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In reply to the discussion: Israel bars German author over poem critical of its nuclear arsenal [View all]reorg
(3,317 posts)63. You know nothing about Günter Grass
To label him anti-semitic is on the same level as calling Obama a muslim extremist.
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yes Günter Glass did serve in an SS Panzer unit in 1944 when he was 17 didn't he?
azurnoir
Apr 2012
#8
So are all IDF members lifelong Irgun terrorists by your asinine and simple logic?
Robeysays
Apr 2012
#12
If someone was in Irgun and seems to advocate for Irgun positions decades later.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#25
Doesnt matter. In the end its their country and they can say who can enter it and who cant just like
cstanleytech
Apr 2012
#52
You just accused me of promoting something unspeakable, because I disagreed with you about a poem.
Ken Burch
Apr 2012
#77
Is this why so many good authors were repeatedly blocked from publication in the US?
Trillo
Apr 2012
#4
Then we should Bar all Israelis who severed in the IDF for there life long Irgun Affiliation.
Robeysays
Apr 2012
#13
It's frustrating to me that there seems to be no distinction in the minds of some
XemaSab
Apr 2012
#21
This guy was Waffen SS. Ideological apples rarely fall far from their ideological roots.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#27
Hitler youth, volunteered for service, holds anti-semitic beliefs decades later.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#54
No I'm saying it is harder to prove as objective fact than membership in an organization.
Kurska
Apr 2012
#67
Israel’s policy endangers world peace’ — Jakob Augstein and Gideon Levy have Gunter Grass’s back
JohnyCanuck
Apr 2012
#32
If you're threatened by a poem, you are clearly and unequivocally WRONG. End of story.
saras
Apr 2012
#33