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Time to attack
By Avraham Burg

The system of "sacred balance" is Israel's way of surviving and feeling normal. If something happens on the left, it immediately must be canceled out by an event on the right - and then everyone can relax. These equations create the illusion of sanity and save the sticky majority, which is searching for the warm and opinionless center, from having to relate to matters in a matter-of-fact way. It is from there, from the wide open spaces of a valueless and content-free consensus, that Israel's ruin will come - because if everything is balanced and canceled out, there is no need to take a position, or to do anything. It is therefore not surprising that Israel, with all its equations, cannot make decisions on matters of morality and state.

The latest equation bridges between draft-dodgers and the soldiers who refuse to evacuate homes in Hebron. On the face of it, we have draft-dodgers - the left-wing bleeding hearts from greater Tel Aviv - and evacuation refuseniks - nationalistic and idealistic, but "a little" too extreme, too patriotic and too religious. And we are in the middle: We live outside Tel Aviv, but not in Hebron; we want peace but are not prepared to pay the Arabs the price. Instead of being flooded with concern over the fanatics and rabbis who have penetrated the fabric of Israeli statehood like cancerous cells, we have created an equation. We were furious for two days, we condemned them - and we went on our merry way. Everything is balanced, thank God.

After the waves of demagoguery, spin and media opportunism have passed, it will become clear that this equation is extremely dangerous, because it releases us from dealing with this country's unruly elements. The more we ignore the cancer of rabbinical nationalism, the closer and more concrete the mortal danger is. The real equation is between the refuseniks of Hebron and their foundation in Torah - and Hamas, Hezbollah, Christian fundamentalists and their fanatic brethren.
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What is happening in Israel is part of a worldwide trend. U.S. President George W. Bush accepted with terrifying superficiality the worldview of Samuel Huntington, who stated that the past's wars over economic interests, nationalism and territory have made way for international cultural wars. Huntington claimed that a clash of civilizations is taking place before our eyes - Christianity versus Islamic zealotry.

This is a terrible statement, because it oversimplifies the world into two sides - we are all Bushes, and they are all Osama Bin Ladens. Thus, in one fell swoop, all the Muslim, democratic Turks; the hundreds of millions of Muslim, democratic Indians; the Arabs of Israel; the hundreds of thousands of new democrats in Palestine; and many others around the world have been pushed into the corner with the really bad guys. Meanwhile, many evil people have been rendered legitimate merely because they are Christians or Jews. The time has come for another worldview.

The real clash is between members of democratic civilizations and those of theocratic civilizations. The first group accepts everybody as sources of administrative authority undiscriminatorily; the others view God, not mortals, as their authority, and rely on his word, apostles and zealots. This schism cuts across Christianity and Islam and is also occuring here, in Judaism. Despite the sticky and vague "schmaltz" of "the unity of Israel," there is no escaping the question of whether there is - or should be - any kind of unity with these people. In my opinion, the answer is no - they are not my brethren, they are my enemies.

There is no theological difference between certain rabbis from Hebron, the former Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and the evangelical preacher hoping for Armageddon at the site of our Megiddo. Those who say that "God's law is first" are no different from one another, whether they wear a rabbi's skullcap, Hezbollah's turban or the cloak of a North American spiritual leader. They are all engaged in a cruel battle against me. They are the enemies of freedom and democracy, and are hostile to liberty, equality and the status of women.

In a world like this, we must form new coalitions. The division between "us" and "our enemies" cannot be based merely along national or familial lines, or in beliefs and genetics. The world is divided into a coalition of some Jews, some Christians and some Muslims, versus other members of their nations and religions. Democracy versus theology.

This is not a "gentle" argument, but rather war - the rabbi against the sovereign, the "Jewish" against the "democratic," halakha and sharia against civil law, the church against the state. They cannot live under the same roof, and they are currently fighting the most ancient and most modern war - religion versus state.

And in war, like in war: The legal standing of the inciting rabbi is the same as that of the inciting sheikh, because both are equally hostile. One wants to see me dead physically, and the other wants to see me dead democratically and morally. Since I oppose the death sentence in all cases, I cannot thus condemn my domestic enemies. But the army of the democratic state, as well as its systems of governance, must purify itself from all the enemies planted by theocracy. The "army of God" must not be permitted to gain control of the institutions of state power. The state must cut the lifeline of these subversive elements, and rescind the benefits it grants them. Democracy must stop apologizing and defending itself - the time has come for initiative and attack. Weak words and nebulous formulae will not help anything here. In the choice between them and us, I favor us - for democracy, and against all its enemies, both inside and out.
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  1.   NOT 1 SOURCE IN JUDAISM SANCTIFIES KILLING OF INNOCENTS-NOT 1 11:21  |  REAL RABBI 15/08/07
  2.   There are extremists and extremists... 11:36  |  Ronnie Wolman 15/08/07
  3.   #4Indra-THIS IS YOUR FUNNIEST REPONSE EVER!! 12:00  |  Gateway Terror 15/08/07
  4.   Who is superficial here? 12:05  |  Ehud 15/08/07
  5.   freemasons versus theocrats 12:06  |  Dronas 15/08/07
  6.   Bush and democracy?? 12:07  |  Erik 15/08/07
  7.   timt to attack 12:08  |  nihom 15/08/07
  8.   Fundamentalist Rabbis - a Strategic Threat 12:25  |  michael cohen 15/08/07
  9.   Hamas is right and the settlers are wrong 12:33  |  Fritz 15/08/07
  10.   Avraham Burg is spot on as usual 12:59  |  Palestinian in UK 15/08/07
  11.   SHAME ON HAARETZ FOR PUBLISHING BURG ANTISEMITIC RANTS! 13:02  |  martyrmaker 15/08/07
  12.   Ironic that only Palestinians & Israel Haters like the article. 13:09  |  Target Audience 15/08/07
  13.   Very good! 13:18  |  New Israeli 15/08/07
  14.   Truth is found where liberty abounds; where dogmatism, a dark age 13:22  |  Ivar 15/08/07
  15.   Burg is worse than Hamas 13:56  |  eddie 15/08/07
  16.   Very good article, I agree 100% 14:04  |  krystal 15/08/07
  17.   #15 Hannah 14:09  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  18.   Excellent! 14:12  |  Jakob 15/08/07
  19.   A voice in the wilderness 14:22  |  Josh Goldman 15/08/07
  20.   Bravo, Mr. Burg 14:29  |  Axel 15/08/07
  21.   SELF-HATING BURG IS GREATER ENEMY OF ISRAEL THAN HAMAS 14:29  |  Joel Stein 15/08/07
  22.   Ivar #18 14:32  |  Avi Yerushalmi 15/08/07
  23.   Real Rabbi, One Stream of Judaism Was That Sick 14:42  |  Bernie 15/08/07
  24.   To Eddie from London No. 19 14:49  |  Nate 15/08/07
  25.   BRAVO, Mr. Burg!! 14:57  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/08/07
  26.   Moral highground 14:58  |  Shlomo 15/08/07
  27.   Burg is right on the mark 15:06  |  Doron 15/08/07
  28.   #11 how is this antisemitic? 15:11  |  Michael 15/08/07
  29.   to eddie 15:22  |  Justin 15/08/07
  30.   All extremists are oblivious to reason. 15:24  |  Giles Martin 15/08/07
  31.   Too simplistic 15:32  |  Scrolls 15/08/07
  32.   where are they keeping the armanents ? 15:38  |  victor hardman 15/08/07
  33.   `unruly elements` like kadima refusal to resign 15:41  |  Joseph E . 15/08/07
  34.   Hamas targets and kills civilians, do Hebron Rabbis? 15:51  |  Richard 15/08/07
  35.   Fake poster alert 17 ! 15:57  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  36.   Burg 16:04  |  JK 15/08/07
  37.   Avraham Burg`s restating of the abyss... 16:19  |  sandra chitayat 15/08/07
  38.   Hello Justin # 29 16:20  |  eddie 15/08/07
  39.   Sullivan, today you are critical of Jews in Israel. Yesterday you 16:26  |  Reut Ami-Ram 15/08/07
  40.   Hello Justin # 29 16:28  |  eddie 15/08/07
  41.   Ronnie, Hamas` strength is derived from Israel 16:30  |  Ibrahim 15/08/07
  42.   moral lowground 16:32  |  eddie 15/08/07
  43.   moral lowground 16:36  |  eddie 15/08/07
  44.   Avraham Burg 16:43  |  Avi Yerushalmi 15/08/07
  45.   Dealing with Ahmadinejad makes little sense... 16:43  |  Elvis Megisto 15/08/07
  46.   Burg waves the banner of equivalence 16:46  |  peter 15/08/07
  47.   Actually... 16:48  |  Yosemite 15/08/07
  48.   Haaretz and Burg 16:51  |  Zvi 15/08/07
  49.   Real Rabbi #1 (2nd try) 16:52  |  guido 15/08/07
  50.   A new hymn for the new age 16:52  |  Mark Lincoln 15/08/07
  51.   "Attack" 16:55  |  Pinhos 15/08/07
  52.   Reut Ami-Ram 16:58  |  yaksul2000@yahoo.com 15/08/07
  53.   41Ibrahim,well said,as you may know israel has started uprooting 17:02  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  54.   real rabbi misses the point 17:10  |  Shelley 15/08/07
  55.   Moderation and the State 17:10  |  Dov 15/08/07
  56.   Reut, it is just a matter of time before Sullivan`s friend 17:10  |  Eran 15/08/07
  57.   What the illusion of central position does to one`s analysis 17:20  |  David Hoffman 15/08/07
  58.   Ha`aretz - laughably predictable 17:38  |  Barry 15/08/07
  59.   avraham burg 17:41  |  sal lefant 15/08/07
  60.   lakshmi, I am aware of Israeli policy towards Beit Jala 17:42  |  Ibrahim 15/08/07
  61.   Peter #46 18:00  |  Josh Goldman 15/08/07
  62.   Critical Consciousness 18:10  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  63.   We must change the political process which allows Burg to rise to 18:20  |  Chaim 15/08/07
  64.   Haaretz, why host burg on your pages? This man is ... 18:25  |  bat yam 15/08/07
  65.   Ibrahim 18:26  |  Danite 15/08/07
  66.   this time I agree with Avi 18:33  |  Jonathan Wortman 15/08/07
  67.   The turn to religion vs. the turn to fundamentalism 18:36  |  Tosefta 15/08/07
  68.   Democracy versus Theocracy 18:37  |  Kris 15/08/07
  69.   Oh Boy, Look Who`s Here 18:40  |  Tod Zuckerman 15/08/07
  70.   real rabbi NOT 1 SOURCE IN JUDAISM SANCTIFIES KILLING OF INNOCENT 18:50  |  Axel 15/08/07
  71.   Bravo 18:54  |  daniel weil 15/08/07
  72.   Hebron Rabbis no diferent from Hamas......., 18:56  |  tbora 15/08/07
  73.   real rabbi 1 19:03  |  realism 15/08/07
  74.   61tosefta & nutcases. 19:04  |  curious 15/08/07
  75.   Ibrahim on ghettoisation #60 19:07  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/08/07
  76.   Burg Needs Help :He Seems Unwell 19:08  |  Zik Lee 15/08/07
  77.   who is Avraham Burg 19:10  |  curioser& curioser 15/08/07
  78.   Mavet Lasmolanim! 19:11  |  Yos 15/08/07
  79.   2nd try,the Berg article is superficially clever,but the 19:17  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  80.   So, is that the answer 19:24  |  The Northern Wind 15/08/07
  81.   Be Impartial 19:24  |  emad matahin 15/08/07
  82.   time to attack 19:30  |  jaime 15/08/07
  83.   Danite. 19:39  |  Ibrahim 15/08/07
  84.   Time to attack 19:47  |  Martin List,M.D. 15/08/07
  85.   HAMAS&RABBIS like APPLES&ORANGES like EVIL&GOOD 19:48  |  Ying Yang 15/08/07
  86.   Burg has guts ! 19:55  |  David 15/08/07
  87.   A match made in heaven 19:56  |  Connie 15/08/07
  88.   60Ibrahim,I`m surprised that Palestinian Christians have not been 19:57  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  89.   REAL RABBI... 20:00  |  Real Imam 15/08/07
  90.   Zik Lee on the health of Burg #74 20:02  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/08/07
  91.   brave and clear sighted 20:03  |  Dan 15/08/07
  92.   jaime, a tired old trick from foxman & co. 20:05  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/08/07
  93.   Dr. List and his list of haters #82 20:18  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/08/07
  94.   MAJOR Differences, Judaism & Rabbis Give CHOICE. Islam Does Not ! 20:19  |  Linda Rivera 15/08/07
  95.   Avraham Burg for President!!! 20:52  |  Bernd Schulligen 15/08/07
  96.   Yaakov Sullivan, Israel`s plan will not fly. 20:53  |  Ibrahim 15/08/07
  97.   # Strip him of everything & anf expell him.... 20:53  |  Misha 15/08/07
  98.   Jonathan Wortman #64 21:01  |  Avi Yerushalmi 15/08/07
  99.   Heftsiba setlers 21:05  |  eddie 15/08/07
  100.   The G-D of the Bible Gives us our Freedom & HUMAN RIGHTS 21:13  |  Linda Rivera 15/08/07
  101.   Fake Alert (61)! 21:14  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  102.   Burg is no different the Nasrallah!!!!!!!!! 21:22  |  Ben Uziel 15/08/07
  103.   Burg DECEIVES. G-D`s Requirement for ALL Humanity is KINDNESS 21:24  |  Linda Rivera 15/08/07
  104.   Burg - there is no nice way to say this 21:28  |  Dr. David I. Gross 15/08/07
  105.   Jonathan #64 21:42  |  Avi Yerushalmi 15/08/07
  106.   Where is the Jewish battle of religious ideas? 21:43  |  Tosefta 15/08/07
  107.   # 53 lakshmi 21:54  |  tbora 15/08/07
  108.   reality show 22:07  |  scanadu 15/08/07
  109.   Dr. Gross on Burg`s Military Status #96 22:34  |  Yaakov Sullivan 15/08/07
  110.   linda rivera 95 22:47  |  realism 15/08/07
  111.   Where is the Jewish battle of religious ideas? 22:50  |  Tosefta 15/08/07
  112.   Avram Burg the occasional Israeli 22:53  |  Joseph 15/08/07
  113.   Scanadu #98 22:53  |  Avi Yerushalmi 15/08/07
  114.   Religion is the most dangerous weapon of all 23:00  |  Yossi Cronenberg 15/08/07
  115.   Fake Post (61)! 23:13  |  lakshmi 15/08/07
  116.   #99 realism 23:45  |  Joe 15/08/07
  117.   Rabbis, mollahs and preachers 23:51  |  adelphis 15/08/07
  118.   Avraham Burg still lives in Israel and still is a real patriote 23:52  |  CK 15/08/07
  119.   To Number 1 23:54  |  Blinky the Fish 15/08/07
  120.   Many things to think about. I just want to comment on one. 00:12  |  christoph 16/08/07
  121.   103cronenberg, spilled blood & religion. 00:16  |  curious 16/08/07
  122.   Politics & Religion badly mixed up in Israel - Burg 100% right 00:17  |  Ronen 16/08/07
  123.   #96 Dr. Gross - there is no nice way to say this 00:22  |  IDF 16/08/07
  124.   They are the enemies of freedom and democracy 00:39  |  dr danielito 16/08/07
  125.   #120, IDF 01:11  |  Silvienne 16/08/07
  126.   NO BETTER THAN HAMAS? 01:22  |  THE PALESTINIAN MYTH 16/08/07
  127.   120 IDF... 01:28  |  bat yam 16/08/07
  128.   105tbora,only in the East are there such wonderful sayings! 01:34  |  lakshmi 16/08/07
  129.   Burg 02:38  |  Ahmadinejad 16/08/07
  130.   Ibrahim G-d Willing 02:40  |  Danite 16/08/07
  131.   Ibrahim PS 02:42  |  Danite 16/08/07
  132.   Real Rabbi 02:59  |  Are you crazy! 16/08/07
  133.   LAKSHMI A Hesbala saying for you.Aug 6,07.Real Hamas v`s yourspin 03:47  |  PETERS SM 16/08/07
  134.   To #41 Ibrahim 04:07  |  sabashimon 16/08/07
  135.   joe 116 04:16  |  realism 16/08/07
  136.   #110 10,000 Jews Cruelly Ethnically Cleansed for not being Muslim 04:58  |  Linda Rivera 16/08/07
  137.   Yaakov Sullivan 05:10  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  138.   IDF 05:13  |  Dr David i. Gross 16/08/07
  139.   IDF - Small problem 05:31  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  140.   kris #68 - good question, but an old one 05:33  |  dana 16/08/07
  141.   Yaakov Sullivan - Checked his Bio 05:39  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  142.   Guido #49 - you mis-quoted 05:43  |  Moises 16/08/07
  143.   Silvienne - Next hebrew lesson 05:45  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  144.   Burg`s Military Status? Yaakov Sullivan 05:53  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  145.   Dr. David 05:57  |  Silvienne 16/08/07
  146.   Bernd #95 - you don`t know Burg 05:57  |  Moises 16/08/07
  147.   Great article 06:24  |  Omar 16/08/07
  148.   burg is anti zionist 08:02  |  Zzody 16/08/07
  149.   Vichy French go home!!!!!!!!!!! 08:31  |  Omri Giladi 16/08/07
  150.   Burg 08:39  |  Gabe 16/08/07
  151.   BurgerMeister 09:12  |  Ralph 16/08/07
  152.   "Judaism has a problem with the Halakha itself`: PLAIN IDIOCY 09:45  |  Shlomo T 16/08/07
  153.   Time to attack. 09:56  |  Steve the Pals. 16/08/07
  154.   133Peter SM Memri is funded by zionist sponsors,and the alleged 10:06  |  lakshmi 16/08/07
  155.   Hamas is not supported by an Army, an Airforce and the US of A 10:22  |  John 16/08/07
  156.   To Gateway in Tel Aviv 10:24  |  John 16/08/07
  157.   to martyrmaker #11 10:29  |  zeev 16/08/07
  158.   to Ronnie Wolman #2 10:41  |  zeev 16/08/07
  159.   Never an editor when you need one... 11:28  |  Richard Silverstein 16/08/07
  160.   zeev #157, 158 - your posts 13:04  |  dana 16/08/07
  161.   Avraham Burg, Let`s stay focused here.... 17:20  |  Dutch 16/08/07
  162.   #152 Shlomo T, Re: Avraham Burg scoring feathers... 17:43  |  Dutch 16/08/07
  163.   Silvienne _ NOPE 18:08  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  164.   IDF - MIA 18:19  |  Dr David I. Gross 16/08/07
  165.   Silvienne - an invitation 18:33  |  DR David I. Gross 16/08/07
  166.   ObviouslyOfended by this article 18:51  |  J.R 16/08/07
  167.   Rejoinder to a "Time to Attack" article 19:43  |  Gary M 16/08/07
  168.   "The pity of it all" 20:39  |  DJStahl 16/08/07
  169.   "we want peace, but are not prepared to pay the Arabs the price." 20:46  |  DJStahl 16/08/07
  170.   Monte Cassino 20:48  |  DJStahl 16/08/07
  171.   Victors in defensive wars never "pay the price for peace". 00:03  |  Chaim 17/08/07
  172.   education 00:37  |  jorge grosz 17/08/07
  173.   171 Chaim, The Jewish People will never own Palestine 02:38  |  Dutch 17/08/07
  174.   jorge grosz - Source please 03:34  |  Dr David I. Gross 17/08/07
  175.   Dr. David...I`ve been trying... 03:58  |  Silvienne 17/08/07
  176.   Dutch - true Jews will never own Palestine 05:17  |  Dr David I. Gross 17/08/07
  177.   Silvienne - avoid periods, comas etc 05:30  |  Dr David I Gross 17/08/07
  178.   # 1 but rabbi, why is it then... 11:19  |  eric 17/08/07
  179.   # 164 to dr. david gross (2nd try) 11:59  |  eric 17/08/07
  180.   time to attack 18:09  |  mohd amin 18/08/07
  181.   Dutch #173. I don`t want "Palestine". Such a nation never existed 19:32  |  Chaim 18/08/07
  182.   Eric - WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INFORMATION 21:46  |  Dr. David I. Gross 19/08/07
  183.   Eric continued 21:51  |  Dr David I. Gross 19/08/07
  184.   IDIOTIC BUT BALANCED 11:04  |  leo solomon 22/08/07
  185.   Time to attack 18:03  |  D Zwerdling 22/08/07
  186.   I am surprised 10:27  |  igal azuelos 23/08/07
  187.   Josh Goldman #19- Axel @ 20 23:02  |  kameel 23/08/07
  188.   tosefta #106 09:06  |  volov 28/08/07
  189.   More in answer to Tosefta #111 09:26  |  volov 28/08/07
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