I'm no fan of Günter Grass, after his recent poem about Iran and Israel and nuclear weapons, but I think this is ridiculous - Israel Interior Minister Yishai declares Grass persona non grata.
For heaven's sake, he wrote a poem, he didn't launch a missile at
Israel. I think it would actually be good for him to visit here and talk
to some ordinary Israelis about their fears - he might come to have a
better understanding of why some support an Israeli attack on Iranian
nuclear installations.
I do not think that Israel should
attack Iran, because of the potentially terrible effects on Israeli and
Iranian civilians if a full-scale war breaks out. I believe that there
should be secret talks between Israel and Iran to
address the threats that each utters towards the other in public, just
as there were secret talks between the US and the USSR during the cold
war. There should be a secret method of communication to prevent the
verbal threats from turning into actual war - something that is not in
the interest of either nation.
I'm now actually reading his wretched, ridiculous poem, and my next post will be my attempt at a fisking of it.
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