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German author Grass likens Israeli travel ban to Stasi

By REUTERS

APRIL 11, 2012 21:52

BERLIN - Nobel Prize-winning German author Guenter Grass, embroiled in a war of words with Israel, has likened its decision to prevent him from entering the country to a similar ban once imposed on him by the leader of East Germany's dreaded Stasi secret police.

In a comment sent by Grass to be published in Thursday's edition of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, the author said Israel, former communist East Germany and Myanmar were the only countries to have imposed travel bans on him.

He said only Myanmar seemed to offer a glimmer of hope for change, referring to Israel as an "unchecked nuclear power" that viewed itself as immune to criticism.

Grass, 84, caused a storm earlier this month by publishing a poem in the Sueddeutsche in which he attacked Israel as a threat to world peace.

The poem was criticized in Germany as "anti-Semitic" and prompted Israel's Interior Minister Eli Yishai to declare Grass "persona non grata".

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