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The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes | 
| Author: Avraham Burg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 0230607527
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.5318092
EAN: 9780230607521
ASIN: 0230607527
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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DIVPModern day Israel, and the Jewish community, is strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or the world around it. He shows that this is one of the causes for the growing nationalism and violence that are plaguing Israeli society and reverberating through Jewish communities worldwide. Burg uses his own family history--his parents were Holocaust survivors--to inform his innovative views on what the Jewish people need to do to move on and eventually live in peace with their Arab neighbors and feel comfortable in world at large. Thought-provoking, compelling, and original, this book is bound to spark a heated debate around the world. /P/DIV
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 The betrayer December 31, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Betrayal hurts. It especially hurts when the betraying actions come from one who was part of the family. br /In this book Abraham Burg a former Israeli member of partner indicts the people of Israel, and provides ammunition for Israel's enemies. He writes at length of his connection with his father and mother, tries to honor their memory by telling their story. But there is a sense that in some deep way he violates the trust of his own family tradition. br /The book is written in a somewhat confusing and pretentious way, and at times it was difficult for me to get a clear sense of just what Burg wanted to say. br /The major line is that the Jews should somehow stop being traumatized by the Holocaust. This is in a sense a patronizing and idiotic recommendation. Some might say it has a good intention as it wishes to make Israel more humane in relation to its neighbors, especially the Palestinian Arabs. But here Burg's distortions also are great as he does not give a fair assessment of the Israeli people,and their enemies. Despite his claiming otherwise the Israeli people seek peace, have made sacrifices for peace, long for peace. br /Burg too in his facile recommendation of Jews to overcome the trauma of the Holocaust also minimizes the existensial threats facing Israel today. Israel is after all threatened today by two fundamentalist Islamic entities on its borders, Hizbollah and Hamas. It is also threatened by an Iran whose President denies the fact that a Holocaust ever occurred, and is pushing his country towards nuclear weapons while at the same time saying that Israel will shortly no longer exist. br /Burg also makes it seem as if he is the persecuted good boy and all the society of Israel, wicked.br /If there is anything positive about this book it is again Burg's respectful relation to his own parents- though again I am not sure he has properly presented his father's views of the situation. br /This book is what Avraham Burg himself has become- a disgrace to the Jewish people.
 An Important Message December 28, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Burg's central thesis is that Israel has changed, and become like some of the nations it abhors - specifically through its constant abuse of Palestinians and increasing belief the Israelis are "God's people" (racism), all the while using the Holocaust as cover. Doing so continues to victimize current generations of Jews.br /br /"The Holocaust is Over" can be seen as a plea for Israelis to stop seeing themselves as victims. Hopefully it will also lead to American politicians ceasing their non-stop slathering over Israel.
The grand alibi for Israeli crimes is finally demolished December 13, 2008
15 out of 25 found this review helpful
During the 2008 US presidential campaign, candidates loudly professed that they would not allow Israelis to undergo "another Holocaust." This is the hysterical preoccupation of American politicians, first and foremost with the contretemps of the chosen seed and the possibility of their imminent annihilation; all other peoples, especially the Palestinians, are secondary in terms of a possible apocalyptic destiny. No matter how egregious the war crime Israelis perpetrate against Arab civilians (for example in Qana and Jenin), all is forgiven if the atrocity can be explained as a prophylactic against "another Holocaust." The famous Israeli Yad Vashem "Holocaust" Museum is within sight of the remains of the village of Deir Yassin, where Palestinian civilians were massacred by Judaic Irgun terrorists in April, 1948, for whom Elie Wiesel labored as a publicist. There is no marker commemorating the Israeli atrocity at Deir Yassin despite the fact that it is in the shadow of Yad Vashem. Wiesel, the "Holocaust" conscience-of-the world, is utterly silent about Deir Yassin. The Israelis have used the suffering of Judaic people during World War II (categorized under the recently minted "Holocaust" Newspeak) as a means of immunizing themselves against the slow-motion genocide they have perpetrated against the Palestinians. This book, "The Holocaust is Over" is a long overdue corrective by an unimpeachable source. Unfortunately, publicity for it is minimal, relative to the latest deluge of often risible and wildly exaggerated "Holocaust" movies. br /br /--Michael Hoffman, author of "Judaism Discovered" and co-author of "The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians."
The rare voice of dissent in Israel December 11, 2008
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book starts a debate among Israelis that should have taken place decades ago. It sheds an honest light on the situation Israel got itself stuck in through occupation, racism and the cruel subjection of the Palestinians; through the favoring of religious fanaticism over democracy, and through the use of the Holocaust as an excuse for many-many horrific crimes against humanity that are ultimately be self-defeating.
Avraham Burg Appeal December 10, 2008
12 out of 20 found this review helpful
The present book is a human appeal from Avraham Burg to the Israelis to stop using the Holocaust as a tool in order to cover their crimes against the Palestenians, simply because it is not ethical to produce new victims by using the victims of the Holocaust. Namely to avid using the Holocaust to make another Holocaust for the Palastenian, and to cause another Holocaust for the Israelis in the future. Also it is a message for the world to stop accepting the Israelis use of the Holocaust against the international low and human rights. Just read it please and you can decide then.
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