[h=2]Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israeli officials in a vitriolic denunciation of Günter Grass, accusing the German novelist of anti-semitism after he wrote a poem attacking the Jewish state's nuclear programme.[/h] The Israeli prime minister accused Grass of "shameful moral equivalence" after the Nobel laureate, who is 84, alleged that Israel, with its significant but undeclared nuclear arsenal, posed a greater threat to world peace than Iran.
While expressing his solidarity with
Israel, he suggested that it could annihilate the Iranian people and criticised Germany for providing Mr Netanyahu's government with submarines capable of delivering nuclear weapons.
The poem, published in the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, called on both Iran and Israel to open up their nuclear programmes to nuclear inspection.
