The Ashkenazi Revolution

109With all his might, he tried to prove that this element of the plan was notmerely empty words, but that he was willing and ready to do anything inorder to acquire permission from the Sultan. The sickly man traveledseveral times to Constantinople in order to advance a concept he no longerbelieved in, and only to prove to the Lovers of Zion that he was faithful tohis plan. The “spiritual” Zionists ridiculed the diplomatic skills of thisamazing diplomat, but at the same time they demanded that he bring them acharter at any cost. Finally, there was the Uganda Proposition, an openingfor the grandiose settlement of Ashkenazim in all of East Africa that mighthave prevented the Holocaust. The enemies of Herzl had no permission toprevent him from taking his own path. Finally, they realized that from thebeginning, he his version of Zionism was never exclusively for the Land ofIsrael. But they organized a tragic drama of tears and howling and theyganged up on the sickly Herzl with insults and abuse, calling him a“traitor” and a “demagogue” so that, in practice, they murdered him in coldblood and then inherited all that he had built. Had Herzl been able to write,in his last days, a summery of his activities, it would have been a shockingdocument. He understood that he had erred, for he had fallen into the trapand had succumbed to his mortal enemies. But it was too late. Had Herzllived a few more years, things would have been different, and the fate ofthe Ashkenazi People would have been different. But his death gaveHerzl’s enemies complete victory. This great destruction almost spelledthe end for Jewish success in the Land of Israel, and if the state wasestablished, it was due to a surprising series of miraculous events.2Had the battle been only between Herzl on one side and the Lovers of Zionon the other, the results would have been different. The Lovers of Zionmovement was not competing with Herzl. As stated, the praiseworthypioneer-settlers in the Land of Israel are one thing and the leadership of themovement is quite another. The former wrote a shining page in history, butthe leadership failed in almost everything and only the dedication of BaronBenjamin Rothschild saved the settlement. The true opposition to Herzl,which lured all the opposition to it, was the New Hebrew Literature and its