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THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER; WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHESCopyright © Avraham Burg, 2008.English language translation © Israel Amrani, 2008All rights reserved.First published in Hebrew in 2007 byMiskal-Yehidoth Ahronoth Books andChemed Books under the title Victory Over Hitler.First published in English in 2008 byPALGRAVE MACMILLAN®in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC,175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of theworld, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan PublishersLimited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills,Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companiesand has companies and representatives throughout the world.Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States,the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.ISBN-13: 978–0–230–60752–1ISBN-10: 0–230–60752–7Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataBurg, Avraham.
[Le-natseah et Hitler. English]The Holocaust is over; we must rise from its ashes / Avraham Burg.p. cm.ISBN0–230–60752–71. Burg, Avraham. 2. Political activists—Israel—Biography.3. Jews—Identity. I. Title.DS126.6.B87A3 2007b940.53 18092—dc22 2008012577A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.First edition: November 200810 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Printed in the United States of America.
Page 5: THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER; WE MUSTRISE
Page 10 and 11: In loving memory of my late parents
Page 12 and 13: Notes 243Index 247
Page 14 and 15: none of this could have happened.An
Page 16 and 17: word “former” is attached to yo
Page 18 and 19: This is how I explain the fierce pu
Page 20 and 21: eternal renewal of the world. But n
Page 22 and 23: CHAPTER 1
Page 24 and 25: I WAS BORN IN JANUARY 1955 IN GERMA
Page 26 and 27: When I finished writing my first bo
Page 28 and 29: I had heard her say that more than
Page 30 and 31: of my late father. We traveled far
Page 32 and 33: CHAPTER 2THE HOLOCAUST, EVER-PRESEN
Page 34 and 35: youngest son, Noam, did not join th
Page 36 and 37: Bank; New Age and Buddhist experime
Page 40 and 41: WHERE TO BEGIN? HOW DO YOU START CL
Page 42 and 43: ight, and Eban, if the 1967 boundar
Page 46 and 47: MY NEIGHBOR RAMI’S PARENTS CAME F
Page 48 and 49: When he woke up, he continued the c
Page 50 and 51: power. The local leadership of Ben
Page 52 and 53: How could it be that everything “
Page 54 and 55: As the Zionist movement aspired to
Page 56 and 57: everything changed dramatically and
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“Masada will not fall again” be
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So, three traumatized communities c
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CHAPTER 5
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WHAT COLOR WAS THE HOLOCAUST? PROBA
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seemed to side with me and my frien
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into ploughshares and wait patientl
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When my initial courtship of Yael c
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only during the long incubation per
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liked to compare the Palestinian Na
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Fanon is an expert witness worth li
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prevention.” How targeted could i
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themselves to speak words that shou
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followed the war? If not, how did h
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war, therefore they should not know
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CHAPTER 6LESSONS FROM THE HOLOCAUST
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“nationhood,” including its int
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in anger over the Dreyfus Affair, b
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1943, upon hearing of the Warsaw gh
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is compared to the Shoah, dwarfed b
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ad fortune, to express anger, to re
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e the cause of constant political f
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use the refugee problem to denounce
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Almost everywhere the Shoah serves
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with the moral parity among the chi
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CHAPTER 7
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THE HIGH POINT OF MY SEVENTH GRADE
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at least, before the Warsaw ghetto
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than a million Jews who had walked
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ebels and the disciples of the yout
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exterminated. A group of Jewish you
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grenade. Natan Rapoport, the sculpt
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we will not respond. We will sacrif
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against Us.” It is self-evident,
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of now we got lost. We need to retu
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CHAPTER 8
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BECAUSE OF ADOLF EICHMANN, I CAN’
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discussion about garbage technology
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gap between my father’s world and
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independent Jewish Commonwealth, th
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Eichmann harmony at the right pitch
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the victors at Nuremberg presented,
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the highest order. Without people l
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The landlady did not lie, and never
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of whom only one was a non-Jew, a g
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The Grunwald trial had become the K
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Canaanite left, and the yearling of
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to shape a new Israeli generation t
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trial . . . he would use expression
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light to humanity. But they continu
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suspended daily, and not just to ev
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minister who came from “there,”
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CHAPTER 9
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“WHO REMEMBERS THE ARMENIAN HOLOC
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. . . an ideologue with firm belief
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Today we are armed to the teeth, be
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and Romanians. We would have shut o
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It turned out that the Dalai Lama,
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War II, an estimated half a million
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An empire without colonies launched
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So familiar and yet so far removed
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was the first governor of southwest
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mention other states, the Jewish wo
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square and deserted the universal h
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peoples’ holocausts. In a world i
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we raise our guests and force-feed
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CHAPTER 10
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JUDAISM IS A CIVILIZATION THAT IS T
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the Jewish Pantheon, namely in the
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dogma are the most dangerously viol
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His words express no condolences an
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most meaningful clash to take place
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Korah’s racism lacks the mechanis
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aka HaRambam. All of them belong to
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lecture, a professor stood up.“I
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The revolution that did not happen
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the deceitful war in Lebanon, for t
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and not in Le Monde, in French? His
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a new prayer book, a Siddur, in whi
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CHAPTER 11MAKE GOD SMILE AGAIN
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Does it really matter who is guilty
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Divine intervention did not come to
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enemy-brethren? My Shoah question i
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wept, and kept watch; but when the
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acceptance of those who were discri
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and impatient beliefs win over many
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Chinese tyranny.The sum total point
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—Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Sigmund
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and outlooks. It was not just a dif
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CHAPTER 12
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HOW MANY TIMES SHOULD A MAN DIE? H
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Israelis made a motion. So I starte
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innovation that included my sister
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heard this melody at any other home
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nations that do not know you and on
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I never made secret of my opinion t
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admissible. I am sorry, but this do
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prime minister with Germany’s pre
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only synagogue where the cantor Mei
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3. An official press release by Net
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6. Yehuda Elkana, “In Defense of
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INDEXAbraham, 107, 158, 178, 184, 2
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British Mandate of Palestine, 99-10
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faith, 206-9, 211, 213, 240Finkielk
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198, 203-16, 226, 231-3, 239; color
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Jonas, Hans, 205-6Jordan, 67, 82-3,
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Namibia, 161-5, 174Napoleon III, 52
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Rwanda, 86, 144, 151-2, 155, 158, 1
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Ukraine, 29, 32, 36, 74United Natio
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