{"id":4607,"date":"2008-11-04T09:20:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T14:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4607"},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T14:20:30","slug":"donald-macintyre-avraham-burg-israels-new-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4607","title":{"rendered":"Donald Macintyre: Avraham Burg: Israel’s new prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avraham Burg was a pillar of the Israeli establishment but his new book is causing a sensation. It argues that his country is an “abused child” which has become a “violent parent”. And his solutions are radical, as he explains to Donald Macintyre<\/p>\n

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It was not until his last year as a Knesset member that he began to build a reputation as something of an enfant terrible in Israeli intellectual and political life. Photo by Quique Kierszenbaum<\/p><\/div>In shorts, T-shirt and cotton kippa, Avraham Burg is sitting in his sukka, the temporary booth that every observant Jewish family in Israel builds outside their home for the joyous religious holiday of Sukkot, and talking with some disdain about the holocaust “industry”.<\/p>\n

The sunlight is filtered through the roof of palm leaves, the decorative strings of apples, coloured balls and paper streamers almost motionless on this still October morning. Nearby the autumn desert flowers are blooming and a ladder up against a tree indicates that someone has recently been picking olives. Here in Nataf, the select, upper-middle-class community idyllically set in the Jerusalem Hills where Burg lives with his wife Yael, just 1,000 metres from the border with the West Bank, it’s momentarily hard to focus on the sombre subject matter of his latest, explosive book, one which by his own \u2013 if anything understated \u2013 account “singlehandedly shook the foundations of the Zionist establishment overnight”. <\/p>\n

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