PM Netanyahu’s Remarks Regarding Gunter Grass

(Communicated by the Prime Minister’s Media Adviser)

Following are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks regarding Gunter
Grass:

“Gunter Grass's shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran, a regime
that denies the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel, says little
about Israel and much about Mr. Grass.

It is Iran, not Israel, that is a threat to the peace and security of the
world.

It is Iran, not Israel, that threatens other states with annihilation.

It is Iran, not Israel, that supports terror organizations that fire rockets
on innocent civilians.

It is Iran, not Israel, that is supporting the Syrian regime's massacre of
its own people.

It is Iran, not Israel, that stones women, hangs gays and brutally represses
tens of millions of its own citizens.

For six decades, Mr. Grass hid the fact that he had been a member of the
Waffen SS. So for him to cast the one and only Jewish state as the greatest
threat to world peace and to oppose giving Israel the means to defend itself
is perhaps not surprising.

But decent people everywhere should strongly condemn these ignorant and
reprehensible statements.”