| Author/Contributor(s): | Burg, Avraham (Avrum); Carlson, Tucker |
| Publisher: | Tucker Carlson Books |
| Date: | 11/10/2026 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Part memoir, part reckoning, part argument for a different future, The Vengeance of Peace asks whether Israel can survive without an external enemy and refuses to let the reader look away from the answer. Avrum Burg, a former Speaker of the Knesset raised in the shadow of the Hebron massacre and the Holocaust, traces how Israel's founding trauma hardened, over decades, into a permanent and self-justifying machinery of fear. Weaving personal history with classical Jewish thought and firsthand political experience, Burg builds a case that is at once intimate and unflinching: that the mechanisms meant to guarantee Jewish survival (the army, collective memory, the state itself) have instead become obstacles standing in its way.
Burg writes with equal fluency about a childhood behind barbed wire, a mother who never stopped mourning Hebron, and the Talmudic arguments that once made Jewish life a practice of doubt rather than certainty. From there the book moves into serious historical and political territory: the politics of Holocaust memory, the machinery of occupation, to October 2023's grief, the complicity of the wider world, before arriving, finally, at a concrete, rights-based proposal for what might come next, offered not as wishful thinking but as the logical destination of everything argued before it.
Accessible enough for the general reader who wants a human way into a difficult subject, yet substantive enough for those already steeped in the region's history and politics, this is ultimately a book about whether a nation defined by fear can ever choose something else instead.