immer der Autor Grass das genau ‚gemeint‘
haben mag: Da der Antisemitismus „wegen des deutschen Massenmords an den Juden
seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert in einen gewissen Rechtfertigungszwang
geraten ist, werden die Juden zur Gesellschaftlichen Selbstentlastung […] in
der Rolle des Täters gebraucht und nicht der des Opfers“, wie Samuel Salzborn die
emotionalen Bedürfnisse des sekundären Antisemitismus skizziert, die das
Gedicht von Grass mit seiner Argumentationsstruktur jedenfalls ganz wunderbar
bedient.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Die zweite Strophe des Textes, der von der „SZ“ in
hoher Auflage als „Aufschrei“ gegen deutsche Rüstungslieferungen an Israel auf
der Titelseite angekündigt wurde, lautet:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den Erstschlag,<br />
der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte<br />
und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte<br />
iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,<br />
weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau<br />
einer Atombombe vermutet wird.</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Es ist in den letzten Wochen vielfach analysiert
worden, was alles an dieser Strophe nicht stimmt: Israel hat niemals ein „Recht
auf den Erstschlag“ behauptet, also einen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>atomaren</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Angriff auf den Iran, der mit dem
dafür aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges reservierten Begriff „Erstschlag“ nur
gemeint sein kann. Der Diktator Mahmut Ajmadinedschad wiederum ist nun wahrlich
kein „Maulheld“, also jemand, der immer nur<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>behauptet</i>,
gefährlich zu sein, es aber in Wahrheit gar nicht ist. Nicht nur die
Oppositionellen im Iran wissen dies allzu gut – also jene Opfer, die vom
iranischen Regime ohne jede Gnade verfolgt, gefoltert und ermordet (und nicht
nur „unterjocht“ oder „zum organisierten Jubel gelenkt“) werden: Seit Jahr und
Tag droht Ajmadinedschad nicht zuletzt immer wieder öffentlich und bei
internationalen Auftritten explizit mit der<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Auslöschung</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Israels und steckt mit seinen
Geheimdiensten und seinen Waffenlieferungen an Terrororganisationen wie die
Hizbollah und die Hamas<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>de
facto</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>auch bereits hinter den<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>real geschehenen</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Raketenangriffen auf das Land sowie
hinter den letzten Kriegen, die gegen den geografisch gesehen vergleichsweise
winzigen und daher extrem gefährdeten Staat vom Zaun gebrochen wurden. Nicht
aber droht der einzige demokratische Staat des Nahen Ostens, nämlich Israel,
mit einem solchen gezielten mörderischen Angriff auf die Zivilbevölkerung im
Iran, der das „iranische Volk auslöschen könnte“, wie es in Zeile vier der
zitierten Strophe des Gedichts explizit heißt.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">„Schreiben
nach Auschwitz“: Grass als gelehriger Schüler Theodor W. Adornos?</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Man könnte diese Analyse des Gedichtes an dieser
Stelle noch viel weiter treiben – doch auch so schon sollte das, was hier
zitiert wurde, ausreichen, um zu belegen, dass Grass nicht nur die prekäre und
bedrohliche politische Lage im Nahen Osten ebenso wenig begriffen hat wie
irgendein deutscher Stammtisch-Stratege oder die notorischen Antizionisten der
deutschen Friedensbewegung. Nein, besonders deutlich dürfte auch geworden sein,
dass der Literaturnobelpreisträger Grass die<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>ästhetischen</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Herausforderungen eines Schreibens
nach Auschwitz, noch dazu in deutscher Sprache, wie sie der Shoah-Überlebende
Paul Celan und der Emigrant Adorno reflektierten, nicht einmal im Ansatz begriffen
hat.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Und dennoch hielt dieser selbe Günter Grass 1990 seine
Frankfurter Poetikvorlesung unter dem interessanten Titel: „Schreiben nach
Auschwitz“. Und niemand scheint bisher Notiz davon genommen zu haben, dass
Grass damals sein kürzlich erschienenes Gedicht gewissermaßen bereits
ankündigte. Lauten doch die letzten Sätze dieser berühmten Rede, in denen eine
zentrale Formulierung noch einmal besonders hervorgehoben werden sollte: „Auch
das Nachdenken über Deutschland ist Teil meiner literarischen Arbeit. Seit
Mitte der sechziger Jahre bis in die gegenwärtig anhaltende Unruhe hinein gab
es Anlässe für Reden und Aufsätze. Oft waren diese notwendig deutlichen
Hinweise meinen Zeitgenossen zuviel der Einmischung, der, wie sie meinten,
außerliterarischen Dreinrede. Das sind nicht meine Besorgnisse. Eher bleibt
Ungenügen nach fünfunddreißig Jahren Bilanz.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Etwas,
das noch nicht zu Wort kam, muß gesagt werden.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>Eine alte Geschichte will ganz
anders erzählt werden. Vielleicht gelingen noch die zwei Zeilen. So wird meine
Rede zwar ihren Punkt finden müssen, doch dem Schreiben nach Auschwitz kann
kein Ende versprochen werden, es sei denn, das Menschengeschlecht gäbe sich
auf.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Fast klingt es, als habe Grass bereits damals kurz
davor gestanden, am Ende seiner Vorlesung mit seiner SS-Mitgliedschaft
herauszurücken, die in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>dieser</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Rede mit<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>diesem</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Thema tatsächlich hätte erwähnt werden<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>müssen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>– und doch endet auch diese
Vorlesung mit der überraschenden Volte, das „Schreiben nach Auschwitz“ als
bloßen Kampf gegen den<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Atomtod</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>zu begreifen, von dem sich damals
insbesondere die deutsche Friedensbewegung immer noch als anzunehmendes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>erstes Opfer</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>bedroht sah: Grass scheint auch schon
1990 zu meinen, dass der „Weltfrieden“, mehr noch, das gesamte
„Menschengeschlecht“, wie es im letzten zitierten Satz der Rede heißt, verloren
sei, wenn nicht<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>er</i>, Grass,
sich gegen alle Proteste seiner Zeitgenossen, die er tapfer missachtet, weiter<i>einmische</i>.
Man ahnt: Auch hier, in seiner Rede mit dem Titel „Schreiben nach Auschwitz“,
hatte Grass in Wahrheit nichts weniger im Sinn als den Gedanken an die Opfer
der Shoah. Es ging ihm allein um Deutschland.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Für diese These liefert die Frankfurter
Poetikvorlesung von 1990 im Übrigen auch noch eine weitere, eindeutigere
Belegstelle: „Wo noch kann Literatur ihren Auslauf finden, wenn die Zukunft
schon vordatiert und von statistischen Schreckensbilanzen besetzt ist? Was ist
noch zu erzählen, wenn die Fähigkeit des Menschengeschlechts, sich selbst und
alles andere Leben auf vielfältige Weise zu vernichten, täglich unter Beweis
gestellt werden könnte oder in Planspielen geübt wird? Sonst nichts, doch die
atomare, stündlich mögliche Selbstvernichtung verhält sich zu Auschwitz und
erweitert die Endlösung auf globales Maß.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Man sieht: Die Bedrohungen, gegen die Günter Grass
hier ‚einsam‘ ankämpft, degradieren die Opfer des Holocausts gleichsam zu
‚Fußnoten‘ einer Vernichtung, die in Zukunft alles Geschehene und von deutscher
Seite aus Verbrochene ohnehin weit in den Schatten stellen werde: Grass spricht
bedeutungsschwanger von jener Apokalypse, die man in der deutschen
Friedensbewegung gerne mit dem bezeichnenden Signet des „atomaren Holocaust“
versah. Wobei eine solche Bedrohung im Jahr 1990, also zur Zeit der „Wende“ und
des gerade zusammenbrechenden Ostblocks, bereits weit abstrakter geworden war
als sie es heute in Israel tatsächlich ist, wo die Ankündigungen von
Ajmadinedschad für Grass jedoch plötzlich nur ein durchschaubares
Kasperletheater eines überschätzten Sprücheklopfers von Diktator sein sollen.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Nein, schon das Pathos der ersten Strophe von „Was
gesagt werden muss“ meint nicht jene Israelis, die Ajmadinedschads
fortwährende Drohungen in Angst und Schrecken versetzen, sondern es adressiert
ganz andere „Fußnoten“, also Opfer – nämlich abermals die<i>Deutschen</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>und den ahnungslosen ‚Rest der Welt‘.
Ihnen allen verklickert Grass nun einmal und als angeblich<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>Erster<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>kurz und deutlich, was ihnen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>von Israel aus</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>blühe:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,<br />
was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen<br />
geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende<br />
wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Von diesen ominösen „Planspielen“ war, wie zitiert,
auch 1990 schon einmal die Rede: Wer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>plant</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>hier eigentlich bei Grass genau einen
solchen veritablen ‚Weltuntergang‘? Etwa die Juden? Trotz dieser verstörenden
Aussagen, die bei Grass seit Jahrzehnten immer wieder auftauchten, spielte sich
der Autor bereits 1990 als einer auf, der trotz anfänglicher Schwierigkeiten
seinen Adorno verstanden habe, wenn er auch am Anfang noch gedacht habe, dessen
eingangs zitiertes Diktum sei nicht anders als ein<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Verbot</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>des Verfassens von Gedichten nach
Auschwitz zu verstehen gewesen: „Auch meine Reaktionen, die auf Unkenntnis
fußten, das heißt, auf bloßem Hörensagen, bestanden auf Abwehr. Da ich mich im
Vollbesitz meiner Talente wähnte und mich entsprechend als Alleinbesitzer
dieser Talente sah, wollte ich sie ausleben, unter Beweis stellen. Geradezu
widernatürlich kam mir Adornos Gebot als Verbot vor; als hätte sich jemand
gottväterlich angemaßt, den Vögeln das Singen zu verbieten.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Doch dann, so beichtet Grass ergriffen, sei der
Groschen gefallen: „Die Irritation muß größer oder zeitverschoben nachhaltiger
gewesen sein als ich mir damals eingestehen konnte.“ Aber seltsam, in seinen
weiteren Formulierungen klingt das, was Grass hier nunmehr als eine
„Gesetzestafel“ wie eine solche der<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Zehn
Gebote</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>zu berherzigen
vorgibt, als seine „Vorschrift“ zum Verfassen von Gedichten, nach einer Art<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gefängnis</i>, in das er sich nun
freiwillig selbst eingewiesen hat und das sein so ‚talentiertes‘, lebensfrohes
deutsches Schreiben im Zaum hält, wie das Singen eines Vogels, das im Käfig
verstummt: Diese „Vorschrift verlangte Verzicht auf reine Farbe; sie schrieb
das Grau und dessen unendliche Abstufungen vor.“ Und weiter: „Etwas war
angestoßen und – wenn auch gegen Widerstände – in Zucht genommen worden; jene
als grenzenlos empfundene Freiheit, die keine erkämpfte, die eine geschenkte
war, stand unter Aufsicht.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Wenn
junge Nazis Israel gut finden: Grass’ Novelle „Im Krebsgang“</span></i></b><b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Natürlich blieb Grass nie lange unter dieser
sogenannten „Aufsicht“, die auch so naiv und platt von Adorno natürlich gar
nicht gemeint war: Grass schrieb eifrig weiter wie immer, und zwar Roman auf
Roman, Gedicht auf Gedicht. Wer beispielsweise seine Novelle „Im Krebsgang“ (2002)
gelesen hat, weiß, dass auch in diesem großen Erfolg sein neuestes Gedicht in
zentralen Botschaften bereits vorweggenommen wurde. „Im Krebsgang“ galt
seinerzeit als ‚Tabubruch‘ und wurde insbesondere von Grass als solcher
inszeniert, weil in diesem Text endlich einmal von deutschen Opfern des Zweiten
Weltkrieges die Rede sei – als wenn dieses Thema von ‚Flucht und Verteibung‘
nicht schon seit den 1950er-Jahren in der deutschen Nachrkriegsliteratur zur
Genüge aufgegriffen worden wäre.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">In der Novelle geht es um die angeblich versagte
Erinnerung an die etwa 9.000 Deutschen, die mit dem früheren „Kraft durch
Freude“-Kreuzfahrtschiff „Wilhelm Gustloff“ untergingen und ertranken, das am
30. Januar 1945 durch zwei Torpedotreffer eines sowjetischen U-Bootes in der
Ostsee versenkt wurde. Bezeichnend ist, dass sich Grass’ Erzähler in der
Novelle, die von drei deutschen Generationen erzählt, ähnlich ‚pazifistisch‘
positioniert, wie es sein Autor auch heute gegenüber Israel immer noch für
richtig hält: Der Namensgeber des untergegangenen Schiffes, Wilhelm Gustloff,
war ein NSDAP-Landesgruppenleiter im schweizer Exil, den ein jüdischer Emigrant
namens David Frankfurter 1936 in Davos erschoss. Gustloff wurde daraufhin von
den Nazis als „Blutzeuge“ zum Märtyrer stilisiert. Der KdF-Dampfer, der
eigentlich den namen Adolf Hitlers bekommen sollte, wurde auf Wunsch des
„Führers“ nach diesem „Blutzeugen“ benannt. Grass erzählt diese Geschichte
allerdings stellenweise so nach, als sei der jüdische Attentäter aus der Sicht
seines Protagonisten mindestens genauso Schuld an allem Folgenden gewesen wie
die Nazis, weil sein Mord das gesamte Verhängnis überhaupt erst in Gang gesetzt
habe: „Von wegen, er habe sich geopfert, um seinem Volk ein Beispiel für den
heldenhaften Widerstand zu liefern. Ging den Juden nach dem Mord kein Stück
besser. Im Gegenteil. Terror war Gesetz. Und als zweieinhalb Jahre später der
Jude Herschel Grünspan in Paris den Diplomaten Ernst vom Rath erschoß, gab es
als Antwort die Reichskristallnacht. Und was hat den Nazis, frage ich mich, ein
Blutzeuge mehr gebracht? Na schön, ein Schiff wurde auf seinen Namen getauft.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Man reibt sich die Augen: Nur weil ein jüdischer
Emigrant nicht einsah, still mit anzusehen, wie seine Angehörigen in
Deutschland massenhaft misshandelt, diskriminiert und ermordet wurden, um mit
einem stellvertretenden Attentat auf einen umtriebigen Auslands-Propagandisten
der NSDAP Widerstand zu leisten und ein Zeichen für die Wehrhaftigkeit
jüdischer Opfer zu setzen, soll plötzlich der „Terror“ zum „Gesetz“ geworden
sein? Nur weil sich in Paris bald darauf noch einmal eine ähnliche Geschichte
abspielte, soll die Reichspogromnacht provoziert worden sein? War das nicht
immer genau die Propaganda-Behauptung der Nazis gewesen? Auch der letzte zitierte
Satz des Protagonisten ist im Erzählkontext interessant. Scheint er doch
zumindest nahezulegen, dass der Attentäter Frankfurter im Grunde auch noch
daran Schuld sein könnte, dass es überhaupt ein Schiff namens Wilhelm Gustloff
gab, auf dem dann 9.000 ‚unschuldige‘ deutsche Opfer mitsamt 4.000 Kleinkindern
qualvoll ertranken. Tatsächlich wiederholt der Erzähler auch später noch einmal
deutlicher, es sei David Frankfurter gewesen, „der durch gezielte Schüsse einem
Schiff [….] unfreiwillig zum Namen verholfen hatte“.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Man muss hier genauer hinsehen, wie Grass
erzähltechnisch arbeitet, um zu begreifen, wie dieser Autor gleichsam ein altes
Muster des Literarischen Antisemitismus seit Gustav Freytags „Soll und Haben“
(1855) und Wilhelm Raabes „Hungerpastor“<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>recyclet</i>,
und zwar auf verschiedenen Ebenen seiner Novelle, die gleichzeitig als
Erzählsphären verschiedener Generationen fungieren: Grass operiert mit binär
arrangierten Figurenpaaren, deren Geschichte und Lebenslauf parallel erzählt
wird und die sich zumindest nominell als jüdischer und als deutscher Charakter
gegenüber stehen. Im Literarischen Antisemitismus des 19. Jahrhunderts
verkörperte die jüdische Figur stets das Böse, während der deutsche Charakter
für das Gute stand. Grass bricht dieses einseitige Schema eines manichäischen
Weltbilds allerdings auf, um es mehrfach zu relativieren bzw. durch
Perspektivwechsel hin- und herzuwenden. Diese narrativen Taschenspielertricks,
welche die Novelle auf den ersten Blick ziemlich vertrackt erscheinen lassen,
von Grass allerdings überaus unbeholfen vorgeführt werden und gerade darin
perfekt auf sein heimisches Deutschlehrerpublikum zugeschnitten sind, dürften
dazu geführt haben, dass man Grass’ Text 2002 hierzulande so gefeiert hat und
seine revisionistischen Elemente kaum wahrnahm.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Doch allein schon die klischeehaft formulierte
Parallelisierung, die der Erzähler im Blick auf David Frankfurter und sein
‚Opfer‘ Wilhelm Gustloff vornimmt, offenbart die grundlegende Problematik des
Textes: „Schon bald ließ alles, was danach, den Prozeß eingeschlossen, geschah,
den Täter und das Opfer hinter sich und gewann Bedeutung. Dem Helden vom
biblischen Zuschnitt, der mit schlicht begründeter Tat sein gepeinigtes Volk
zum Widerstand aufrufen wollte, stand der Blutzeuge der nationalsozialistischen
Bewegung gegenüber. Beide sollten überlebensgroß ins Buch der Geschichte
eingehen.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Der einzelne, an sich vollkommen machtlose jüdische
Attentäter erscheint hier also als gleichwertige Figur neben dem NS-Ideologen,
noch dazu als „Held von biblischem Zuschnitt“ – also als jüdischer,
alttestamentarischer ‚Rächer‘ – und vermag als solcher schließlich ebenso
„überlebensgroß“ neben dem Repräsentanten jenes mächtigen Staats zu stehen, der
immerhin zum Zeitpunkt des Attentats ungehindert dabei war, den von Hitler
bereits explizit angekündigten Holocaust vorzubereiten, während Frankfurter als
todkranker Emigrant in der Schweiz auf sich allein gestellt war. Gleichzeitig
aber soll Frankfurters Tat „schlicht begründet“ gewesen sein, wie der Erzähler
meint: War also das massenmörderische System, für das Wilhelm Gustloff eintrat,
etwa auch nur eine Ausgeburt bloßen ‚Maulheldentums‘? Sollten es etwa immer
schon voreilige ‚jüdische Racheakte‘ gewesen sein, die in der Geschichte großes
Unheil anrichten, weil irgendwelche „Spinner“ (so der Erzähler über David
Frankfurter) nicht so weise ,Pazifisten‘ waren wie Günter Grass?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Grass’ gegenwärtige Befürchtung, Israel könne gleich
den „Weltfrieden“ gefährden, wenn es sich mit gleichsam ‚schlicht begründeter‘
Waffengewalt gegen Ajmadinedschads iranisches Regime verteidigen sollte, taucht
damit auch schon in „Im Krebsgang“ als Motiv einer verklausulierten
Täter-Opfer-Umkehr auf. Es mögen nur kurze Bemerkungen sein, aber sie
insinuieren immer wieder, David Frankfurters Attentat auf Gustloff habe alles
weitere<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ausgelöst</i>, sei im
Grunde Schuld am Erstarken des Nationalsozialismus nicht nur in der
Geburtsstadt des „Blutzeugen“, Schwerin: „Was alles durch gezielte Schüsse
[David Frankfurters, J.S.] auf die Beine gebracht wurde: marschierende
SA-Kolonnen, Ehrenspaliere, Kranz- und Fahnenträger, Uniformierte mit Fackeln.
Bei dumpfem Trommelwirbel zog Wehrmacht im Trauerschritt vorbei, stand
Schwerins in Trauer erstarrtes oder aus bloßer Schaulust drängendes Volk.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Dabei bleibt die Novelle jedoch nicht stehen: Auch
„Konny“, der junge Sohn des Erzählers, der erst aufgrund des angeblichen
‚Tabus‘, sich an die Opfer der Wilhelm Gustloff zu erinnern, zum Nazi wird,
wird einem ‚jüdischen‘ Charakter gegenüber gestellt. Auffällig ist dabei, dass
auch dieser ‚Jude‘ „David“ heißt und mit ‚antideutsch‘ anmutenden Provokationen
in einem Nazi-„Chatroom“ (Grass’ nebulöse und unfreiwillig komische
Vorstellungen von der Kommunikation im Internet sind ein Thema für sich)
antisemitische Eskalationen erst wirklich provoziert. Sogar seine eigene
Ermordung durch Konny soll er am Ende selbst ‚verschuldet‘ haben, was
seltsamerweise nicht nur der Richter, sondern sogar die Eltern Davids in der
Novelle ganz selbstverständlich glauben und fortwährend beteuern.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Besonders bemerkenswert ist im spezifischen Kontext
des Gedichtes „Was gesagt werden muss“ aber noch ein ganz anderer Aspekt dieser
Geschichte: Konny und David sind sich in ihren tumultuösen
Nazi-„Chatroom“-Gefechten in einer Sache immer auffällig einig – ihrer
rückhaltlosen Bewunderung der ‚schlagkräftigen‘ israelischen Armee. Abermals
taucht damit Israel bei Grass als neuer „Nazi“-Staat auf – als ein Land, das
als<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>role model</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>für niemand anderen als den deutschen
Faschisten-Nachwuchs dient. So heißt es über Konny: „Überhaupt habe er nichts
gegen Israel. Dessen schlagkräftige Armee bewundere er sogar. Und völlig
einverstanden sei er mit der Entschlossenheit der Israelis, Härte zu zeigen. Es
bleibe ihnen ja keine andere Wahl. Palästinensern und ähnlichen Moslems
gegenüber dürfe man keinen Fingerbreit nachgeben.“<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Grass hat in seinem aktuellen Gedicht also keinesfalls
Überraschendes geschrieben, sondern ganz einfach nur das verkündet, was er
‚schon immer‘ vertreten hat. Es handelt sich, kurz gesagt, um folgende stereotype
Botschaft: Juden, die sich gegen ihre drohende Vernichtung wehren, sind in
Wahrheit die Auslöser allen folgenden Unheils, das sie danach selbst umso
härter treffen muss. Gleichzeitig provozieren sie damit allerdings auch noch
den ‚Untergang‘ vieler anderer ‚unschuldiger Menschen‘, um nicht zu sagen das
Ende des „Weltfriedens“ und des gesamten „Menschengeschlechts“: Zu Opfern in
diesem „Planspiel“ werden allerdings zu allererst Deutsche, als ‚Fußnoten der
Geschichte‘, an die sich angeblich hinterher niemand erinnern will (was in
Wahrheit in Deutschland nach 1945 allein für die jüdischen Opfer der Shoah
galt).<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Dieser fixen Idee entspricht übrigens auch der letzte<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Clou</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in der Novelle „Im Krebsgang“: Der
„Jude“ David aus dem „Chatroom“ ist, wie sich überraschend herausstellt,
nämlich gar kein Jude, sondern auch<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Deutscher</i>.
In einem<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Courtroom-Drama</i>,
das sich als generationelle Fortschreibung des Prozesses in Bernhard Schlinks
Roman „Der Vorleser“ (1995) erweist, weil in ihm nicht die Täter-Generation, sondern
die Enkel-Generation vor Gericht steht und genausowenig nachvollziehbar
verurteilt werden kann wie bei Schlink, kommt bei Grass am Ende alles heraus.
Konny hat David erschossen, das heißt: Kain hat in Wahrheit seinen<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>deutschen</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Bruder Abel ermordet – und dieses
sinnlose Sterben geschieht wie schon bei Schlink angeblich auschließlich
deshalb, weil man den armen, hilflosen und unschuldigen Deutschen perfiderweise
vorschreibt, wie sie mit ihrer eigenen Geschichte umzugehen haben. Deutsche
ermorden sich sowohl bei Schlink als auch bei Grass tragischerweise selbst,
weil man ihnen zuvor strengstens verboten hat, sich an die eigenen Leiden und
Opfer im Krieg zu erinnern und weil in der Folge solcher ‚krank machender‘
„Vorschriften“ (siehe Adorno) am Ende selbst die<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Jugend</i>mit der „Gnade der späten
Geburt“ (Helmut Kohl), also die Enkelgeneration der NS-Täter, die in Wahrheit
auch ihr Päckchen zu tragen hatten, noch krampfhaft für Israel Partei ergreift:
Daraus können bei Grass tatsächlich nur Mord und Totschlag resultieren.</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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but they must listen to him<br />
After we denounce the exaggeration, after we shake off the unjustified part of
the charge, we must listen to the condemnation of these great people.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">By Gideon Levy</span><br />
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">The harsh, and in some parts
infuriating, poem by Gunter Grass of course immediately sparked a wave of
vilifications against it and mainly against its author. Grass indeed went a few
steps too far (and too mendaciously ) – Israel will not destroy the Iranian
people – and for that he will be punished, in his own country and in Israel.
But in precisely the same way the poem’s nine stanzas lost a sense of
proportion in terms of their judgment of Israel, so too the angry responses to
it suffer from exaggeration. Tom Segev wrote in Haaretz: “Unless Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently confided
in him, his opinion is vacuous.” (“More pathetic than anti-Semitic,” April 5 ).
Prime Ministe</span><br />
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/censorship-in-the-israeli-press-now-you-see-it-now-you-dont/</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Eine Provokation mit bedrückendem Ergebnis is I would say the the by far
classiest discussion of the controversy, and by someone, a notable Germanborn
Jewish historian who is at Columbia University, who knew Grass quite well in
the first decades of his career once he became famous with THE TIN DRUM.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">13.04.2012 · Die Notwendigkeit
der Kritik rechtfertigt nicht diese Form der Anklage: Ein Gespräch mit dem
Historiker Fritz Stern über Günter Grass, die Debatte über dessen Gedicht und
konstruktive Kritik an Israel.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">A friend and German-Jewish writer some
of whose essays I have translated.</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">"2012/4/9 Esther
Dischereit<br />
</span><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Lieber Michael, ich
habe noch nie selbst etwas irgendwohin gepostet. Wenn Du möchtest, kannst Du
mit meiner Stellungnahme gerne so verfahren. Herzlich esther<br />
<br />
> 2012/4/9 Esther Dischereit<br />
<br />
Ich wüßte nicht, dass es irgendwo zu vertreten wäre,<br />
> Präventivschläge auszuführen, die leider Teil der israelischen
Militärgeschichte sind.<br />
> > > Es wäre auch schön, wenn Israel dem Atomwaffensperrvertrag
beitreten<br />
und Mr. Vanunu freilassen würde.<br />
> > ><br />
Außerdem ist es eine Tatsache, dass die israelischen Regierungen seit<br />
> > > Jahrzehnten versuchen, die Palästinenser in andere Länder<br />
abzuschieben oder ihrer Lebensgrundlagen zu berauben. Der Fortgang des
Siedlungsbaus ist vollständig illegal und widerspricht dem Osloer Abkommen.<br />
> > ><br />
Die Lieferung von Waffen in Kriegs- oder Krisengebiete darf und soll<br />
> > > hinterfragt werden. Ich bin nicht dafür.<br />
> > ><br />
Herr Grass scheint mir alles mit allem zu vermischen. Auch scheint es<br />
fraglich zu sein, wer hier welchen Kriegstreibern den Rang abläuft.<br />
Die Dämonisierung der israelischen Regierung als d i e Gefährderin<br />
des Weltfriedens ist eine Merkwürdigkeit. Sozusagen als sei das<br />
Frieden, jetzt . Israel wird bei Herrn Grass als Verursacherin der<br />
Bedrohung bezeichnet. Das scheint mir eine Simplifizierung zu sein.<br />
> > ><br />
Da es sich bei dem iranischen Regime nun nicht um eine durch Friedensliebe
ausgezeichnete Herrschaftsclique handelt, die Auslöschungsdrohungen ausstößt,
kann man wohl nicht allen Ernstes von Frieden sprechen. Seit Jahren herrscht in
der Region der Status Quo.<br />
> > ><br />
Oder Krieg. Verzicht auf Gewalt und Etablierung einer internationalen<br />
Kontrolle - daran ist nichts falsch, und wäre für Jerusalem als<br />
exterritoriales Gebilde sicher sinnvoll, ebenso wie die Kontrolle<br />
aller Atomanlagen.<br />
> > ><br />
Vor einem Krieg gegen den Iran zu warnen, ist vernünftig. Wir haben<br />
noch immer die Lügen präsent, mit denen Großbritannien dazu<br />
gebracht wurde, sich am Irak-Krieg zu beteiligen</span><span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">.<br />
> ><br />
</span><i><span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Herzlich esther dischereit<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background: lime; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Hello
Michael,<br />
you are absolutely right in defending Günther Grass. I have been following
political developments in the Middle East for a long time and can only confirm
that, in my own words, “the Israelis have learned too much from their one-time
oppressors”. Their entire policy in Gaza and the West Bank can be linked in
word and deed to the racial cleansing policies of Nazi Germany. Their brutal
disregard of all the resolutions of the United Nations, some of which they have
even signed, and international law can be proven in detail over and over again.
But any mention of this by any one is immediately branded as
"anti-Semitism”.<br />
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The funny thing is (I think) that the Palestinians themselves are also Semites.
So the Israelis are being anti-Semitic when they bash Palestinians?<br />
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It appears that the only ones who have learned from that sad history are most
of the Germans themselves.<br />
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Regards,<br />
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">and a finely differentiated piece in</span></b><b><span style="color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt;"> <span style="background: fuchsia; mso-highlight: fuchsia;">http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/guenter-grass-mahnt-wieder_1.16261206.html</span><br />
</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: yellow;">and once you started to look at the wealth of blogs you
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: yellow; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: yellow;">To keep track of all this you not only
have to employ your Google search function but enlist the Google-overnight-spider
express, and in this instance I employed both my a German and English language
spider: one brings you the results in the morning, the other in the afternoon.
What I thought would take maybe a few days of my life, interrupted a chapter in
a book for one entire month. However, doing this was a lot easier than when I
did this sort of thing the first time, about 20 years ago during the first of
the three comings of the three Handke controversies that accompanied,
paralleled the disintegration of the 2<sup>nd</sup> Yugoslav Federation and
subsequent trials and deaths. At that time I used to tie 12 different search
engines together, that rare awkward team of twelve horses that only the most
experienced of drivers can control, a <i>Zwoelfgespann</i>,
to gather the news. The Google monopoly and expertise make it all the much
easier now, especially with a single event as my focus instead of the shifing
landscape of various wars and Handke popping off here there and everwhere</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #202020; font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">What surprised me until four weeks into the
controverse was that we don't have Handke's reaction. I imagined his is having
conniptions at the amount of attention Grass was getting since the last time
that Grass did, in 2007, for a matter where Grass’s SS past became news,
Handke, in Spain, expressed outrage: everone knew by 1944 at age 17 what the SS
did. And all the things Herr Handke didn’t know at age 30 was my reaction to
that. But today I come on a link where Handke claims, in the company of his
friend, the director Luc Bondy, who had read the poem, to claim that he hadn’t
– and other fine lies is all I can say to that on the part of someone who
scours the magazines for pictures and mention of his name. But why get involved in a controversy which
has only losers, especially if your stock has been rising the past few years
and you can’t really complain about lack of publicity, for very fine work
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">5 May 2012</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">It is now exactly
one month since the German author Günter Grass published his poem “What Must be
Said”—time enough to draw a preliminary balance sheet.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">There have been
many acrimonious conflicts in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,
but there is nothing to compare with the flood of abuse, slanders and insults
unleashed in the media, including the so-called “serious” publications, against
the 84-year-old Nobel laureate over the past several weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">The accusation of
anti-Semitism has been raised dozens of times and in every variation. And this
against the author of The Tin Drum, who was holding up a mirror to German
society at a time when it was covering its past with a thick veil and when its
government, administration, judiciary, editorial offices, universities and
business executive suites were staffed by thousands of former Nazis!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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beisprang, als dieser in einem Gedicht Israel unterstellte, den Iran
„auslöschen“ zu wollen – und damit Worte des iranischen Machthabers auf Israel
projizierte –, wird bei der Wiederwahl zum Akademiepräsidenten wohl kaum eine
Rolle spielen. Staeck hatte erklärt, er glaube nicht, dass der
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Germany in the Shadow of Günter ...</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Having faded from
the media spotlight, the Günter Grass poem aroused quite a bit of criticism -
and questions - in the weeks following its release. Now ...</span><br />
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Gunter Grass said a frightened Israel is dangerous not only to itself but to
the entire world, Israelis refused to address this harsh statement. The Israeli
tribal defense in the face of Grass' remarks focused on the speaker's
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Günter Grass ging Karin Binder [A Bundestagabgeordnete from Baden-Baden] ein:
"Grass hat recht", sagte sie. Er drücke letztlich die Sorge um die
Gefahr eines atomaren Flächenbrandes im Nahen Osten aus. Bedauerlicherweise
beteilige sich auch Deutschland – als drittgrößter Rüstungsexporteur der Welt –
daran. Die Linke müsse die Diskussion um eine Rüstungskonversion anstoßen.
Damit dadurch nicht langfristig Arbeitsplätze entfallen, müsse ein
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">03.05.2012 15:49 Uhr</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Unter strengen
Sicherheitsvorkehrungen wurde am Donnerstag um 12 Uhr bei HDW das erste von
drei neuen U-Booten für die Marine Israels getauft. Das größte bislang in
Deutschland gebaute U-Boot erhielt den Traditionsnamen „Tanin“. Der Auftrag ist
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Günter Grass’s poem
“What Must Be Said” was an extraordinary attack on Israel not because of what
he said but because of how he said it. Others before him, including many
Israelis, have made the substantive criticisms of Israeli policy he made. But
Grass not only subtly suggested that Israel was planning a nuclear strike
against Iran rather than the other way around, but also implicitly equated
Israel with Nazi Germany. In particular, he used the German verb “auslöschen” –
which literally means to “extinguish” or “annihilate” but specifically suggests
genocide in general and the Holocaust in particular – to describe what Israel
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SZ: Zurück zum Thema Israelkritik: Darf ein Deutscher überhaupt Kritik an
Israel äußern?<br />
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Brumlik: Das glaube ich sehr wohl. Vorbildlich war beispielsweise, wie der
deutsche Verteidigungsminister Thomas de Maizière seinen Amtskollegen Ehud
Barak eindringlich auf die Gefahren eines Präventivkriegs hingewiesen und
gewarnt hat. Ich vermisse, dass sich deutsche Politiker - aber auch andere
europäische Regierungen - gegen die unverantwortliche Siedlungspolitik im
Westjordanland wenden.<br />
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SZ: Manche fürchten wohl, sich in die Nesseln zu setzen. Wie würde eine
Gebrauchsanweisung für Kritik an der israelischen Regierung lauten können?<br />
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Brumlik: Man muss Israel dazu drängen, dass es endlich zu einer
Zwei-Staaten-Lösung kommt. Doch die Realität im Westjordanland spricht mit der
Zeit immer mehr dagegen. Die Siedlungspolitik wird immer schwieriger rückgängig
zu machen sein und die Verwirklichung eines palästinensischen Staates immer
unwahrscheinlicher.<br />
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Micha Brumlik zu Günter Grass<br />
Ist das Einreiseverbot für Grass gerechtfertigt?<br />
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10.04.2012, 11:59<br />
SZ: Ist die israelische Reaktion - des Einreiseverbots für Grass -
gerechtfertigt?<br />
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Brumlik: Ich halte sie für unklug und für eine schlichte Retourkutsche. Es gibt
dieses Gesetz, dass ehemaligen Mitgliedern der NSDAP und seinen Gliederungen
die Einreise verboten werden kann. Aber auch der israelische Innenminister weiß
natürlich, dassGünter Grass nicht die geringste Absicht hat, nach Israel zu
reisen. Das war die Gelegenheit jetzt auch noch einmal offiziell festzustellen,
dass Grass ein Nationalsozialist gewesen ist - und nach Ansicht der
israelischen Regierung das noch heute ist.<br />
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SZ: Grass ist im Alter von 17 Jahren in die Waffen-SS eingezogen worden.<br />
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Brumlik: Das kann durchaus passieren, das hätte ich auf keinen Fall so
inkriminiert, wie das heute viele tun. Was allerdings auffällt ist, dass sich
Grass erst Jahrzehnte später, nach dem Erhalt des Nobelpreises, dazu
durchringen konnte, diesen Teil seiner Lebensgeschichte zu offenbaren. Das
provoziert Fragen. Offenbar müssen seine eigenen Schamgefühle außerordentlich
groß gewesen sein, doch er ist strategisch damit so umgegangen, dass er es
lange verleugnet hat. Und höchstwahrscheinlich hätte er diesen Preis auch nicht
bekommen, wenn er das vorher bekanntgegeben hätte.<br />
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SZ: Grass hat sich in einem SZ-Interview korrigiert und die Kritik angenommen,
dass er Israel mit israelischer Regierung hätte austauschen müssen.<br />
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Brumlik: Das macht es aber überhaupt nicht besser, auch die Regierung Netanjahu
- die mir politisch durchaus unsympathisch ist - plant nicht, das iranische
Volk auszulöschen.<br />
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SZ: Man könnte das so lesen, dass Grass - etwas verschwurbelt - die radioaktive
Verseuchung meint. Eine mögliche Folge, wenn die Atomanlagen tatsächlich
bombardiert werden würden.<br />
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Brumlik: Dann hätte der Interviewer da härter nachgreifen müssen, was Grass
wirklich meint. Meines Erachtens gibt es in Iran auch keine Atomkraftwerke,
sondern Zentrifugen, die immer tiefer verbuddelt werden. Und das bestimmt nicht
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several English and one America translation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.</span></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den
Erstschlag,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">einer Atombombe vermutet wird.</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Doch warum untersage ich mir,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten
-</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zugänglich ist?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses
Tatbestandes,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">empfinde ich als belastende Lüge</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">sobald er mißachtet wird;</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist
geläufig.</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das von ureigenen Verbrechen,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">die ohne Vergleich sind,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt
wird,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung
deklariert,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein
will,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene Wahrheit</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und bleiben will, zuzumuten.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Warum sage ich jetzt erst,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Weil gesagt werden muß,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">auch weil wir - als Deutsche belastet genug -</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">durch keine der üblichen Ausreden</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zu tilgen wäre.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">gleichfalls darauf bestehen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">des israelischen atomaren Potentials</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und der iranischen Atomanlagen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">durch eine internationale Instanz</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen
wird.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und
Palästinensern,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">vom Wahn okkupierten Region</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">But why have I kept silent till now?</span></b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Because I thought my own origins,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Tarnished by a stain that can never be
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">meant I could not expect Israel, a land<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">to which I am, and always will be,
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">to accept this open declaration of the
truth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Why only now, grown old,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">and with what ink remains, do I say:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Israel's atomic power endangers<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">an already fragile world peace?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">Because what must be said<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">may be too late tomorrow;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">and because – burdened enough as
Germans –<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">we may be providing material for a
crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">that is foreseeable, so that our
complicity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">wil not be expunged by any<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">of the usual excuses.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">And granted: I've broken my silence<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">because I'm sick of the West's
hypocrisy;<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">and I hope too that many may be freed<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">from their silence, may demand<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">that those responsible for the open
danger we face renounce the use of force,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">may insist that the governments of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">both Iran and Israel allow an
international authority<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">free and open inspection of<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-highlight: yellow;">the nuclear potential and capability of
both.</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/05/gunter-grass-israel-poem-iran<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;">What must be said</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Why am I silent,
silent for too long about</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">what is plainly
evident, about what is drilled</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">in war games at
the end of which we</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">survivors are, in
any case, footnotes.</span></span><br />
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</span><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">It is the asserted right to a first strike</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">that could eliminate the Iranian people</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">enslaved and made into organized celebrants</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">by a mouthy hero because in his realm an</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">atombomb is supposed to be in construction. </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">But why do I not allow myself</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">to name that other country by name</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">in which, for years — although kept secret —</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">a growing nuclear potential lies ready</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">but not controlled because there is no access</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">for investigators. </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The general silence about this state of affairs</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">in deference to which my silence exists,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">I experience as a burdensome lie</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">and restraint with promised punishment</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">as soon as it is disregarded;</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">the verdict "antisemitism" is understood.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Now however, because from my country,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">a land of primeval personal crimes</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">without comparison,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">again and again taken to task and called to explain,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">once again and simply as business, if also</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">declared thoughtlessly as reparation,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">an additional submarine is to be</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">delivered to Israel, whose specialty</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">is to direct annihilating warheads</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">to where the existence of a single atomic bomb is unproven,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">though fear provides the proof,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">I say what must be said.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Why, however, was I silent for so long?</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Because I thought my ancestry,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">afflicted by a never-to-be-overcome fault,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">requires that this fact never be spoken as truth</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">about the land of Israel to which I am bound</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">and want to remain bound.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Why say only now,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">aged and with my last ink:</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The atomic power of Israel endangers</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">world peace, which is delicate in any case?</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Because it must be said</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">what as early as tomorrow could be too late;</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">also because we — as Germans burdened enough—</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">could be deliverers of a crime</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">that can be foreseen, through which our shared guilt</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">could be overcome by none of</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">the usual excuses.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
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</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Admitted: I remain silent no longer</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">because I have had enough of the hypocrisy of the West;</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">in addition, one might hope that many</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">might free themselves from silence,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">challenging those responsible for the predictable danger</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">to renounce violence and</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">also to require</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">that unhindered and permanent oversight</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">of the Israeli atomic potential</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">and of the Iranian atomic facilities</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">by an international court</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">be allowed by the rulers of both countries.</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Only thus can everyone, the Israelis and Palestinians,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">and more, all people who live densely packed together </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">as enemies in these </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">regions occupied by insanity</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span></b><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">and finally we too be helped.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Why have I kept silent, silent for too long<br />
over what is openly played out<br />
in war games at the end of which we<br />
the survivors are at best footnotes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">It’s that claim of a right to first strike<br />
against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—<br />
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people<br />
on suspicion that under his influence<br />
an atom bomb’s being built.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">But why do I forbid myself<br />
to name that other land in which<br />
for years—although kept secret—<br />
a usable nuclear capability has grown<br />
beyond all control, because<br />
no scrutiny is allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">The universal silence around this fact,<br />
under which my own silence lay,<br />
I feel now as a heavy lie,<br />
a strong constraint, which to dismiss<br />
courts forceful punishment:<br />
the verdict of “Antisemitism” is well known.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">But now, when my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes<br />
for which time and again it must be tasked—<br />
once again, in pure commerce,<br />
though with quick lips we declare it<br />
reparations, wants to send<br />
Israel yet another submarine—<br />
one whose specialty is to deliver<br />
warheads capable of ending all life<br />
where the existence of even one<br />
nuclear weapon remains unproven,<br />
but where suspicion serves for proof—<br />
now I say what must be said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">But why was I silent for so long?<br />
Because I thought my origin,<br />
marked with an ineradicable stain,<br />
forbade mention of this fact<br />
as definite truth about Israel, a country<br />
to which I am and will remain attached.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Why is it only now I say,<br />
in old age, with my last drop of ink,<br />
that Israel’s nuclear power endangers<br />
an already fragile world peace?<br />
Because what by tomorrow might be<br />
too late, must be spoken now,<br />
and because we—as Germans, already<br />
burdened enough—could become<br />
enablers of a crime, foreseeable and therefore<br />
not to be eradicated<br />
with any of the usual excuses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">And admittedly: I’m silent no more<br />
because I’ve had it with the West’s hypocrisy<br />
—and one can hope that many others too<br />
may free themselves from silence,<br />
challenge the instigator of known danger<br />
to abstain from violence,<br />
and at the same time demand<br />
a permanent and unrestrained control<br />
of Israel’s atomic power<br />
and Iranian nuclear plants<br />
by an international authority<br />
accepted by both governments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: lime; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-highlight: lime;">Only thus can one give help<br />
to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,<br />
all the peoples, neighbour-enemies<br />
living in this region occupied by madness<br />
—and finally, to ourselves as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Politics of
the Beast<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><a href="http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/">http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Poetics of
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;"><a href="http://artscritic.blogspot.com/">http://artscritic.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 20.0pt;">by May 15<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 20.0pt;">Comments welcome<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref=name">http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref=name</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
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others that highlight equivalent errors of our own precipitate a moral
disappointment that permits us to assume the strict and noble stance of both
judge and victim and gives rise to an inner state of moral euphoria. This
euphoria distances us swiftly and surely from the process of personal moral
perfection and makes of us terrible and merciless and even bloodthirsty judges.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background: aqua; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-highlight: aqua;">They all scream
“anti-semitism” – after a while you notice, even a dummy like me, that not a
one of them addresses the issue that Grass addresses: <u>not a one counters
Grass indisputable charge that the Netanjahu government is planning a first
strike!</u></span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div>
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intended, <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Munich’s S</span></u></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';">ü</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ddeutsche Zeitung,
La Repubblica in Italy, and Las Pais in Madrid published a peace poem of sorts
by this famous German novelist, playwright, poet and visual artist, and Nobel
Prize Winner for Literature,<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></span></div>
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for his early work, warning of an impending war and its conceivable
consequences, <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></span></div>
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world had absorbed, been shocked, outraged, delighted or dumbfounded by <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></span></div>
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be the same:</span></u></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></div>
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Submarines became swimming pools for <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jewish, Persian,
Palestinian and Arab tots; <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the Persian Gulf, the Red and the Dead Sea
were swamped by champagne. Rockets of all kinds turned into crayons, the sky looked
as though it had become a plaything of Raoul Dufy’s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> President Amindebejad of Persia turned into a
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taking estrogen shots and, instead of resembling that infamous German shepherd “Wolfie,”
turned into a friendly Hungarian sheep dog that bounced tennis balls off walls.
Avigdor Liebermann decided to live up to his last name and had genetic <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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eliminate Cossack rapists and Mongolian raider genes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Palestinians and
Jews all over <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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adopt a Chinese menu<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">and intermarry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peace reigned.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">And President
Obama scratched his head and thought to himself,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Well, at least
I’ve got that headache licked. Michelle,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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Günter for a special White House dinner. I wonder whether he’s ever<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">enjoyed soul
food?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">But before all
those fine things transpired the world had one last big hiccup and <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">during this one
month hiccup it was passing strange to notice that a poem – or, an op-ed articulated
in lines vestigially poetic,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> but marked by pathos, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> funeral in tone – <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Part I: <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Politics of
the Beast<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">what is plainly
evident, about what is drilled</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">in war games at
the end of which we</span></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #CCCCCC;">survivors are, at
the very most, footnotes [1]</span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">exercised heads
of state, quite a few ministers in Israel and Germany and<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">at least one
prime minister, Netanyahoo of Israel</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">to say:</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="background: lime; mso-highlight: lime;">Günter
Grass's shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran, a regime that
denies the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel, says little about
Israel and much about Mr. Grass,<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">a view he would reiterate quite a few
more times and in an interview in <u>Die Welt</u> [instead, say, of ignoring
the challenge, nothing as unsettling had happened to Bibi in years].<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">And </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">if you were
from the proverbial Mars, you might be wondering what was going on<i>: </i>When last has a poem tossed entire
governments into a tizzy, its foreign ministers [the German Westerwelle dissociating
his government from the Nobel Prize winner], the Israeli one quickly making G</span></b></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ü</span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">nter Grass, into
a persona non grata [3], who had visited Israel a number of times and
volunteered to physically support it during the 1967 Six Day War: governments as tetchy as though the prophet’s
beard that had been smeared <i>I</i> would
say; insecure, defensive aggressive says Fritz Stern about that government <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/debatte-um-israel-gedicht-grass-erntet-lob-vom-iran-und-der-friedensbewegung-1810648.html.</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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specifically the Netanyahoo government he had in mind as being the most
immediate danger to world peace. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">When last has a poem that bends over backwards to
assume guilt that is not its or Günter Grass’s to assume: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">“But why was I silent for so
long?<br />
Because I thought my origin,<br />
marked with an ineradicable stain,<br />
forbade mention of this fact<br />
as definite truth about Israel, a country to which I am and will remain
attached.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">But now, when my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes for which time and again it must be
tasked—</span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">..”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">instantly
elicited its own prophesied…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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feel now as a heavy lie,<br />
a strong constraint, which to dismiss courts forceful punishment:<br />
the verdict of “Antisemitism” is well known.”<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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of charges of ‘anti-semitism’ for criticizing a particular government’s well
announced and publicized plans and known intentions – indeed nothing new in the
poem initially when it mentions the current Israeli government’s intention to
eliminate Iran’s ability to be in a position, even if it lacks the intention,
to build an atomic bomb: and to do so on its own or, as it would prefer, with
U.S. backing. Netanyahu had been in the U.S. just a few weeks before Grass
published his poem, had addressed AIPAC<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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received rousing backing from the U.S. Congress, but President Obama told him
to hold off, at least until after the November 2012 election, and whatever
outcome of the resumed negotiations, which most likely would place impossibly
onerous conditions on Iran, thus triggering the attack. An act of war – there
were of course the usual geo-political monsters who claimed that Iran would not
retaliate. – Yes, maybe that was it: a foolish old poet had presumed to be a
geopolitical monster! He had upset an apple cart!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">All
kinds of acts were already being committed by both Iran and Israel that would
have triggered World War One. Although Iran did not go around assassinating Israeli
nuclear scientists, it supported armed groups that supported the cause of the
Palestinians. Internecine low-grade warfare prevails.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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these lines: <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">“But now, when
my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes for which time and again it must be
tasked—<br />
once again, in pure commerce,<br />
though with quick lips we declare it reparations, wants to send<br />
Israel yet another submarine—<br />
one whose specialty is to deliver<br />
warheads capable of ending all life<br />
where the existence of even one<br />
nuclear weapon remains unproven,<br />
but where suspicion serves for proof—<br />
now I say what must be said.”<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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could not speak more plainly, could he? But it was news that Germany was
supplying Israel with those cute Delphin submarines whose tubes were machined
so as to be capable of firing nuclear tipped rockets; also, that Chancellor
Angela Merkel had made a commitment to Israel to back it no matter what, no
matter what government it appears. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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attackers and defenders of the poem during the past month<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> – the archive at </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html" target="_blank">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';"> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">contains hundreds of links to stories and positions
taken and quotes from them – <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">can be</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">divided into
two camps: <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">ONE that
parallels the interest of the US Neo-Cons – <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">they voiced
their opinion in the various German publications, Die Welt, Die Zeit, the
F.A.Z, in the U.S. at once in The New Republic, The National Interest,
Commentary, Huffington and in “heeb” and in the Jerusalem Post; they see the
conquest of Iran as one last grasp for the imperial control that eluded them in
Iraq and Afghanistan – but as a mosquito called Grass, the spirit of Oskar
Mazerat, had managed to bite trough their thick hides. A pest like Grass might
actually succeed in waylaying their best-laid plans. God forbid, take him down!
Destroy him! – <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Grass’s
supporters were to be found among pacifists and socialists and Jewish
anti-Zionists, in Germany, in the U.S. as well as in Israel. [</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Although </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html" target="_blank">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</a></span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">also has the
poem in Spanish and Italian translation and a few links to reactions in those
language spheres, I did not find anything materially different from what I did
in the three areas that I believe I covered pretty well]<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Of course Islamic
voices chimed in from all over; mostly supportive but not all; most amusingly
from far off Sri Lanka – such events as</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">the
Grass brouhaha invariably elicit the sideshow comedies: Grass became a Jew who
criticized Israel, Iran was portrayed as pure as the virgin Fatima!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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uniformly iran clad as the Neo-Cons therefore, were voices that did not speak
in pre-fabricated language, not with the
unanimity of the Neo-Cons: e.g. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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Fritz Stern’s Felicitas von Lovenberg interview in the F.A.Z., the
German-American Jewish historian at Columbia University;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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Jakob Augstein, the son of Rudolf whose wonderful <u>Jesus Son of Man</u> I
published in this country to the consternation of indigenous Taliban, and who
has his own interesting magazine, <u>Der Freitag</u>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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the Scots writer Massey who took the trouble to actually take a look at Grass’s
“career” as a child soldier, that landed him in the SS for a few months; <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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the so humane novelist Louis Begley who, however much he too despises the
Netanyahoo government can’t see past the 17 year old Grass’s SS <i>Runen</i> – I empathize but, nonetheless,
find it a failure of the imagination. I must confess to having that lack when
it comes to the matter of torture. A significant moment in my life occurred in
1947 when I happened to be reading a broadsheet account of life at Buchenwald
and I came on a passage that detailed how one of my grandfathers, whose fourth
concentration camp it was, was tortured. Something clicked and I realized I had
to get out of the fairy tale murder land, as I then did a few years later.
However, it is the manner in which the Neo-Cons, especially Josef Joffe, rub
Grass’s nose [“career in the SS”] in his membership that tells you, or at least
it tells me, that these men – they are all men – would blithely torture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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The German-Jewish writer and poet Esther Dischereit, several of whose essays I
have translated, has a nicely differentiated take on the Grass poem, and you
can find it on the goalies-anxiety site.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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are others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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nastiest of this lot by a very logghoreaic shot is your German Neo-Con par
excellence Josef Joffe, the most vitriolic, the most over the top, as though he
must have been hyper-ventilating when he wrote his piece and then re-wrote it
in American for the Wall Street Journal – see anon for my point by point
decimation of his piece that proves my occasion for a point by point discussion
of the poems tender parts because he tosses every pot and pan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Grass
got into particular trouble for letting his imagination flower a little too
apocalyptically by implying that Israel had the intention currently of
extinguishing the Iranian people. Plus quam perfect and praesenz seem
compounded in thes lines:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">Why is it only now I say,<br />
in old age, with my last drop of ink,<br />
that Israel’s nuclear power endangers an already fragile world peace?</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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he shoots ahead of himself into a war situation where recourse is taken to
atomic bombs. After all, what Israel/ US is planning and most likely will do is
use bunker busting bombs on those sites where work related fissionable
materials is performed, and eliminate the Iranian airfields. That is an act of
war that will have catastrophic consequences for which the perpetrators will go
on trial as little as they did the last several times and Iran will know that
it absolutely needs an Atomic bomb to defend itself and it will acquire it or
the means to produce it from one of its allies, say China or Pakistan or even
India which buys more of its oil than anyone else. If Grass had written a
regular op-ed, he would have had to elaborate along those lines. But Grass
wrote a poem with a Goetterdaemerung ending and wanted to provoke a discussion,
and he sure succeeded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">After
all, most of the poem expresses an unexceptional desire for peace:</span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">“And
admittedly: I’m silent no more<br />
because I’ve had it with the West’s hypocrisy<br />
—and one can hope that many others too may free themselves from silence, challenge
the instigator of known danger<br />
to abstain from violence,<br />
and at the same time demand<br />
a permanent and unrestrained control of Israel’s atomic power<br />
and Iranian nuclear plants<br />
by an international authority<br />
accepted by both governments.</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">”<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">Who can
argue with that? Boiler plate pacifism if ever there was such. It just occurs
to me that instead of just wanting to be in the limelight one last time, to be
noticed, maybe Günter wants to add the luster of the Nobel Peace Prize to his
name. <i>Ex-Obergruppenfuehrer</i> wins
Nobel Peace Prize! Why not, if Jimmy Carter, the destabilizer of Afghanistan,
can win it and if Obama can and turn around and become President of Drone Assassination,
Inc. Grass of course turned into an SS officer, on a Huffington blog in the WW
Web’s version of <u>One Hundred Years of Solitude</u>; it is a wonder that he
did not become a major Nazi monster! Perhaps he has, my Google spider and my
tracking its vagaries are bound to have missed quite a few things.</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';"> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">To the Zionist gangs in Germany that disrupt Socialist support meetings
he has become “a notorious anti-Semite.” How quickly, within a matter of a few
weeks, the discussion degenerates, and into fisticuffs!</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">[B]<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">So
I wonder one again why a wildfire, a daisy chain of denunciation spread in the
petri dish of the world wide net which I and fellow Germanist and scholar Scott
Abbott have archived in all its manifestations at Scott’s </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html" target="_blank">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</a></span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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charge of anti-Semitism was first voiced by a certain German publicist, Henryk Broder,
once a writer of pornography for a journal of that kind in Hamburg’s notorious St. Pauli district, in <u>Die Welt,</u> which
together with <u>Das Bild,</u><i> </i>which
of course chimed in, as did Fox News, is <i>the</i>
chief organ of the Axel Springer Concern, a Murdochian conglomerate that,
however, has a fairly decent <i>Feuilliton</i>
these days overseen by Peter Handke’s friend, the fine writer Weinzierl. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Broder had
been e-mailed, as he admitted a few weeks after his initial article, a copy of
the poem just prior to its publication</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> in Munich <u> </u></span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u> </u></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a href="http://www.welt.de/debatte/henryk-m-broder/article106160221/Ein-autoritaerer-Knochen-spielt-verfolgte-Unschuld.html">http://www.welt.de/debatte/henryk-m-broder/article106160221/Ein-autoritaerer-Knochen-spielt-verfolgte-Unschuld.html</a></span> <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><br clear="all" />
</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Broder’s
hysterical take on the poem was quickly picked up by his friend Josef Joffe at <u>Die
Zeit </u>and by the FAZ, and reprinted in the Burda publication <u>Focus,</u>
Herr Burda’s failed attempt to compete with Augstein’s <u>Der Spiegel.</u> the <u>Allgemeine
Zeitung</u> of the <u>Frankenfurt</u> on the river Main, which, on publishing
the first of their several attacks on Grass, prior to that fine interview with the
Columbia University Professor Fritz Stern, mentioned a half dozen US
publications aligned with them in their condemnation, The New Republic, The
National Interest, Commentary, something called “heeb”, Bernard Henry Levy in
Huffington. Electronically, a daisy chain of that kind creates itself nearly at
the speed of light! <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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very little distinguishes Joffe’s attack from Broder’s, <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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F.A.Z.’s own Co-publisher Strittmacher’s attack</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';"> <br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/eine-erlaeuterung-was-grass-uns-sagen-will-11708120.html--">http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/eine-erlaeuterung-was-grass-uns-sagen-will-11708120.html–</a></span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br />
</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';">is
by far the most brilliant of the lot. He starts off with the tactical
concession that the poem, as an op-ed, is unexceptional, as indeed it is. Then
he lets us in on the secret that, as we learned already in high school, every
poem also contains a secret sub-text – Mr. Strittmatter is innocent of Susan
Sontag’s <u>Against Interpretation.</u> And then he tells us he will take out
his <i>Schraubenzieher</i>, what we call
“screw driver,” and extract the subtext for us. After he has his hand full of
screws he flings them at Grass as though he had really tried to smuggle a
freight train worth’s of anti-Semitism from his unconscious into the pure souls
of the modern reformed democratic German. Indeed, Strittmatter created an
entirely believable construct – except it is his, he only reveal how his
associative network works. But it is a brilliant job and he ought to take
himself and it, the vicious circle in which he dwells, to one or other fine
shrinks in Frankfurt am Main. </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';">[</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';">Incidentally, this is not the first time I had
noticed as much about Herr Strittmatter, he came to my attention during the
controversies attendant Peter Handke’s so very different take on the
disintegration of Yugoslavia, which was the first instance where I pursued a
story on the web: at that time there was no Google spider, it required a team
of a dozen different search engine, a Zwoelfgespann!]</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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except that he is mad, for he then condemns his construct, which indeed
deserves condemnation, but fails to notice that he condemns himself. A very pure case of that! Josef Joffe whose
piece will serve me as a case of specifics, by compare with Strittmatter, is a <i><u>Stuemper</u>, </i>an amateur who makes up
in hyperventilating over the top viciousness what he lacks in finesse.
Essentially he says the same thing as his friend Henryk Broder who got the ball
rolling, and Strittmatter and the U.S. Neo-Cons, which is why I </span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> focus in A to Z detail on just one of these
pieces. I will cover the rainbow! Joffe, the editor in jefe of <u>Die Zeit</u>, is a real sharpie and that
rare German an excellent Neo-Con in good standing, friend of </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New';">Brzezinski, the
destabilizer of Afghanistan</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">, co-founder of The National Interest, an
enthusiastic backer of the Iraq war, a member of the Hoover Institute, Google
his image and you will see the company he keeps, Hennery the K of Wurstburg on
the Hudson as I have been calling Kissinger for 30 years, Netanyahoo, etc.etc. </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Joffe">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Joffe</a></span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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I close focus on Joffe and his piece also because I happen to have met him and
savored his spanieling to the Bushes during a lecture while I was visiting
scholar in Germanics at the University of Washington in Seattle which Joffe visited
just prior to the 2000 election; and because he is the editor of a weekly that
was so much worthier when it was edited by my aunt, Marion Doehnhoff.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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just such a Spaniel who will deliver himself of as nasty a piece of work as he
did in the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages, he must have been
hyper-ventilating as he turned into his version of the hip American.<i> </i>But like the other Neo-Con pieces, his
piece, too, is devoid of a single quote from the poem. We are in the world of propaganda
slaughter pretty much at its lowest denominator, although let us never forget
how low the Pogo stick can go, let us not forget “heeb.” [see anon]. Here is the
revised version, where the original 72
comments have in the cleaned up version been
shrunk to 12!.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>To my comment I then
had the following reply from one Michael Antebi : <a href="http://online.wsj.com/community/69ff2474-6d80-479b-b98e-d372e3712661?mod=djemcomnewtrackedcomment">Michael
Antebi's</a> reply: Bless the first strike.Where would the U.S. be if
the Israelis didn't destroy the nuclear bomb development of Iraq (which gave
Libya second thoughts) and Syria? How many more American boys would have been
killed in Iraq? - Madness rules! A reactor is years from a bomb!</b><cite><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New'; font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></cite></span></div>
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WSJ versus Günter Grass! Wow! I affix letters (a) trough (z) to indicate what I
will comment on:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">The Mendacity of
Günter Grass<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></i></b></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">In the Nobel literature laureate's
imagination, Israel threatens the globe and cows Germans into shamed silence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Nobel
laureate Günter Grass, 84, is a poster boy of "re-education,"
America's therapy for post-Hitler Germany. Or he was. In 2006, this
chest-thumping anti-Nazi laid bare his long-concealed career [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">a]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> in the
Waffen-SS, the war-fighting arm of Heinrich Himmler's Schutzstaffel. Had Mr.
Grass, who was reportedly hospitalized yesterday for heart problems, sprung the
shocker a decade earlier, his 1959 novel "The Tin Drum" would still
shine forth as a masterwork, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">[b]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> but without the Nobel Prize, which he was awarded in 1999.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Just
before Easter this year, Mr. Grass launched a bigger bombshell, a poem titled
"What Must Be Said." The explosion continues to reverberate around
the country and, indeed, the world. The gist: For too long, the poet had been
cowed </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">[c]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> into silence by a knout he calls the "verdict of
anti-Semitism."<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">But
in his dotage,[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">d] </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">he finally dared speak out against the [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">e</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] diktat because Israel was readying a "first
strike" that would "extinguish" Iran [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">f</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] and the
"fragile world peace." The entire planet would be Israel's victim, </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">[g</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]and the
survivors "at best" mere "footnotes" in the annals of
"annihilation." Germany, though, would "share the guilt"
because it was arming Israel with nuclear-capable U-Boats</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[h]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="" name="U603868873414Y9E"></a><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Thus did the bard go into battle against
"hypocrisy" and "lies." Never mind that Iran is </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">routinely threatening Israel </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">with eradication [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">i],</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> for Israel has the bomb and Iran does not. President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is but a "loudmouth," a lamb in wolf's clothing</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[j]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Was
this anti-Semitism, as Emmanuel Nahshon, Israel's envoy to Germany, intimated? </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">[k] </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">The poem, Mr.
Nahshon explained, was in the "European tradition" of sticking the
Jews with blood libel just before Passover</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[l]
</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Back then, it was matzo made with the
"blood of Christian children." Today, the "Iranian people"
were "slated for extinction" by Israel</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[m]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">Mr.
Grass hadn't actually penned a free-verse update of the "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion." After the Holocaust, traditional anti-Semitism is out.
Jews are no longer fingered as Christ killers, usurers and despoilers of the
Aryan race.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">But
Mr. Grass's indictment is rife with post-Shoah analogues. [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">n] </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Carefully coded,
it pins on the Jewish state what used to be applied to Jews throughout the
ages.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="" name="U6038688734140DC"></a><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">We are not talking here about criticizing Israeli policy, a
legitimate pursuit. This is a perhaps subconscious sequel [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">o</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]to the real
thing, which has always rested on the four pillars of demonization, conspiracy,
omnipotence and obsession. [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">p</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] If Jews used to be demonized as endlessly malevolent, Mr.
Grass now charges Israel with concocting the greatest possible evil: a nuclear
Holocaust to be visited on Iran and the entire world.[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">q]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">So
now, Israel is the global conspirator, which raises the fantasy of "World
Jewry" to the nth power. The "Elders" plotted merely to rule the
world; Israel would annihilate it. Why blame Israel rather than any of the
seven official nuclear powers, whose combined punch dwarfs the presumed number
of Israeli warheads by a factor of 50 to 200?<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="" name="U603868873414RAF"></a><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">This is where obsession comes in: the recurrence of images
and ideas that the patient cannot repress. [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">r</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] The classic version is about the omnipotence of the Jew—a
real-life Satan whose unbounded might explained all evil. The new one is about
Israel's cosmic clout. Even as Mr. Grass touts his "attachment" to
Israel, recalling the my-best-friends-are-Jewish refrain, he casts the tiny
country as an überpower. [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">s</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] Apart from threatening the globe, Mr. Grass imagines,
Israel enslaves 80 million Germans by wielding the Shoah to gouge U-Boats out
of Berlin and to suppress "what must be said."[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">t</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">This
is mendacity to the max, for critical coverage of Israel is a staple of the
German media;[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">u</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]no other country gets more flak. But the falsehood is a
necessary part of the indictment. If we could only speak out, insinuates Mr.
Grass, we will save the planet by defanging Israel. By eliminating its nukes
through a "permanent control" regime, we will bring peace to the
"demented" Middle East and "help ourselves" to boot.
Compared to Israel, the "Elders" were a bunch of kindergarten kids. [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">v</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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the "return of the repressed?" The engine is unbearable guilt
feelings, though Germany has evolved into a model democracy since 1945. How to
regain moral worth? By projecting culpability onto Israel.[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">w]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">"The
Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," runs a mind-curdling
quip ascribed to Zvi Rex, an Israeli psychiatrist.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">[x</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] You don't need
a shrink to deconstruct this defense mechanism. Our grandfathers did it, but
the Israelis, who won't let us forget, are just as bad. Three classics are:
"They are the new Nazis," "Gaza is like the Warsaw Ghetto"
and "We learned our lesson, the Israelis did not." In the morality
play fabricated by Mr. Grass, who has his own past to live down, Israel is
worse than Hitler</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[y]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Thus,
the accounts are squared, with a tidy moral surplus left over for Mr. Grass and
his new friends on the far left and far right. The good news is that the poem
did not play well in the middle. For the past two weeks, the media have weighed
in against the bard, saying "what must be said" in a very different
way: that he had breached a 70-year old moral consensus, that he had turned the
moral universe upside-down by casting Israel as aggressor and Iran as victim.[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">z</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">The
bad news oozes out from the underground, in spades. Go to the website of any paper
that has run critical pieces on Mr. Grass and read the comments, thousands of
them. By a rough count, 90% cheer Mr. Grass. "At last!" is but the
mildest applause. The rest is venom poured on the authors: abuse, hatred and,
yes, plain old anti-Semitism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="" name="U603868873414CK"></a><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">The arsonist has lost the battle above-ground. Yet below,
he is the redeemer who has finally struck a blow against those—Israel, Jewry,
the political class—who rob Germany of dignity and freedom. Still, the odds are
that the breach won't lead to a rout of the stalwarts.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">Germany
in 2012 is a normal country, a solid liberal democracy. The norm for Europe is
for 15%-20% of the population to possess opinions labeled by the pollsters as
"latent" anti-Semitism. Germany is not an outlier, but mainstream.
Considering the past, that is reassuring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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Joffe is editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg, senior fellow of the Freeman-Spogli
Institute for International Studies and fellow of the Hoover Institution, both
at Stanford.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></cite></div>
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</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“SS Career” – which term for the three months on the
part of a 17 year old Grass Herr Joffe does not appear to mention ironically.
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let me add a few notes to what Massie writes. The SS at that time was hard up
for bodies, it was no longer the favored option, it needed to recruit, to
draft, and if you said not the same thing would happen to you as to the 7th day
Adventist whom Grass describes. The SS was putting up divisions manned by
Ukrainians, who also had very little choice over the matter. However, Grass one
must assume was exposed to anti-Semitic propaganda since, born in 1928, he was
certainly exposed to it, and had a fervent Nazi for a father, and volunteered
for the armed forces, or was it the Navy at age 15. His father, according to a
recent book that treats of how three successful German writers dealt with their
soldiering past, took him to Gdinia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Nachdem der 1999 mit dem Nobelpreis geehrte
Autor der "Blechtrommel" mit 78 Jahren die Courage gefunden hatte,
jenes pikante Detail aus seiner Jugend öffentlich zu machen, fügte Michael
Jürgs in die Neuauflage seiner Grass-Biografie den Satz ein: "Günter Grass
bekannte, seine Nuss knackend, sich als Siebzehnjähriger freiwillig zur
Waffen-SS gemeldet zu haben", gegen den Grass gerichtlich mit einer
Unterlassungsklage vorging. Die Einberufung zur Waffen-SS sei ohne sein aktives
Zutun erfolgt, behauptet Grass und beruft sich auf von ihm "klar erinnerte
Fakten". Jahns hat auch in diesem Falle nachgeforscht und glaubt, die
"Erinnerung" des Autors, der sich 1943 als Kriegsfreiwilliger nicht
in seinem Wehrmachts-Stadtkreis Danzig meldete, sondern mit dem Vater, einem
überzeugten NSDAP-Mitglied, ins 17 Kilometer entfernte Gotenhafenfuhr,
widerlegen zu können. Gotenhafen (heute Gdynia) sei, behauptet Jahns, damals
Anlaufstelle für SS-Freiwillige gewesen…</span>.<span style="background: white;">"An
Adolf Hitlers 56. Geburtstag, am 20. April 1945, findet sich (...) der
siebzehnjährige SS-Richtschütze Günter Grass mitten in der Niederlausitz, der
Heimat Strittmatters, wieder. Er steht mit einem Kochgeschirr in der Hand am
Rand der Straße nach Spremberg und löffelt Erbsen. Als eine Granate einschlägt,
wird er verletzt." Ans Desertieren habe auch Grass nicht gedacht, schreibt
Jahns. Dessen "Lebensversicherung" sei ein Marschbefehl gewesen, den
er sich erkämpfte, "denn der führt ihn in die Lazarettstadt Marienbad, die
er mit letzter Willenskraft und viel Glück erreicht. So kommt er nicht in
russische, sondern in amerikanische Gefangenschaft. Seine SS-Uniform hat er
längst gewechselt."<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New'; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">First of all, Grass is ethnically a Kashubian, a very minority Slavic
tribe in former East Prussia. If anyone had actually read THE TIN DRUM he would
know [1] that in that region all the Slavs had German names and all the
Kowalskis were German, and that with respect to Nationalism this lent a special
twist and that Grass was possibly pro-Jewish
in the loving way he describes the Jewish toy salesman / store owner in Dansk.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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it to a larger public until 2007 in his memoir PEELNG THiE ONION. Now everyone
rubs his nose in it. How cheap and nasty can you get! These dreadful people
like Josef Joffe who could be a right-hand man to a Goebbels have nothing
better to do to.</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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the shot-up battalion that was suddenly encamped around our pond for a last
stand to defend Bremen in late Aril 1945 had given me and my cousin Ditloff
guns to go into the maquis overlooking a sunken chausee where the first
Americans were patrolling in jeeps and personell carries I am sure we would
have been willing cub werewolves. At age 6 when my parents called at Christmas
from Istambul [1942 or 43] I had proudly sung, to their horror as the later
told me, the anthem of the German Navy “We lay off-shore from Madagscar and had
the plague on board”, I was making awkward drawing of bombers dropping shit –
sausages. The war and its propaganda seeped into you – newspapers, radio. I saw
a single propaganda film, of a German tank entering a huge barn and the barn
collapsing in its wake. However, I was fortunate, my parents had been in the
resistance to Hitler as of the mid-30s, quite a few close relatives had
meanwhile been killed by Hitler for their activities, my grandfather as at the
head of the hit-list during the “Night of the Long Knives” and if I had been
old enough to be clued in as to what was going on behind the propaganda front I
suspect it would have taken less time than the three months - May through August 1945 to be thoroughly
disabused of all kinds of nationalism, for the rest of my life. There is no
better cure for that bug than having your parents miraculously survive their
respective Gestapo imprisonment! My quarrel with Grass with respect to his
brief SS membership goes to his speaking up against Kohl and Reagan visiting
Bitburg cemetery because 44 SS men are interred there as well: Grass might so
easily have been one of them too, no? At that point I wonder a little about our
moralist on his soap box – for it is my feeling that there is nothing as
foolish, or just as foolish, as to persecute idiot boys for their being
indoctrinated, usually by their father. And: BURY THE DEAD, and let them indeed
rest in peace – which means that we do not want to be bothered by recollections
of how foolish they were.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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demonstrated most recently during the run-up to the Irak war. How gullible it is is being demonstrated by
the propaganda being disseminated about the danger that Iran poses – which is
where old and new Grass comes in and the same Neo-Cons who brought you the Iraq
fiasco. A new villain is needed to be vilified. How dangerous is Iran? In the
very immediate not at all. But the more
pressure that is put on it, the more so it will become. If you follow this link
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address to an Iranian congress you will see the case that he makes out against
Israel. Iran regards it as a beachhead of imperialism, a matter it is difficult
to quarrel with if you look back at how Iran has suffered its consequences… in the most immediate past
… not just the three hundred year time span in which A. is thinking: the deposing of Mossadegh, the
installation of the Shah, U.S. support for Saddam Hussein’s war against Iran.
That speech does not contain a denial of
the holocaust, but his denials of it clearly are meant to deprive Israel of
that justification for its existence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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the grace not to dump on THE TIN DRUM – however, did he read it closely enough
to note Grass so loving portray of the Jewish toy dealer as to perhaps
introduce a bit of doubt about his charge of anti-Semitism, or is he himself
such a loyal Neo-Con servant that all such considerations go out of the way of
propaganda?<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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heavy handed satirist, isn’t he now. Grass felt restrained, I take him at his
word here; he does not strike me as senile although “last ink” (<i>letzte Tinte) </i>indicates that he knows he
will not have the 2<sup>nd</sup> life-time that he deserves and has earned
with his books; we are not living in the
world of the “diktat” – although we might as a Zeit employee of Herr Joffe. Spaniels in charge are normally
the nastiest lot!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">e) f) g) h) i) “extinguish” “victims” “nuclear capable
U-Boats” – I elaborated above ] on how it might come to an extinction of the
Iranian people, and not that far- fetched a fantasy it is if a war is started;
Grass nowhere says that they will be exclusively the victims of Israel,
implicit in this is the U.S. and German backing of Israel. But certainly there is a bitter irony to the
fact that the beachhead Israel, the U.S. three billion dollar a year aircraft
carrier feels so threatened that it may launch a pre-emptive attack with such
eventual consequences. The “nuclear capable” U-Boat are equipped with rocket
pipes machined to be able to deliver Israeli nuclear rockets – if that is the
case, someone is sure thinking ahead, Herr Joffe, and if the aging diver into
sunken mine sweepers Guenter Grass with his friends in the <i>Marine</i> can find out, you sure are well positioned to ascertain the
truth or falsehood of Grass’s proposition!<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">j) “loudmouth” k) “anti-Semitic” (l) Passover (m)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Much
has been made of Grass calling Aminejabad a “Loudmouth”, instead of calling him
worse things. Well, I would agree that A. is a loudmouth, especially to his own
people, he appears to be a populist demagogue. However A. does not have the
last word in Iran. Although the short-time threat from Iran would seem
negligible, if we look at these statements, even though they do not call for
the annihilation of Israel, it is regarded as an Imperialist beachhead, which
indisputably it has been since the Truman Doctrine also applied to it in 1948.
The threat that Iran poses, one or the other statement by A. is used to fan the
paranoia that Netanjahu and the Neo-Cons use to fan the flames for a pre-emptive
attack. Wars are frequently started more for internal political reaons. </span></b></span><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Admits
Ahmadinejad Never said Israel Should Be 'Wiped Off the Face of the Map.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: silver; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">In other words. Netanyahoo is a Yahoo of
a liar, a demagogue hectoring the world into war. But Netanyahoo is not that
oddball hollering fire at a street corner in Iceland, he has backers, the US
Neo-Cons, the <u>Amerika ueber Alles</u> crowd and its camp followers.<i> Indeed, the situation is dire. </i>Guenter
Grass has a point, that is why the attack on him is so fierce and the red
herring “anti-Semitism” is used to get off topic. <span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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all scream “anti-semitism” – after a while you notice, even a dummy like me,
that not a one of them addresses the issue that Grass addresses: <u>not a one
counters Grass charge that the Netanjahu government is planning a first strike!</u>
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WHY WHY WILL NO ONE FACE THAT EXCEPT,
SAY, JAKOB AUGSTEIN???<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New'; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;">The poem is not anti-semitic - nor
is Grass, Israel’s previous German ambassador testifies to that that and so
does Fritz Stern who saw a great deal of Grass through the 70 and 80s and so do
a lot of other people who have worked with Grass or have known for a few dogs
ages.Grass bends over backward to get past that obvious hurdle. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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under which my own silence lay,<br />
I feel now as a heavy lie,<br />
a strong constraint, which to dismiss<br />
courts forceful punishment:<br />
the verdict of “Antisemitism” is well known.</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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guilty of primal and unequalled crimes<br />
for which time and again it must be tasked</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New';">—</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New'; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Grass's truth that Israel/ the US has been planning, and nearly already did
execute a pre-emptive strike on Iran? For this undertaking they have the
backing of the Neo-Cons, of AIPAC, it is indeed a dangerous situation, and
there is no telling how that war would spread. <u>Whether Grass or whoever is
anti-semitic or was a Nazi as a kid, is entirely irrelevant,</u> if the
Neo-Cons could not level those charges they would find other diversions, it is
also entirely irrelevant whether Netanyahoo or Avigdor Liebermann are Jewish.
First of all, they are both demagogues and are both gangsters, goons. After a
25 year by and large secular Jewish life in New York city they don’t remind me
of any Jews I met but for the one who was known as Frank Costello’s best Jewish
friend and whose acquaintance I made during a most interesting editing job. </span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Costello">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Costello</a></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New'; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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instrumentalize the Holocaust and use it as blackmail. The US beachhead could be
manned by Hittites or Scythians for all the Pentagon cares, just as long as
they are OUR Hittites, our Scythians!</span></b><b><span style="border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-image: initial; border-left-color: windowtext; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 1pt; border-right-color: windowtext; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 1pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 1pt; color: #222222; font-family: 'Courier New'; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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the Jews with blood libel just before Passover</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[l] </span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Back then, it was
matzo made with the "blood of Christian children." Today, the
"Iranian people" were "slated for extinction" by Israel. .</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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I meant by entirely over the top Joffee. I doubt Easter was on Grass’s mind –
rather Netanyahoo’s recent visit to Washington and his address to AIPAC.</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Israeli policy, a legitimate pursuit. This is a perhaps subconscious sequel [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">o</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]to the real
thing, which has always rested on the four pillars of demonization, conspiracy.
[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">p</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] If
Jews used to be demonized as endlessly malevolent, Mr. Grass now charges Israel
with concocting the greatest possible evil: a nuclear Holocaust to be visited
on Iran and the entire world.[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">q]…</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> This is where obsession comes in: the recurrence of images
and ideas that the patient cannot repress. [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">r</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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him, and like Broder, then take to speculation and interpretation and
suppositions, and subject Grass to their own willful fantasies. Surprisingly,
Joffe knows very little about the unconscious roots of anti-Semitism – circumcision
as a threat of castration, as a narcissistic wound, envy - as do Strittmatter
or Broder, no matter that they speculate about what’s going on in Grass’s
unconscious, or what returns in and out of it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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touts his "attachment" to Israel, recalling the
my-best-friends-are-Jewish refrain, he casts the tiny country as an überpower.
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recently promised, “always had our back”, is anything but a tiny tail wagging
the dog – let us never forget that the tail connects to the spine, which
according to the same president “constitutes the steel of our military.”</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">t)</span></b></span><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"> Apart from
threatening the globe, Mr. Grass imagines, Israel enslaves 80 million Germans
by wielding the Shoah to gouge U-Boats out of Berlin and to suppress "what
must be said."[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">t</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] </span></i></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">This is ludicrous since Grass imagines nothing of the kind.<i> </i></span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">More suppositions
of the imaginative Herr Joffe’s part! Who here is mad or prematurely senile?
And like Strittmatter, Joffe then subjects Grass to his own imaginings; “</span></b></span><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">This is mendacity to the max, for critical coverage of
Israel is a staple of the German media;[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">u</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></span></div>
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Well no, it is not by any means. If it were staple of German coverage of Israel
Herr Joffe and kin and kind would not be in such a tizzy! The left tends to
upraid Israel rather one-sidedly for its treatment of the Palestinians, with
complete justification: but fails to assess the monstrosities some Palestinian
factions and some of their backers perpetrate. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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regime, we will bring peace to the "demented" Middle East and
"help ourselves" to boot. <u>Compared to Israel, the
"Elders" were a bunch of kindergarten kids.</u> [</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">v</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]</span></i></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">How
to regain moral worth? By projecting culpability onto Israel.[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">w]</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">"The
Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," runs a mind-curdling
quip ascribed to Zvi Rex, an Israeli psychiatrist.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">[x</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">] You don't need
a shrink to deconstruct this defense mechanism. Our grandfathers did it, but
the Israelis, who won't let us forget, are just as bad. Three classics are:
"They are the new Nazis," "Gaza is like the Warsaw Ghetto"
and "We learned our lesson, the Israelis did not." In the morality
play fabricated by Mr. Grass, who has his own past to live down, Israel is
worse than Hitler</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">.[y]<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">y) Of course this morality play is
concocted not by Günter Grass but by Josef Joffe who as a Polish Jew who grew up in Germany can allow himself
the luxury of these nasty jokes, which have just enough truth to them to be
quite unfunnee. But perhaps this is a good time for me to introduce my two
encounters with the SS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;"> The
first occurred in 1944 in the form of the teacher at the Schoenebeck
Volksschule. Either for fundamental obstreperousness or ambidexterousness, I
made the standard Hitler salute that started off the day in school with the wrong, with the
raised left hand. This earned me a big smack to the head, and what a fortunate
SS man it was that this seven year old did not have a side arms. This man stayed
in his job after the capitulation and a year or so later when my mother, who
had just survived Gestapo prison and barely averted execution, was dating an
American officer, who would become my stepfather, this made for nasty comments
from the unreformed SS teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;"> The
other time occurred just after the Six Day War in 1967. I was in Munich, doing
research at the Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte on a book about a member of the conspiracy
against Hitler. There was a meeting of the NPD, the neo-Nazi party, at one of
the big beer halls, and I decided not to miss this once in a life-time
opportunity. The huge cellar hall filled to about a third awaited the star of
the evening, a former SS general. I had seated myself close enough to the front
but also at some immediate remove from the old warriors. When the star of the
evening finally showed up he was greeted with loud applause and delivered
himself of a congratulation of the victorious Moshe Dayan: “Great work, and look who you learned it from!” And
the way the audience grunted its satisfaction in response showed me that there I
was in the very heart of pigsty of sadism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">“Thus,
the accounts are squared, with a tidy moral surplus left over for Mr. Grass and
his new friends on the far left and far right. The good news is that the poem
did not play well in the middle. For the past two weeks, the media have weighed
in against the bard, saying "what must be said" in a very different
way: that he had breached a 70-year old moral consensus, that he had turned the
moral universe upside-down by casting Israel as aggressor and Iran as victim.[</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">z</span></i></b><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">]<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">z) <u>Part B</u> will teach Mr. Joffe that
he needs to get out of his Neo-Con echo-chamber to hear the voices supporting
Grass. Actually, best as I can tell, Grass received no support from the right
wing, at least none that showed up on the web; and meanwhile Zionist gangs are
breaking up Socialist support meetings! <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">“The
bad news oozes out from the underground, in spades. Go to the website of any
paper that has run critical pieces on Mr. Grass and read the comments,
thousands of them. By a rough count, 90% cheer Mr. Grass. "At last!"
is but the mildest applause. The rest is venom poured on the authors: abuse, hatred
and, yes, plain old anti-Semitism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">Since I have kept such close track not only
of the numerous pieces about the Grass poem I can assure Herr Joffe that the
comments run appr. 50 con 50 pro Grass, except of course in Neo-Con sites such
as the WSJ which in its final version eliminates all critical commentary of his
piece. Ditto for many German sites, such as that of Die Welt, or Focus: critical
comments are excised before they even show up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: cyan; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Go get a life, fella!</span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Having
commented on Broder, Strittmatter, and Joffe, the latter both in Germany and in
the USA, let me stay on this side of the Atlantic and start my round-up at the
pit of the abattoir, for I hope, I can only assume, that the FAZ must not have
taken too close a look at this blog, they were so eager to find instant
transatlantic support, for who needs “anti-semitism” when we have Fabrian
Wolff’s “heeb”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="font-size: large;">“For some reason, people still care about what Günter Grass, German
author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has to say about things.
He wrote some novels more than fifty years ago that he somehow was able to
convince people were good, even if they were just overwrought and overhyped
piles of nothingness. Germany thinks of Grass as its own Philip Roth, even if
he is in reality just a second-rate copy of Thomas Mann, with cookie-cutter
grotesqueness instead of stiff philistine blathering.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Courier New';">Even worse are his late poems, which are basically all about how awesome
it is that he can still get it up and bonk. (In contrast to Roth, who seems to
be denied that grace.) “We licked ourselves like animals and then talked about
Beethoven” surely must be one of the most disgusting things ever written about
sex, in itself not a disgusting endeavour.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span><a href="http://heebmagazine.com/the-poetry-of-gunter-grass/35078">http://heebmagazine.com/the-poetry-of-gunter-grass/35078</a></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Courier New';"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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are in the world of the <i>lumpen</i> the
sickliest of <i>lumpen</i>, worse than any
old pigsty. And, by way of the gamut of
Neo-Con sites that took to the Grass poem like jackals to a cadaver, I will
work my way up to the many other critical voices, the many significant
supportive ones, to the few gemlike observations, the hilarious absurdities - as in the 100 YEAR OF SOLITUDE ON THE WEB - the
few sparks of understanding and edification that this kind of controversy
spawns.</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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there is Professor Herf in the New Republic </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/102417/grass-poem-anti-semitic-gunter<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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only links are to negative takes and who – of course – does not quote from the
poem, a twerp of a scholar at the University of Maryland with the unfortunate
looks of a gnarled turnip – there also are ugly turnips that can look beautiful
ugly, Herf is not one of those.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Thence we
are at the NATIONAL INTEREST </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/the-gunter-grass-anti-semitism-debate-6751">http://nationalinterest.org/blog/jacob-heilbrunn/the-gunter-grass-anti-semitism-debate-6751</a></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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Mr. Heilbrunn, not a complete slouch at other times, but so inflamed by GG that
he characterizes the poems as being hot-headed, which it so obviously is not with all its crablike considerations. Heilbrun’s
as obvious a case of projection of one’s own state of mind onto that of a
carefully if awkwardly put poem as can be; its very awkwardness speaks of its
authentic, even slow-witted way.</span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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abgebrochen.”</span></i></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><i> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/04/05/gunter-grass-iran-and-anti-semitism/</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">who says the
same damn thing. Right, look at these guys, if only they were member of a group
of chorus girls, all you needed do was tape their mouths before you bedded
them. Bernard Henry Levy came on board via <u>Die Welt </u></span></b></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></span></div>
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</span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: 'Courier New';">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/gunter-grass-israel-poem_b_1417160.html</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">as did Alan
Dershovitz. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
<pre><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If you are interested in how the controversy played out in Israel and numerous blogs, go to </span></b></span><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">></span></b><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: magenta; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a href="http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html">http://goaliesanxiety.blogspot.com/2012/04/gunter-grass-what-must-be-said.html</a></span></b><b> <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">contains daily updated links the 100 + different positive and negative positions taken on the Grass anti-war poem controversy.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">NOTES<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></pre>
<pre><span class="StyleBerlingAntiqua"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></u></b></span></pre>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">Warum schweige ich, verschweige zu lange,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was offensichtlich ist und in Planspielen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geübt wurde, an deren Ende als Überlebende</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wir allenfalls Fußnoten sind.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cccccc; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif;">4</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Es ist das behauptete Recht auf den
Erstschlag,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">der das von einem Maulhelden unterjochte</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und zum organisierten Jubel gelenkte</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">iranische Volk auslöschen könnte,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">weil in dessen Machtbereich der Bau</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">einer Atombombe vermutet wird.</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Doch warum untersage ich mir,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">jenes andere Land beim Namen zu nennen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">in dem seit Jahren - wenn auch geheimgehalten
-</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">ein wachsend nukleares Potential verfügbar</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">aber außer Kontrolle, weil keiner Prüfung</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zugänglich ist?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Das allgemeine Verschweigen dieses
Tatbestandes,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dem sich mein Schweigen untergeordnet hat,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">empfinde ich als belastende Lüge</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und Zwang, der Strafe in Aussicht stellt,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">sobald er mißachtet wird;</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das Verdikt "Antisemitismus" ist
geläufig.</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Jetzt aber, weil aus meinem Land,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das von ureigenen Verbrechen,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">die ohne Vergleich sind,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Mal um Mal eingeholt und zur Rede gestellt
wird,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">wiederum und rein geschäftsmäßig, wenn auch</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">mit flinker Lippe als Wiedergutmachung deklariert,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">ein weiteres U-Boot nach Israel</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">geliefert werden soll, dessen Spezialität</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">darin besteht, allesvernichtende Sprengköpfe</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dorthin lenken zu können, wo die Existenz</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">einer einzigen Atombombe unbewiesen ist,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">doch als Befürchtung von Beweiskraft sein will,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">sage ich, was gesagt werden muß.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Warum aber schwieg ich bislang?</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Weil ich meinte, meine Herkunft,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">die von nie zu tilgendem Makel behaftet ist,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">verbiete, diese Tatsache als ausgesprochene
Wahrheit</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dem Land Israel, dem ich verbunden bin</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und bleiben will, zuzumuten.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Warum sage ich jetzt erst,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">gealtert und mit letzter Tinte:</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Die Atommacht Israel gefährdet</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">den ohnehin brüchigen Weltfrieden?</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">was schon morgen zu spät sein könnte;</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">auch weil wir - als Deutsche belastet genug -</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Zulieferer eines Verbrechens werden könnten,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">das voraussehbar ist, weshalb unsere Mitschuld</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">durch keine der üblichen Ausreden</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zu tilgen wäre.</span><br />
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Und zugegeben: ich schweige nicht mehr,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">weil ich der Heuchelei des Westens</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">überdrüssig bin; zudem ist zu hoffen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">es mögen sich viele vom Schweigen befreien,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">den Verursacher der erkennbaren Gefahr</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">zum Verzicht auf Gewalt auffordern und</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">gleichfalls darauf bestehen,</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">daß eine unbehinderte und permanente Kontrolle</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">des israelischen atomaren Potentials</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und der iranischen Atomanlagen</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">durch eine internationale Instanz</span><br />
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">von den Regierungen beider Länder zugelassen
wird.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">Nur so ist allen, den Israelis und Palästinensern,</span>
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">mehr noch, allen Menschen, die in dieser</span>
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">vom Wahn okkupierten Region</span>
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">dicht bei dicht verfeindet leben</span>
<span style="background: #CCCCCC;">und letztlich auch uns zu helfen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></pre>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why have I kept silent, silent for too long<br />
over what is openly played out<br />
in war games at the end of which we<br />
the survivors are at best footnotes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s that claim of a right to first strike<br />
against those who under a loudmouth’s thumb<br />
are pushed into organized cheering—<br />
a strike to snuff out the Iranian people<br />
on suspicion that under his influence<br />
an atom bomb’s being built.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But why do I forbid myself<br />
to name that other land in which<br />
for years—although kept secret—<br />
a usable nuclear capability has grown<br />
beyond all control, because<br />
no scrutiny is allowed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The universal silence around this fact,<br />
under which my own silence lay,<br />
I feel now as a heavy lie,<br />
a strong constraint, which to dismiss<br />
courts forceful punishment:<br />
the verdict of “Antisemitism” is well known.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But now, when my own country,<br />
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes<br />
for which time and again it must be tasked—<br />
once again, in pure commerce,<br />
though with quick lips we declare it<br />
reparations, wants to send<br />
Israel yet another submarine—<br />
one whose specialty is to deliver<br />
warheads capable of ending all life<br />
where the existence of even one<br />
nuclear weapon remains unproven,<br />
but where suspicion serves for proof—<br />
now I say what must be said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But why was I silent for so long?<br />
Because I thought my origin,<br />
marked with an ineradicable stain,<br />
forbade mention of this fact<br />
as definite truth about Israel, a country<br />
to which I am and will remain attached.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Why is it only now I say,<br />
in old age, with my last drop of ink,<br />
that Israel’s nuclear power endangers<br />
an already fragile world peace?<br />
Because what by tomorrow might be<br />
too late, must be spoken now,<br />
and because we—as Germans, already<br />
burdened enough—could become<br />
enablers of a crime, foreseeable and therefore<br />
not to be eradicated<br />
with any of the usual excuses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And admittedly: I’m silent no more<br />
because I’ve had it with the West’s hypocrisy<br />
—and one can hope that many others too<br />
may free themselves from silence,<br />
challenge the instigator of known danger<br />
to abstain from violence,<br />
and at the same time demand<br />
a permanent and unrestrained control<br />
of Israel’s atomic power<br />
and Iranian nuclear plants<br />
by an international authority<br />
accepted by both governments.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to Israelis and Palestinians—still more,<br />
all the peoples, neighbour-enemies<br />
living in this region occupied by madness</span><span style="background: lime; color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-highlight: lime;"><br />
</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">—and finally, to ourselves as well.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</div>SUMMA POLITICOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11214697505465094305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22279229.post-37384876574695712672012-01-20T21:46:00.000-08:002012-01-20T21:46:23.738-08:00BRIEF OPEN LETTER TO CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER<big><big><b>Conveniently omitted in Charles Krauthammer's<br />
typically skewed version of event at his most recent as of Jan 20th column<big><br />
</big></b></big><b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-legitimize-obamas-reelection-rhetoric/2012/01/19/gIQA5pB5BQ_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-legitimize-obamas-reelection-rhetoric/2012/01/19/gIQA5pB5BQ_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions</a></b></big><br />
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is Bush and the Fed's bailing out the suprfat cats when they were</b></big></big><br />
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<big><b><span><big>bankrupt, and ought to have been nationalized for the American<br />
people to gain control of their financial rate instead of it<br />
being left at the mercy of a bunch of utterly selfish riverboat gamblers.<br />
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</big><big>From Enron bankruptcy in the year 200 to the Bush bankruptcy
of America in 2008. And Obama differs only very slightly in being what<br />
used to be called a moderate Republican, and solely in domestic policy.<br />
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The time is not far off when the disaffection, albeit<br />
ignorant, of the Tea Partiers and the Occuppy Movement<br />
will coalesce and you will have a genuine Amurrican<br />
socialist movement. All that this fortunate eventuality needs<br />
is the spark that will meld and that spark will be a bit of liberation
theology so as to infuse evangelical vigor and selflessness, into that
great moshpit that is known as Los Estados Unidos Norte , and even the
world will not be ever the same. And you heard it here first at: </big></span></b></big><big><big><b><big><span style="color: #000099;"><big><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:letters@charleskrauthammer.com" moz-do-not-send="true"></a></big><br />
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based on fraudulently manufactured acts of Polish<br />
aggression against Germany, Admiral Canaris [see link<br />
below] is said to have blanched and pronounced:<br />
"This is the end." More properly he might have<br />
reached this rightful conclusion less instantaneously,<br />
and have said: "This is the beginning of the end,"<br />
as bankrupter G.W.Bush's equally criminal invasion of Iraq, based as it was on even less convincing manufactured evidence, will mark the beginning of the of U.S. hegemony.</span></big></b></div>
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The Bush Presidency, which started with the bankruptcy<br />
of one of his major supporters, the Enron Company,<br />
ended, for all intents and purposes, with the bankruptcy of the U.S. IN 2008, papered over with trillions of dollars from the Fed to the US Banking Industry. No prosecution by the once head of the Harvard Law Review!<br />
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Compared to the dissension and the conspiracies within<br />
the conservative elements of the German military under Hitler the dissent within the American military has been paltry.</span></big></b></div>
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I suspect that those interested in compounding the Iraq invasion with an attack on Iran, will have their way, with unforeseeable consequences, none of the pleasant.</span><br style="background-color: #cccccc;" />
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</big></b><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident</a></b><pre cols="72"></pre>
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<b>The </b><b>Gleiwitz incident was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="False
flag">staged attack</a> by Nazi forces posing as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poles" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Poles">Poles</a> on 31 August 1939, against
the German <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_station" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Radio
station">radio station</a> <i>Sender Gleiwitz</i> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Gleiwitz">Gleiwitz</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Silesia" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Upper
Silesia">Upper Silesia</a>, Germany (since
1945: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliwice" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Gliwice">Gliwice</a>, Poland) on the eve of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Theatre_of_World_War_II" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="European Theatre of World War II">World
War II in Europe</a>.</b></div>
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<b>This provocation was the
best-known of several actions in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Himmler" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Operation Himmler">Operation
Himmler</a>, a series of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_operations" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Special operations">unconventional
operations</a> undertaken
by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Schutzstaffel">SS</a>in order to
serve specific propaganda goals of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Nazi
Germany">Nazi Germany</a> at the outbreak of the
war. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression
against Germany in order to justify the subsequent <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland_%281939%29" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Invasion of Poland (1939)">invasion of Poland</a>.</b></div>
<pre cols="72"><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#Events_at_Gleiwitz" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#Events_at_Gleiwitz</a></b>
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<b>Events at Gleiwitz</b></h2>
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<b>Much of what is known about
the Gleiwitz incident comes from the sworn affidavit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Naujocks" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Alfred Naujocks">Alfred Naujocks</a> at the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Nuremberg Trials">Nuremberg
Trials</a>. In his testimony, he states that he organized the
incident under orders from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Reinhard Heydrich">Reinhard
Heydrich</a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_M%C3%BCller_%28Gestapo%29" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)">Heinrich
Müller</a>, the chief of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a>.<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-Nuremberg-0" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[1]</a></sup></b></div>
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<b>On the night of 31 August
1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish
uniforms and led by Naujocks,<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-Ailsby-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup> seized the Gleiwitz
station and broadcast a short <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Anti-German sentiment">anti-German</a> message in Polish (sources
vary on the content of the message). The Germans' goal was to make
the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German
Polish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saboteur" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Saboteur">saboteurs</a>.<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-Ailsby-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-WirtzGordon-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[3]</a></sup></b></div>
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<b>To make the attack seem
more convincing, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a
German <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesians" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Silesians">Silesian</a> known for sympathizing
with the Poles, who had been arrested the previous day by the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a></i>. Honiok was dressed
to look like a saboteur; then killed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Lethal injection">lethal
injection</a>, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene,
so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the
station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the
attack to the police and press.<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-Franciszek_Honiok-3" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[4]</a></sup></b></div>
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<b>In addition to Honiok,
several other prisoners from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" target="_blank" title="Dachau concentration camp">Dachau
concentration camp</a><sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-Ailsby-1" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[2]</a></sup> were kept available for
this purpose.<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-WirtzGordon-2" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[3]</a></sup> The Germans referred to
them by the code phrase "<i>Konserve</i>" ("canned goods"). For
this reason, some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as
"Operation Canned Goods."<sup style="line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident#cite_note-Lightbody-4" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank">[5]</a></sup></b></div>
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<b><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Canaris</a></b>
<b><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Schrader" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Schrader</a></b> <b><br /></b></div>
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