Over the years, Avraham Burg (Jerusalem, 70 years old) has gone from being at the Summit of Israeli politics to feel totally away from the course of his nation. Something more than two decades after leaving his political career, the former president of the Parliament of Israel has signed this week along with dozens of personalities in his country a statement in which they claim to the world sanctions to Israel. The declaration denounces that the Jewish State “is contemplating the expulsion of millions of Palestinians from the Strip” and, therefore, requires measures against Israeli leaders until they implement a high permanent fire in the enclave.
Yosef Burg, his father, was Minister of the Government of Israel for decades since the first steps of the State and he was parliamentary for several years during the change of the century. But Burg has been showing his disenchantment with the path on which Israel progresses. In 2003, when Palestinian groups committed attacks in Israeli cities in the middle of the second Intifada, Burg caused a stir with an article in an Israeli newspaper: “After Israel has stopped importing Palestinian children, should not surprise that they return to hate and stop in our escapism centers.”
Burg’s identity collides with the reasoning of Israeli authorities, who are sometimes accused of mixing criticism of his actions with the anti -Semitic feeling. Burg carries the Kipá on his head and before presiding over the Parliament, he also headed the organization of world Zionism and the Jewish agency for the land of Israel, two entities that drive the promotion of Zionist ideas, migration to Israel and Jewish identity. Today, as he says in an interview with this newspaper by telephone this Friday, he wonders if his country “that now challenges the same international standards that made him born, has lost the right to exist.”
Ask. How was the statement to ask for sanctions against Israel?
Answer. There is no organization behind. We are a group of individuals. Sometimes we do some joint action, be it a request, an article or we are in manifestations.
