The Ashkenazi Revolution

135Israel was then only a drop in the vast Jewish sea of Eastern Europe. What,however, could this drop bring? It could not bring a different, new identitysince it did not want this - because by relinquishing a Jewish state in EastAfrica, is also automatically relinquished a Jewish state in the Land ofIsrael. The logic of the matter itself, and the logic hidden in the desire ofthe “Zionists of Zion”, fixed the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel as aplace of diaspora; a diaspora alongside the other diasporas and beside theother diasporas, where a drop that is part of the sea belongs to the sea.Because of this, the Zionists introduced their own specific variety, that is tosay that the Hebrew settlement in the Land of Israel was not just a typicaldiaspora. It was a model diaspora, a diaspora that all the other diasporaslook up to, a diaspora of beauty, which stands in the same synagogue withthe other diasporas except that it is in the easternmost corner of thissynagogue. The history of the Hebrew settlement in the Land of Israel,until the strength of the Revisionists appeared as a powerful force, was asystematic effort to become a model diaspora, upon which all the otherdiasporas look with admiration, and send good pioneers and largecontributions.4The trend to obscure the fact that the Hebrew settlement in the Land ofIsrael is a new diaspora, and to hide this fact behind various externalguises, reached its apex in the revival of the Hebrew language. Thecreation of this new language testified, like a hundred witnesses, thatZionism does not seek a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. A great worldlylanguage, that is spoken by the masses, is one of the greatest leverages forsuccessful and effective colonization, as was proven by the colonizationcampaigns of the English nation. A new and weak language, such asModern Hebrew, makes the settlement program more difficult, bothbecause it forces the masses to learn a new language instead of devotingthemselves to the actual work of settlement, and because the new languagelacks the power to clarify many concepts and ideas, and as a result of this itcreates a state of confusion and lack of clarity. The revival of the Hebrewlanguage was not required for the solution to the Ashkenazi Question, just