Günter Grass's Israel poem provokes outrage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/05/gunter-grass-israel-poem-iran

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/gedicht-zum-konflikt-zwischen-israel-u...

"Predictably, Iran warmly welcomed Grass's poem. Press TV, Iran's state-owned English-language satellite channel, hailed it as a literary sensation. "Never before in Germany's postwar history has a prominent intellectual attacked Israel in such a courageous way," it said. "Metaphorically speaking, the poet has launched a deadly lyrical strike against Israel."

And granted: I've broken my silence
because I'm sick of the West's hypocrisy;
and I hope too that many may be freed
from their silence, may demand
that those responsible for the open danger we face renounce the use of force,
may insist that the governments of
both Iran and Israel allow an international authority
free and open inspection of
the nuclear potential and capability of both.

Storm Continues After German Writer’s Poem Against Israel
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/world/europe/storm-continues-after-gun...

From Wikipedia:

April 4, 2012, Grass published a poem in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, entitled Was gesagt werden muss ("What must be said"), where he expressed concern about an Israeli military strike against Iran. The poem states: “Why do I only say now, aged and with my last ink: the atomic power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace?” His answer to this rhetorical question is that the "incomparable" crimes of Nazis against Jews, and the duty of Germans to avoid anti-Semitism, have kept him silent. But he is no longer willing to stay quiet: “I admit: I will be silent no longer, because I am sick of the hypocrisy of the West.”[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass

Gunter Grass's anti-Israel poem draws outrage
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gunter-grasss-anti-israel-poe...