Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews
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Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews
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Part memoir, part reckoning, part argument for a different future, Peace Is the Only Final Solution for Jews asks whether Israel can survive without an external enemy and refuses to let the listener look away from the answer. Avrum Burg, a former Speaker of the Knesset raised in the shadow of the Hebron massacre and the Holocaust, traces how Israel's founding trauma hardened, over decades, into a permanent and self-justifying machinery of fear. Weaving personal history with classical Jewish thought and firsthand political experience, Burg builds a case that is at once intimate and unflinching: that the mechanisms meant to guarantee Jewish survival (the army, collective memory, the state itself) have instead become obstacles standing in its way.
Burg writes with equal fluency about a childhood behind barbed wire, a mother who never stopped mourning Hebron, and the Talmudic arguments that once made Jewish life a practice of doubt rather than certainty. From there the book moves into serious historical and political territory: the politics of Holocaust memory, the machinery of occupation, to October 2023's grief, the complicity of the wider world, before arriving, finally, at a concrete, rights-based proposal for what might come next, offered not as wishful thinking but as the logical destination of everything argued before it.
Accessible enough for the general listener who wants a human way into a difficult subject, yet substantive enough for those already steeped in the region's history and politics, this is ultimately a book about whether a nation defined by fear can ever choose something else instead.
©2026 Avraham Burg; Foreword copyright © 2026 by Tucker Carlson (P)2026 Skyhorse AudioCommentaires
“There is no one like Avrum Burg. No one who understands Israel and Judaism as intimately, from the inside—and yet has been willing to exile himself from the halls of power by speaking honestly about Israel’s crimes and the corruption of our religious tradition. This book is like Avrum: warm, humane, fearless, and Jewish to its core.”—Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
“In recent years, an avalanche of books has invoked the Jewish diasporic tradition to move beyond Zionism. Avrum Burg—former Speaker of the Knesset and President of the Jewish Agency—offers something more original: the first sustained attempt to answer the deep-seated crisis of Israeli Jews through that very tradition. Ever since The Holocaust Is Over, in which he warned that the abuse of Holocaust memory would hand Hitler a posthumous victory over Judaism, Burg has established himself as one of Israel's clearest moral voices. In this remarkable new book, he brings that intellectual project to its culmination, recovering the diasporic Jewish inheritance that Zionism suppressed after the Holocaust in order to free Zionist imagination from captivity in a ghetto of fear and violence.”—Omri Boehm, associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and author of Radical Universalism
“As humanity plunges into barbarism, governed with impunity by brute force, violence, and technofascism . . . Avrum Burg reminds us that another democratic vision exists. We can demand the enforcement of hard-won human rights treaties, universal application of international law rooted in the sanctity of every life, and much more. The choices we make now will shape the world we leave to our children. Either we accept forever wars, genocide, and ethnic cleansing, or we forge a different future, grounded in freedom, accountability, and equal human dignity and rights for all.”—Rula Jebreal, foreign policy analyst, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter
