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Israel threatens world peace. Iran threatens no one. Israel reigns terror regionally and beyond. Iran peacefully coexists with neighbors. Israel commits crimes of war and against humanity. Iran hasn't attacked another country in over two centuries. Israel marginalizes, discriminates against, and persecutes non-Jews. Iran grants non-Muslims equal rights.
Israel is a nuclear menace. Iran's program is entirely peaceful. Even Mossad, US intelligence, and IAEA inspectors agree. Israel won't let anyone examine its nuclear facilities for good reason.
It's got plenty to hide. It's secret long ago became open. Grass discussed what Vanunu exposed decades earlier. The difference is Israel can't imprison him or destroy his distinction as Germany's most celebrated author and 1999 Literature Nobel laureate.
Nonetheless, Haaretz writer Anshel Pfeffer headlined, "The moral blindness of Gunter Grass," saying:
His polemic "baseless(ly alleges) that Israel is threatening to annihilate the entire Iranian people.""(T)here is something so obviously wrong about him saying this, something so morally blind that all arguments are superfluous."
Fact check
Israel, not Grass, threatens war on Iran. If nuclear weapons are used, millions of lives are risked. Saying so is important, not baseless. He deserves praise, not condemnation.
Pfeffer also assailed his SS past. Like Netanyahu and others, hitting below the belt substitutes for confronting hard facts honestly and accepting what needs to be said. Not Netanyahu. Not Pfeffer. Not many other truth- ducking scoundrels. That's moral blindness and cowardice.
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