“It's not only incorrect, it's a kind of slander against Jews. It is itself a kind of anti-semitism — because no, not all Jews are represented by Benjamin Netanyahu, and there are many who don't want to be.”
Former Israeli interim president and Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg argues that Israel's military campaign against Iran operates without any coherent endgame — just accumulated tactics dressed up as strategy — driven by a deep cultural psychology that frames every conflict as a zero-sum existential battle requiring total elimination of the enemy. Burg, a decorated paratrooper and lifelong Zionist insider, traces this mindset to a lethal combination of millennia of Jewish persecution and Netanyahu's neoconservative "civilization of light vs. darkness" worldview, which together make genuine peace negotiations psychologically impossible for the current Israeli political class. For any professional trying to cut through the noise on the Middle East, this is a rare and credible insider voice — not an outside critic, but a man who once held the presidency — offering a structural explanation for why diplomatic off-ramps keep failing, and why the war's trajectory may be far less calculated than Washington assumes.
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