The Ashkenazi Revolution

40The weak and weakened peoples fall to the wayside in this parade and thestrong continue to go on and, as they become weak, they too fall to the sideand the newer, younger peoples that have since been born, carry on. Butnot unity, for unity cuts the bonds of eternity and puts an end to the paradethat is required to continue on forever.6Since the People of Israel is the chosen people and it has a covenant withthe Creator of the World, it is not a normal nation among nations, with theirdealings and competitions. Its chosenness, in its internationalunderstanding, has one meaning and that is that the People of Israel hasalready defeated the other peoples. It has already “finished them off”, andtherefore it has no interest in prevailing over them again through theconquest of space, especially since space is not important to the Jews, buttime is. The foreign policy of the Jewish People, until the last period of theSecond Temple, was one of self-defense, which strove to ensure a quietexistence, without interference, for the Jews within its limited inheritance.This policy was directed at expelling hostile forces and no more. Theempire of David was the result of momentum that was created duringdefensive wars against the Philistines, and had the Philistines beenprevented from persecuting the People of Israel, and had left them in peace,David’s empire would never have arisen. The more that the chosennessseeks to minimize contact and competition between the People of Israel andother nations, the more intense and severe, to the maximum, will be theinternal struggles between the tribes of Israel. For the tribes are not onepeople but a coalition of peoples, and therefore the question has alwaysbeen who is the most chosen of the Israelite peoples; that is to say, which isthe people that will continue, more than the others, the parade of Israelitepeoples to eternity. The central idea of Jewish history is, therefore,competition, war and struggle between the Israelite peoples themselves,who struggle for the crown of maximum existence, of maximum eternity.In the blessing of our Patriarch Jacob, we already see a clear expression ofthe vision that the internal struggle of Israel will take place mainly between