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Blogs Liberty and Power Words of Wisdom

Dec 21, 2008

Words of Wisdom

by Liberty and Power

"He [Avraham Burg] wants a new Jewish identity focused not on the particular but on the universal, asserting that 'if we do not establish modern Israeli identity on foundations of optimism, faith in humans and full trust in the family of nations, we have no chance of existing.'"