The Ashkenazi Revolution

38activists, before the First World War, and the farmers. Indeed, every majorblock and political party in Israel has many traits of the ancient tribes ofIsrael, which are found both in cooperative and hostile actions with othertribes. This world of the ancient tribes of Israel has come to vividresurrection in the 1940’s, when arms became plentiful, the armedorganizations of the settlement became strong, and when war against theforeigners, along with internal competition and hatred, became moresevere.5The most important early societal event, in the life of the People of Israel,was when Hagar the Egyptian and her son Ishmael were sent away from thetent of our Patriarch Abraham. This banishment was the first of a chain ofevents, which continue to this day, and will continue to the end of allgenerations, that lead to internal divisions in Israel. The concubine statusof Hagar and her son Ishmael was completely legitimate and thebanishment was a tyrannical and cruel deed that was done for selectivereasons. It was our matriarch Sarah who provoked the banishment andAbraham was angry with her, but carried out her wish nevertheless. Ourmatriarch Sarah was a strong woman of high status, and she demandedmonogamy. Therefore, it is possible to assume that the purpose of thebanishment was to erase and make forgotten the insults she suffered whileshe was barren. But this conclusion is not supported by the actions of ourmatriarch Rebecca, who provoked Jacob to ensure the birthright for himselfat the expense of his brother Esau. Jacob and Esau were both the twins ofour mother Rebecca, and there was no motivation, except for purefavoritism, which would justify Rebecca’s preference that the birthright goto Jacob. The struggle for preference, among the children of the Patriarchs,gets worse and worse from patriarch to patriarch. In the family ofAbraham, the son of a maidservant and the maidservant herself, are evicted.In the family of Isaac, the firstborn son of the mistress gets evicted. In thedays of Jacob the struggle for preference reaches its apex in the divided andbranched family, which was perhaps the most complex of all foundingfamilies in the history of mankind. There is almost no kind of competitive