The Ashkenazi Revolution

on a neo-Samaritan attitude, which sees space as primary and time assecondary, and which tends to waste all the gains that the People of Israelhad accumulated while it depended only on the plane of time; that is to say,the creations that came about in exile. Two thousand years of Jewish exile,which are two thousand years of exclusive dependence on the plane oftime, is among the greatest accomplishments in the history of mankind.But, in the eyes of the Canaanites and the Labor Party, this accomplishmentis of no importance compared to half a dozen points of settlement, that havecome about through the strength, and because of the strength, of thekingdom-of-time whose name is exile. According to this view, a Jew whowalks upon the Land of Israel, who is attached to it and rooted in it, isalways preferable to a Jew of the Diaspora, so that a Jewish criminal andthief who lives in the Land of Israel, is worth more than a Jewish NobelPrize laureate who lives in exile. If we remove the thick and disgustinglayer of deceptive eye shadow, lipstick and other makeup that cover up thisattitude, then we are left with a neo-Samaritan outlook, that holds theclinging to the space of the land as the utmost vision. Whereas theSamaritans are the most instructive example of clinging to the land, theSamaritan aristocracy, that had formed the image of this nation, has dweltupon this land continuously from the time of the conquest of Israel and hasnever been exiled from it. Those who are counted among this aristocracyare the all-important non-diaspora Jews. Furthermore: The Samaritans,despite their small numbers, battled the Romans during the Jewish rebellionand, later on, they rebelled against the Byzantines, even though they wereforcefully converted by the Seleucids who made them worship Zeus, to acertain extent, in the Temple. (But this fact does not disqualify them in theeyes of the Canaanites). In the best of scenarios, the Canaanite culture thatis taking form in our days in the State of Israel, is as good as that of theSamaritans. It has no chance of becoming a worldly culture, since thedimension it seeks, and struggles to attain, is the midget dimension of thespace of the Land of Israel. But there is no doubt that the Canaaniteculture, if it is somehow able to come into its own and find itself, will be adwarf compared to that of the Samaritans. Firstly because it lacks areligious faith as the Samaritans have. Secondly, its attachment to the land,and its willingness to struggle in order to keep it, is dwarfed by that of the53