Avraham Burg
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 23 Mar
Avraham Burg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
I'll give you two examples.
The rhetoric of Israel since 1948 is a rhetoric of survival, of existential threat, of permanent imminent war.
Out of nowhere came President Saadat to Israel.
I remember myself as a young soldier at 73 war at the other side of the Suez Canal in a foxhole in the desert.
In the middle of the night, like a frightened 18 years old boy, and I was listening to the then iPhone transistor.
Do you remember the transistor with the rusty voice?
Oh, yeah.
And I heard President Sadat in the middle of the night say, I'm ready to sacrifice a million and a half Egyptian soldiers in order to redeem the Sinai Peninsula.
And I said, holy, holy God.
Million and a half Egyptian soldiers against me, Avraham Bug, a Jew boy from Jerusalem?
I was frightened to death.
And then four years later, he came to Jerusalem, and I'm running.
Now I'm a released paratrooper officer, young one, running after his convoy and chant, no more war, no more bloodshed.
It was redemption.
It was eschatological.
It was messianic.
It was the first time Israel was offered a different syntax, from a syntax of war to a grammar of peace.
We never grew up into the challenge of Saadat, never.
We never walked all the way with the Egyptians, with the Palestinians, as was part of the original Camp David framework.
And we rejected it.
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