Abraham Burg, a brave man... broke the silence

Whether we agree or disagree with Mr. Abraham Burg, the former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, we must admit that in recent years the man has begun to take positions that distinguish him from many of the leaders of the Israeli occupation state, who classify themselves as liberals or leftists in the Zionist camp. Recently, specifically on the third of this month, Burg wrote an article in the newspaper "Haaretz" in which he broke the silence. There is Jewish Nazism ruling in Israel, referring to the current Israeli government led by leaders who believe in the doctrine of the Jewish race and Jewish superiority, just like German Nazism.

According to Abraham Burg, Netanyahu leads a coalition of parties based on the same premise as the German Nazi Party, which glorified German nationalism as a supreme value that transcends all values and promoted the doctrine of the Aryan race and its superiority over other races, just as the leaders of the religious Zionist parties and a number of Likud leaders do with whom they share the leadership of the state.

In his article, Burg brought to mind those warnings issued by Yeshayahu Levovich in the 1980s, in which he warned of the presence of elites in Israel who adopted Nazi ideas based on the belief in Jewish racial superiority. He pointed out that the Israelis did not pay attention to those warnings at the time and treated them as coming from a person. He became delirious. The elites, which Levovich spoke about, were at that time a satanic plant in random planting beds, but they grew and developed over the years until they became a forest covering the coast, the mountains, and the valley in the occupying state and in the West Bank settlements with their settlement outposts and pastoral farms, in which an orgy of thugs, “hilltop youth,” and “Paying the price” and a wide audience that gathers around religious Zionism, directed and led by Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, and their crazy obsession with the myths of the past is fueled by rabbis who use religious schools in the West Bank settlements as rehabilitation centers for practicing various forms of violence and terrorism against Palestinian citizens in their towns and villages throughout the Palestinian countryside.

To learn more about the author of those early warnings, Levovich, this man was born in Riga, a part of the Russian Empire (currently Latvia), to a religious Zionist family. He studied chemistry and philosophy at the University of Berlin in Germany and continued his studies in Basel in Switzerland. He immigrated to Palestine in 1934 and remotely testified the crimes of German Nazism and its brutal practices, the most horrific of which was the “Holocaust,” which the Jews themselves were subjected to at the hands of the Nazi monster, was a harsh critic of Israeli society.

Abraham Burg was not the only one who admired Yeshayahu Levovich. Rather, some of them, in light of his warnings, called him the Prophet Yeshayahu (Levovich), as did the well-known Israeli journalist Ben Caspit in an article he published in the Israeli “Maariv” on April 6, 2016. Just as an analogy, there are many prophets in the heritage of classical Judaism. Samuel was also a hard-hearted prophet, perhaps the greatest of the prophets of “Israel.” He was the one who anointed Saul king over Israel without prior knowledge. Isaiah was also a prophet, but he put a distance between him and Samuel when he rebuked his people, saying: “When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you, and when you multiply.” "I do not hear you praying. Your hands are full of blood."

These days, there are many hands stained with blood, and many are thirsty for blood in Israel. Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are examples of imaginary, false, and condescending nationalism, in the jungle of a racist movement that claims racial superiority, and around them are leaders of grass-level stature, men and women. The first is not satisfied with giving priority to the freedom of movement in the streets of the West Bank for the settlers over the right to freedom of movement and life for the Palestinians, but he goes further in his Nazism and arms the settlers and calls on them to pull the trigger against rioters and stone-throwers. The second is not satisfied with calling for the separation of Arab women from Jews during... Giving birth in hospitals, but he also goes further than that by calling for the town of Hawara to be wiped out of existence, or in the best case, putting the Palestinians before three options: either to live as Gentiles deprived of their rights in his state extending from the river to the sea, or to immigrate abroad with all the facilities, or the occupation army will be settling accounts with them forcefully. His wife, Fruitl Smotrich, was more clear than him in endorsing the Nazi image when she said in an interview with Rafi Reshef on Israeli Channel 10 that she was not prepared to be born by an Arab midwife. She believes that the moment of birth is a pure, Jewish moment, to the point that there is no justification for it being desecrated by Arab hands.  .

But is this new in the thought and practice of the Zionist movement, and was Levovich’s prophecy an orphan prophecy? The answer to that is a clear no. Israel Shahak had previously warned in his book, which was published in its first edition in Arabic in 1994 and was titled (The Jewish Religion and Its Position toward Non-Jews), of the satanic character of the Zionist movement. In this interesting book, Shahak presents examples of similarity in thought and belief between a number of leaders of the Zionist movement in the 1930s and the leaders of Hitler's Nazism. They shared commonalities: the glorification of nationalism as a supreme value devoid of its human dimensions that transcends all values, and the glorification of ethnic affiliation and superiority. We are reminded here of one of the prominent leaders of the Zionist movement and the Jewish Agency and his positions on the rise of Nazism to power in Germany. The most shocking example in this area was when prominent leaders in the Zionist movement celebrated the victory of Nazism over liberalism, as they put it, as was the case of Dr. Joachim Prince, the Jewish rabbi, who rose through the ranks of the World Jewish Congress to become vice president. He was close to Golda Meir and became one of the leaders. Prominent members of the international Zionist movement. Dr. Joachim Prince fell in love with the Nazi-style hysteria of racial superiority and wrote a book in German entitled (We the Jews - Wir Juden) in which he flattered to the point of obsession the Nazi ideology, saying: What the German Revolution means for the German nation (Adolf Hitler’s revolution) will become clear in the end to those who made it and painted its image. Liberalism has lost its favor. Liberalism is the formula for political life that helped the integration of the Jews. This liberalism is now being defeated. Liberalism according to Joachim Prince, and this is the tip of the iceberg. That book by Joachim Prince is suitable these days as a material for education and training in religious Zionist schools, and it is also suitable for it to be a material for education and training in defending the nation-state law and in promoting what they call the coup against democracy and the judicial system in Israel.