The Ashkenazi Revolution

134writing methodology of political and ideological creations. Herzl based hisdoctrine upon the historical method. As a jurist and as an excellentjournalist, he was close to history, both of the past and of current events,and he based his doctrine upon the facts that were revealed within it, andthe powers that act within it. This was also the way of Pinsker, Nordau,Zangwill and, to a certain extent also Jabotinsky. But this was not the casewith the “practical” Zionist ideologues. Here we mostly find thefoundations of personal desire, polemics, second-rate ethical philosophysuch as that of Ahad ha’Am and Aaron David Gordon. The method of“practical” Zionist ideology is a literary method, which gives great freedomfor evading the truth and for following the path of personal desire. In thedebate that exists between the truth and the author, this method alwaystakes the side of the author. The subjective-tactical basis is far strongerthan the analytical one and its purpose is to aid the author, who demandsfor himself extensive pampering rights, to struggle with concepts whoseroots are in objective truth. This literary practice, which is aided by anabundance of tactics, was first used by Ahad ha’Am in his war againstHerzl. Later, it turned into the standard tool of the leftist-Zionistideologues and of the great majority of Zionist propaganda. It served as atool that allowed the political parties to prove almost anything that theywished: To prove that a state is not desirable, and later that it is desirable,to condemn and to justify aggressive actions against Arabs, to sabotagecertain social processes, and to accept them. This tactic is by its nature, asstated, a characteristically subjective tool that serves only he who choosesto avail himself of it. The damage that is caused by the frequent use of thistactic is great indeed.The State of Israel, in its current condition, is a part of the Diaspora. Thisstate is too small to divide the Jewish existence within it into two areas,state and the Diaspora. There is but one Jewish reality today, and since thestate is smaller than the Diaspora, it is part of the Diaspora. However thestrength of the State of Israel today is so great that it is permitted to boastthat it represents the independent half of the People of Israel, the half that iscalled a state. However, the “Zionists of Zion” were not able to indulge insuch boasting after the year 1903. The Jewish settlement in the Land of