The Ashkenazi Revolution

48relationships between two peoples similar to each other racially butstrangers politically. A similar dynamic is at work with the Russians andthe Poles. The king of Judah, Asa, called on Aram-Damascus to come tohis aid during an attack by the kingdom of Israel from the North. In thisway, the kingdom of Israel maintained an enemy that caused it trouble for along time. Yehoash, king of Israel, routed Amasiyah, king of Judah, andlooted the Temple in Jerusalem. But there were also times when theirrelationship was better and they took part in joint ventures against theirenemies. But these two kingdoms were always separate, and competing,kingdoms. Judah saw, in Israel, a helpful buffer against the rising andaggressive power of Assyria, and when Israel fell to the blows of Assyria,in the year 722, Jerusalem was in mourning first and foremost not over theextinction of their kindred kingdom, but over the loss of their defensivebuffer. The division of the tribes and kingdoms was a natural continuation,and a materialization, of the will of the Patriarchs of the race of Israel, whodespised a centralized unified people but desired a “congregation ofpeoples”, a confederacy of peoples. Furthermore: the federal structure, thatallowed each tribe/people to nourish its own qualities first and foremost,was a blessing. In the kingdom of Israel exceptional men, such as Elijahthe prophet and great kings, who fought mightily against Assyrianexpansion, arose. The Israelite segment, which began with the eviction ofHagar and Ishmael, increased with time and acquired, in a natural fashion,wider and wider dimensions and ended with two rival and competingkingdoms. However, as stated, this development was necessary andunavoidable. The centralization of David – Solomon was alreadydegenerating in the last years of Solomon, and had it continued, the resultswould have been much worse than natural division. The main tragedy thatoccurred due to the division was the destruction of the Tribe of Benjamin, aresult that should not be blamed on the leaders and elders of the tribes, butfirst and foremost on the false prophets, who turned political competitioninto a moral crusade. The 211 years of the existence of two Jewishkingdoms, during the days of the First Temple, put to shame all modernattempts to describe the People of Israel as one people that was divided byexile, that is to say, into tribes. These claims are willful distortion andintentional lies. The People of Israel was born as a “congregation of