The Ashkenazi Revolution

255is almost impossible to find an objective, high-quality, intellectual work.Even the diplomatic project, unique in its kind, of Haim Weitzmann, inattaining the Balfour Declaration (a science book, dealing with diplomacyduring the First World War, describes Weitzmann as the greatest diplomatof this era) does not find appropriate recognition. The behavior of theLabor movement is described in this literature as a collective pope whonever errs. A regime such as this, that chokes all honest historiography,automatically annihilates any chance of a generation of young, skilled andindependent leaders from arising.The Labor movement distorts the future in the only way possible, byignoring it. In my conversations with members of the Labor movement, Ihave repeatedly encountered a refusal to confront what is likely to occur ina few years. An average person, in the worker parties, appears to be onewho deals only with matters related to immenent elections for the Knessetor the Agency. Apparently, a member of the Labor movement willnormally take an angry, or stubborn, attitude when confronted withsomeone who wishes to turn the conversation to matters of the future. Thisfear of the future has deep roots. Apparently, many in the Labor movementsee the future as a time of threats and the end of the world, where the greatexperimental campaigns are likely to explode to pieces. The typical Labormovement member does not stand out at all as having strong faith. On thecontrary, this person is full of doubts. His fear of the future parallels thespecifically feminine fear of the time when the world of her beauty isruined, and her dreams of erotic conquest-sorcery, in which she wasemmersed in her good years, sink to the depths. The shockingcomplacency of the Labor movement, and its difficulty in passing the reignof leadership to young hands, are no doubt tied in with these fears of thefuture. It seems that one of the early conditions of correct policy is topsychologically overcome the future, and to attain a clear approach to itsawful depths and its wonderful heights. This overcoming is not at allamong the traits of the Labor movement in recent years.The Modern Hebrew language finds itself at a dead end. It was not createdwith the intention of reaching the era of Isaiah or the days of Judah the