The Ashkenazi Revolution

129to bring such tragedy as the “men of spirit” and the “men of values”brought with their political decisions.Herzl was alone among all the Jewish leaders who participated in the greatstruggle with the anti-Semitic Satan. He sought a solution for the JewishQuestion, that is to say the Ashkenazi Question, in this that he took abalanced, constructive and far reaching stance regarding internationalpolicy. By shelving the Uganda proposal, the Zionists effectivelyannounced, to international anti-Semitism, that they do not wish to changeanything; that they wish to dwell, until the last generation, in the Diasporaand to busy themselves minimally with the settlement of the Land of Israel,which is not able to accommodate even the natural increase of the JewishPeople. It is as if a call went out to European anti-Semitism, From theSixth Congress, that it is its job to solve the Jewish Question in its ownway, since the Jews refuse to solve it.The tragedy of the Sixth Congress created an additional problem. Itdestroyed, to a great extent, the ideological identity of Herzl. The prophetof the Jewish nation was a consistent territorialist, but this was not his way.He wished to found a nation in Africa, but in practice, he founded it in theLand of Israel. He waved the flag of rebellion in a filtered andphilanthropic way, but in the end those who touted these tactics defeatedhim. Death took him before he was able to exit these complicationsthrough decisive, clear and unequivocal action. Therefore his politicalidentity became unclear. Therefore it is possible to interpret Zionism inmany ways, more so than any other movement in the world. There areHerzlian Zionists (and nobody knows exactly what this is), there aresocialist Zionists, religious, monarchist, practical, settlement-oriented, big,small (why not long and short?), etc. etc. The great and wonderful assets ofthe Herzlian identity have been blurred. As a result of this there is not, norwill there ever be, a clear definition of Zionism or Zionist. The writer ofthese pages is not a Zionist; he is an Ashkenazi nationalist. TheAshkenazim are a people that lives in specific circumstances, and whoseobligation is to pass from the life of the ghettos among foreign peoples to alife that a regular people lives upon its land. One who concentrates on this