Burg & Sharansky

In the debate about Avrum Burg's book over at TPM Cafe, Daniel Levy (who seems to be the only commentator who's actually read Burg's book) says Burg could be the kind of moral and intellectual stimulus (as well as source of credibility) to progressive Zionism that Natan Sharansky has been to neoconservatism:

The intellectual discourse promoted by Sharansky and others had practical policy implications and they were an unmitigated disaster; the intellectual counter-insurgency which must be launched, and of which Burg should be a part, will also of course produce our own policy ideas, and they will provide us, all of us--American, Arab, and Israeli alike--with a far brighter future.

It's an interesting point of contrast since Sharansky and Avigdor Lieberman, coming from a Russian immigrant community that generally speaking had no direct experience of the Shoah, have come to define the sort of perverse Holocaust-clinging to which Burg (whose family came directly from the crucible of death, in Germany) objects so vehemently.