ISRAELI
POLITICAL INSANITY. THE SAMSON OPTION: Israeli Letter-poem to Grass: If We Go,
Everyone Goes
Global Research, April 22, 2012
Editor’s Note
We bring to the attention of
our readers the response of Israeli poet Itamar Yaoz-Kost to the message of
Nobel Laureate Guenter Grass, who warns the World of the dangers of a US
Israeli sponsored war on Iran.
“The Samson option” (“We Go Down,
Everyone Goes”) is not an abstract concept in Israeli politics. It has been
addressed by military strategists in both Israel and the US.
While Israel’s Interior Ministry has
banned Guenther Grass from entering Israel, the “We Go Down, Everything Goes”
hate rhetoric against humanity in its entirety, is accepted as a concept by Tel
Aviv policy makers.
Israel is a rogue state and a threat
to global security.
Is it not time to restore an element
of sanity in the so-called “international community”.
Michel Chossudovsky
Poet Itamar Yaoz-Kest, a Holocaust
survivor, penned a public “letter-poem” in reply to German Günter Grass’
attack.
Israeli poet Itamar Yaoz-Kest, a
Holocaust survivor, has penned a public “letter-poem” in reply to the “poem” in
which German Günter Grass accused Israel of
“endangering the already fragile world peace.”
The letter-poem was published on
journalist Ze’ev Galili’s blog, in Hebrew, under the name: “The Right to Exist:
a Poem-Letter to the German Author.” It addresses Grass, who has admitted to
being a member of the Waffen SS during World War II, by name.
The “letter-poem” starts thus:
Danger,
I want to be a danger,
I want to be a danger to the world,
so that after my destruction, not a
single blade of grass will remain on the face of the Earth,
or a single blade of grass for Gunther
Grass’s pipe,
upon the Earth where, since I was
born, I pose a danger to the world.
Because it is my right!
It is my right to live or die while
annihilating my annihilators, without riding again as a crying-boy in a
transport train,
Into the world-vacuum, while placing
my head in the lap of a mother who is disappearing into the fresh air of the
Land of Wotan,
and the urine tin darts
dark-yellow specks onto the walls of the cabin – like gunshots that spray
a yellowish-reddish liquid from
besides the train guards, and among them – maybe – the soldier G.G., also,
wearing a steel helmet.
Later in the poem, Yaoz-Kest issues
what appears to be a statement of intent along the lines of “the Samson
Option”:
And so, as the strong light of the
Land of Israel enters my home, I turn on the radio and cannot help listening to
the sermons of the ayatollahs of Iran and to the words of the respected Iranian
minister, who shows the map of the Land of Israel with his two hands, to say:
“It is so small… Within six or seven days it can be erased from the map”, or in
your language: “ausradieren”. And here I am listening to the sermons of the
imams in the mosques of the Land of Israel and the Arab lands as they declare
“ausradieren!”, but they are always referring to me and not to you, Gunther
Grass.
And yet, there is a right reserved
only to us Jews (if indeed any human on Earth has this right): to be destroyed
and to take the weary and sated world with us to the non-existence, along with
its wondrous libraries and heart-stirring tunes – just so, after we descend to
the grave, while the ground emits radioactive rays to all four winds.
Indeed – we have the right! It is
mine, too!
For it is the right of the Nation of
Israel to finally shut the gates to the world after it leaves this place (not
of its free will!), and we have the right to say, at the price of the 3,000
year old fear: “If you force us yet again to descend from the face of the Earth
to the depths of the Earth – let the Earth roll toward the Nothingness.”
The Samson Option – taking out
Israel’s enemies with it, possibly causing irreparable damage to the entire
world – has been floated by Israeli strategists including Ariel Sharon, as a
last-ditch option if Israel faces annihilation.
