German poet declared unwelcome in Israel

[Phil]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/08/world/...oet/index.html

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel declared a German poet persona non grata Sunday in an unusual move that follows a wave of fury over a controversial poem.

Published in the German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung on Wednesday under the title "What needs to be said," the poem by Gunter Grass accused Israel of planning a preemptive strike against Iran in order to "extinguish the Iranian people." It said Israel's "atomic power endangers" world peace.

The poem also criticized the German government for supplying Israel with a submarine capable of sending destructive warheads "where the existence of a single nuclear bomb is unproven."

The 84-year-old Grass, who won a Nobel Prize in literature in 1999, is now unwelcome in Israel, the government announced.

[heavenlyboy34]

Interesting.

[Danke]

Good god. OK, why was Phil banned?

[RonRules]

Good god. OK, why was Phil banned?

Phil was Gunter.

[moderate libertarian]

Gunter Grass: In banning me, Israel's Interior Minister resembles German Stasi chief

Literature Nobel laureate says in reaction piece published by Sueddeutsche Zeitung that he has previously only been barred from entering a nation by then Communist-ruled East Germany and the military junta in Myanmar.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomac...chief-1.423850

[Danke]

Now two down...