THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

and not in Le Monde, in French? His interviewers, Dror Mish’ani and AureliaSemotraze, commented that “he stressed once and again that what he would tell us hecould not say in France anymore. ‘You cannot say it in France. It is even dangerousto say there.’” Indeed, as long as the interview and the ideas remained in the IsraeliHaaretz, readers for the most part were happy. Here is proof from someone whowas wholly against the 1982 war in Lebanon, the Israeli policy vis-à-vis Sarajevo,and now by his leftist authority, he provides legitimacy to Israel’s current wickedness:“Arabs, all Arabs, are the same, aren’t they?” Unfortunately for the philosopher, hisinterview was translated into French and his true beliefs were exposed.True, Israel is very different from France, at least the one that still exists in ourtheory. In France, secular citizenship stands in for state religion; in Israel, the state isthe state of the Jewish religion. The first is historically human-based, for here andnow. Its source of authority is the people who compose its society, and they are allequal according to the classic foundations of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Ourcountry, however, is a Jewish state of Jewish people, whose de facto constitution isone law for Jews and one for the others who reside among us. Israel appears to be alaw-based state; its Declaration of Independence is supposed to be her constitution.But it is clear that the source of authority is emotional, emanating from two origins:God and his rabbis, and the Shoah-hood, traumas, and resulting paranoia. Anyonewho has not been blessed by God above, or has been involved in hostility toward aJew or Judaism, will be cast outside the Israeli circle of legitimacy—unless it is aGerman car.The entire Torah in one verse, Hillel the Elder told us, is not doing to others whatwe hated done to us when we were others. In Israel today there are horrible layersof racism that are not essentially different from the racism that exterminated many ofour ancestors. This racism is sanctimonious and slick, so we do not always noticehow dangerous it is. It is also cunning and marketable; sometimes we are mistaken tothink that it is pure patriotism. It isn’t. The conversion of everything into holiness,without leaving room for self-criticism, combined with the sanctity of nationhood andthe hostile environment that we try daily to withstand, turns the monopolists of theIsraeli religious spirit to de facto and de jure racists. It is imperative to declare a warof values with these racists, and to present a practical alternative of faith to thedistortion they call “Judaism” and which they present as our authentic faith.Often in the heat of arguments with them I am threatened, “There will be a war