Avrum Berg is one of the leaders of the “left” wing of the Labor party. He has aspirations to be the Prime Minister of Israel someday. This article, written by him, is unusually blunt for a Labor party politician.
“It turns out that the 2,000-year struggle for Jewish survival comes down to a state of settlements, run by an amoral clique of corrupt lawbreakers who are deaf both to their citizens and to their enemies. A state lacking justice cannot survive. More and more Israelis are coming to understand this as they ask their children where they expect to live in 25 years. Children who are honest admit, to their parents’ shock, that they do not know. The countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun.”
Of course Burg has the usual contortionist phraseology about Israel remaining a Jewish and democratic state, if only it ends the occupation. I’ve already discussed the flaws in this mode of thinking. But Burg, unlike me and other Israeli leftists, wants to be the Prime Minister of the Jewish state. So he can’t allow himself to carry his arguments to their logical conclusions.