How far has the apple fallen from the tree! In his latest piece of drivel Avarahm Burg once again shows just how far from ones roots one can get. I am of course speaking about his father of blessed memory, former National Religious Party leader and Knesset member Rabbi Dr. Yosef Burg.
Dr. Burg was first and foremost a religious Zionist. He was a man who saw Eretz Yisroel for what it truly was… an inheritance promised by God to our forefathers. I’m sure Dr. Burg’s son, received an education from his father which included this principle. But Avraham has parted company with his father. Big time!
He joined the labor party, at a time when it was still the dominant party in Israel. And he rose through the ranks quite quickly. He had remained religious and never hid that fact from the media.
I remember being somewhat impressed with his independent kind of thinking. He remained religious and at the same time embraced the ideals of his socialist leaning political party. While those ideals are anathema to me, I still admired his independence. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. Here was a Frum Jew bucking the trend and doing his own thing.
I also remember thinking that if he continues to rise through the ranks of his party Israel could end up with a religious prime minister. He may have had some very leftist political views but having a Frum prime minister would have been a very interesting phenomenon. Although his politics were far from mainstream religious in any sense of the word.
Of course that never happened. He did become speaker of the Kenesset but that is about as high as he ever rose. Eventually other party members surpassed him for labor party leadership and his influence waned. And to that I say. “Thank God”. Today, as I understand it, he no longer even lives in Israel.
Avraham Burg as it turns out is a complete fraud and an opportunist. He uses his name recognition to make headlines. He is about his own self aggrandizement. And he will say just about anything to gain attention for himself.
Not only is he no longer a Zionist if he ever truly was, he is instead an outright Israel basher. He bashes the State of Israel every chance he gets. What a disappointment he would have been to his father! Here is an example of his ‘brilliance’.
Instead of fighting Islam and Islamism, his new god is pluralism and it begins with embracing our Muslim ‘brothers’. Does he really think we ca all just ‘get along’? Does he really believe that if we only embrace them all of our troubles will be over?
Here is more of what he says.
‘The future of the world to a large extent depends on the West's ability to be fertilized and impregnated with the new Islam; to include Muslims, instead of rejecting them as they did us; and then together to give birth to a new world discourse.’
How lovely. Of course in an ideal world it would be great. Let bygones be bygones. Who wouldn’t cherish the ideals of getting along peacefully with our Muslim ‘brothers’ Let’s shake hands and be friends. Let’s forget all the suicide bombs. Let’s ignore all the wars Israel fought all the blood spilled. Let’s ignore 9/11.
That was in fact the dream of the earliest Zionist pioneers… to live in peace and harmony with their Muslim neighbors.
But if they have been consistent about anything, it is their rejection of ‘getting along’. There has in recent years been some lip service being paid to it, but Islam still hates Jews and western values us as much as they ever did. We are a theological impediment to them.
The real Islam is that of Hamas and Hezbolla. Islam’s unfettered ideology is espoused without any filters by the Ahmadinejad’s and the Nasrallahs. It is preached by the religious fanatics to young Muslims in Madroses all over the world.
Now I will grant that the majority of Muslim though believing in these doctrines would just as soon get on with their lives and make some sort of peace. But they do not control things. It is the zealots who are in control.
Avaraham Burg’s new world order is at best a naïve one and at worsts a cynical way to get media attention.
Does he really think we will win over Muslims by telling Muslims that we were victims once too? He doesn’t think they know about the holocaust… and that their educators deny it?
Has he not been paying attention to the Arab media. Is he not aware that one of the most popular books selling in Arab countries is the anti Semitic ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Doesn’t he realize that most Arabs think 9/11 was a Mossad plot? Does he really believe that Western Christians can create a bridge on which Western Muslims and Christians can step as they go to meet each other? Has he never heard of Iraq? Or Iran?
It would be nice if the West could solve its problems with an embrace its Muslim citizens. It would be nice if we could cause them to ‘see themselves, their religion and their traditions in a new light - a light of openness, tolerance and religious pluralism.’ It would also be nice if Moshiach came.
He’s been around the block a few times. He knows what kind of world we live in. But what does he care about the truth as long as they spell his name right!
