This Week At Cafe
This week, we'll be discussing Avraham Burg's new book The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise From Its Ashes. Burg is the former Speaker of the Knesset in Israel (1999-2003), turned political dissenter, and the book is at once intensely personal-- using his own family history to think about the Jewish state today-- and significantly political. He writes in his intro post (to go up shortly):
My argument is simple -- very soon our children will live in a world without living witnesses. The Holocaust will become a memory rather than an experience. So how do we depart from experience to memory, from trauma to trust, from the past to the future?
Joining the conversation are: Philip Weiss, who blogs at www.philipweiss.org and is the author of American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps; John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago professor and author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy; TPMCafe regulars Bernard Avishai, the author of Hebrew Republic and Jo-Ann Mort, the founder and CEO of ChangeCommunications; Daniel Levy, director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation, and a former adviser to the Israeli government; Jonathan Jacoby, a writer and former director of the Israel Policy Forum; Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of jstreet.org, who served as Bill Clinton's deputy domestic policy adviser.
Stay tuned for Burg's first post.
Sheesh!
I hope ya'll are prepared for some fireworks once the word gets out about some of these controversial contributers.
Kudos to TPMCafe for having the baytzim (HT Rahm E.) to wave these red flags in the faces of the usual suspects.
December 8, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
What is "HT"?
December 8, 2008 11:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Short for Hat Tip.
December 9, 2008 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Lila.
As an addendum to DanK's valid criticism on Burg's thread that TPM has no Arab voices on the Cafe, may I suggest that it's time to address that lack?
And may I also stipulate that Arabs who have already been stamped "approved" by the likes of the AEI and Daniel Pipes would not expand the dialogue?
Even a non-Arab who knows the territory such as Joshua Landis would bring some invaluable and badly needed perspectives to the Cafe.
December 8, 2008 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Time heals all things. We will not forget, but we will move forward. It will happen naturally as a generational change. Children will not forget what their parents have taught them, and the memories will live on, less vividly, in our children, in their children, and so on.
December 8, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink