The Ashkenazi Revolution

54Samaritans. The Canaanite desire to reach an agreement, and peace, withthe Arabs has its source in its wish to caste off the only obligation it admitsto, the obligation to fight, with weapons in hand, for Jewish independencein the land.4The utilitarian trend that seeks to ensure, for the Jewish settlement in theLand of Israel, a status of hegemony vis-à-vis the Diaspora, hasstrengthened the tendency to attribute a grossly exaggerated importance tothose remnant Jews who existed in the land from the end of the Jewishsettlement upon it, at the end of the Byzantine era, until our own days.This attitude attributes great symbolic importance to historic curiositiessuch as the Jews of Peqi’in, and it claims that the State of Israel arose, to alarge degree, thanks to small Jewish settlements that never ceased and werenever interrupted all this time; settlements some of which, Peqi’in forexample, are a continuous extension of the ancient Jewish population, andsome of which were founded by small migrations, that streamed in andreached the Land of Israel over time, mainly from nearby Mideastern lands.An outstanding example of this ideology is the second president of theState of Israel, Isaac Ben-Tzvi of blessed memory, who invested much toiland self-sacrifice to research the small vestiges of Jewish settlements in theLand of Israel and saw them as stations on the way to the foundation of theState of Israel of today. This ideology is a complete distortion of thehistorical truth and the intellectual deception therein borders on theridiculous. Furthermore: It contradicts itself. Had the great importance ofthe Jews of Peqi’in, and other islands of the Jewish settlement that weremaintained in the Land of Israel, been genuine, then surely these Jewswould have been the leaders among the founders and builders of the Stateof Israel of today, and not Jews who came from the distant lands of theNorth, among the Ben-Tzvi himself, a man of Poltava, and his intimatefriend David Ben-Gurion, a man of Plonsk. The State of Israel of today,like the state of the Second Temple, did not come about from those whohad continuously lived on the land – the historical truth is that the Jewswho lived continuously in the Land of Israel became Hellenized – but from