Misgivings About the ‘LA Times’ Burg Piece

by on November 17, 2008 2
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On reflection, I find it lamentable that the LA Times piece by Avraham Burg, which I welcomed last night, and still do, is the Exalted Burg way up there circling on his thermals. It is all about the Shoah in Israeli life. It does not include his more pointed message about the effects of the Holocaust on American Jewish life, about the Israel lobby, about Jewish power in American society, about the neocons, about Israel's savage treatment of Palestinians, and so forth. I feel that the piece reflects some discomfort with Burg's message in the American media. Let's have this out.

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  1. anon says:
    November 17, 2008 at 11:22 am

    The ghetto Jew mentality will live on through infinity. Redacted passages in the Talmud will survive any Freedom Of Information Act.

    How does one answer truthfully historical "anti-semitism?"
    How many German Jews felt exactly like HItler, when as a youth of
    age 19 he entered Vienna, and was overwhelmed by the Polish Jews
    and their antics daily on the streets?

    There is a lesson from a small town in Iowa, home of German-American

    Lutherans and Orthodox Jews.

    Kosher means separation of all things edible into clean and unclean. Pure, and not.

    It's a lesson of means and ends. Of inclusive versus exclusive.

  2. cogit8 says:
    November 18, 2008 at 3:29 am

    Burg must have been forced to remove his more inflamatory (read 'truthful') ideas, due to the sensitivity of American ears. One more reason to read Ha'aretz, Ma'ariv and the Jerusalem Post.

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