Establishing a Jewish society in Palestine

The Ten Commandments of the Zionist movement

The seven commandments which were mentioned earlier were all based on the preferences and superiority of the Jewish nation over the other nations, emphasized the need to establish a Jewish state through international support and also to establish strong relations with the superpowers, Jewish immigration to Palestine and the expulsion of the Palestinian people by force and threats. Nevertheless, Herzl knew that it was not enough to fulfill the goals of Zionism; rather, there has to be a Jewish community which should be established to complement and support the activities of the government in this way. Because he believed that creating a state and building a community were very different from each other and are indeed two very different cases.
It was then that the eighth commandment of the Ten Commandments put forward by Herzl was revealed to the Jewish nation which was forming the Jewish community in Palestine. In addition, everyone involved realized the importance and necessity of the creation of a community after the establishment of the state. Of course, Herzl had foreseen the time of the formation of the Jewish state and he had achieved it later, as about 50 years after the Congress Party which was held in August 1897, the United Nations recognized Israel and thus ended his mission in this case. Nevertheless, he never predicted the time of the formation of a completely Jewish community for the reason that he knew that this would take more time to be realized. If we have a closer look at the situation and change in the Israeli society during the last fifty years, as we look back, we can see why the eighth commandment proposed by Herzl has not taken place and this is the only commandment that the Zionists have failed to put into practice.
Of course, the failure of the Zionists in order to achieve this, has not been because of their disloyalty, treason, deviation from the principles or shirking the responsibility on part of the Jewish people, but actually it has been because of the exceptional circumstances and the complex form of the Israeli society which makes forming one community very unlikely despite the fact that the State has been already established.
Any society is formed based on the nature and history of different ethnic groups, with customs, traditions and their own culture and in an area of the earth, and such a society therefore can never be created in a land that is not its own and has no relationship with it.
A society cannot include a set of cultures, ideas, beliefs, customs, traditions, language and aspirations of diverse and contradictory immigrants who have come from abroad and have gathered in one place. However, a homogeneous society is created and survives through collaboration and cooperation between groups in familiar territory and a favorable atmosphere.
And these are the people who, as a body, thought, tradition, feelings and ideas based on the intertwined national and patriotic sensations make a society. Well, with such attributes, you can theorize as to how the Jews, after decades of occupation and usurpation and diversity, may be able to assimilate and build such a society.
Herzl and the other Zionist leaders of the movement, despite all the success in the formation of the Jewish state, had never managed to solve this very problem. The problem was the establishment of a unified society from different elements. Because they were trying to bring together the puzzle page of the Zionist society to pieces by quite heterogeneous pieces in terms of color, race, culture, ideas, beliefs, customs, traditions, language, and wanted to complete such a society only on the basis of a common religion. In addition, they wanted to do such a thing by using a religion which has never been a good neighbor to the surrounding religions of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.
The religion that does not allow itself to join the others, and stops human reason from contacting and interacting with the other thought and, in a word, it is an inefficient religion who has lived long enough and has outlived its capacities. It is a religion that is a mixture of disintegrated splendor and a combination of the traditions, norms and distorted promises throughout the history. Everyone is suspicious of the credibility of the Jewish religion. In addition to these points, the followers of Judaism are of two kinds, either those who just thought about the material and political use of the religion or those who do not believe in religion or in other words are irreligious to the point!
Yes, the pieces of the puzzle that Herzl by which was trying to create a dynamic, lively and beautiful portrait did not work properly and Judaism is also too weak to be able to create a real connection between these parts.
For the same reason, Herzl and his colleagues, as they were successful to gather the Jews under the roof of a government, did not manage to create a Jewish community in the true sense and we also believe that they will never succeed in doing so. Because the government can be established with political decisions and under the right conditions, but only according to the rules and norms of domestic and foreign natural and facts which can be built. Herzl was distanced intellectually largely from the Lovers of Zion movement and those thinkers that wanted to create a Jewish country as in the simplistic thought of taking the sheep from the desert to the lush grasslands and the wet lands. This was supposed to be done by taking the Jewish people and especially the European downtrodden Jews from the Eastern and central Europe through buying or renting the lands in Palestine. Thus, for this intellectual distance, Herzl was never able to create a community of the political regime that will guarantee the existence and survival of the regime. The heterogeneous society, even if it is within the framework of a strong and intimidating state, will remain forever heterogeneous and fragmented.
Yes, the Zionists who were able to make the Jews who were cowards, defeated and recessive to dominant civilians committing murder and intimidating a quarter of a million of the Arabs, failed in creating a new and modern human being with a Jewish-Zionist tendency.
A hundred years have elapsed from the beginning of the Zionist movement and fifty years have passed since the beginning of the formation of the Jewish state. Nevertheless, the Zionists are still yearning for developing and creating a Jewish-Zionist human being. A human being who has forgotten about the linguistic, cultural, traditional, and even religious differences with the and, like the other societies, have managed to live with its neighbors on the basis of a shared vision but to preserve national customs, traditions and its ancient culture, within a close proximity.
Of course, however, the immigration of the Jews from all over the world to Palestine is not the sole cause of the disability of the Zionists in the creation of an internal unity in the country and other factors are involved that we have mentioned here:
1-The Jewish settlers, both before and after the establishment of the Jewish state of Palestine, found that Palestine is not the same land of milk and honey as their ancestors had promised them, and they did not have any dependencies on the land. For the same reason, they had to take up arms, fight and always live with fear and trembling for protecting themselves and their families.
The immigrants had come to life, but found that they have come to Palestine for the exposure to death or at risk of death.
They had come to relax and get comfortable, but found the new life is just trying not to die and, as they say, they are very lucky to be still alive.
Thus, the immigrants were riding on a train that took them to a place other than their destination. So this is how the Jews continue to live their rough and bumpy lives?
2. Israel demands of immigrants many sacrifices of life and property. The country's economy revolves around the needs of the military - security aspects. The mandatory military service is in fact the most important occupation and the militarization of Zionism is a fixed tax is that every Israeli should pay.
We speak of the people who are known to everyone throughout the history for gaining profits and interests from immoral, inhumane and illegal means. We do not mean the Hebrew language or the racism of these people; rather, we are pointing to the sayings and traditions of the philosophers, thinkers and leaders of the Jewish people in their history.
The new Jews who were intended by the Jewish Zionist movement based on Jewish thought is the same man who used to be unlawful and is very ungenerous with money and property.
3. The transfer of the racist, obsessive, and poor Eastern European Jews to Palestine and to save them from a life of misery is the only justification for the existence of the Zionist movement and the need for the world's Jews to immigrate to Palestine was considered in the payment of their migration and settlement costs.
But when the Jews knew that from the little slums of Europe, they have set foot in the big prison which is called Israel and the so-called and, as it goes, they have gone out of the pit and into a well, this has been accordingly, leading to the failure of the Zionists in the implementation of one of the Zionist commands which was the founding of a unified Jewish community. So how will the Zionist be able to solve this problem now?
The Jewish immigrants who had come from Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Arabic regions and even those who were born in Palestine, with all their individual, ideological, and racial differences were an obstacle in the way leading to the establishment of a unified society.
What we mean by the differences is indeed the contradictions of race, class and culture among the various sectors of society in Israel, the Sephardic and Ashkenazi, Jews, Arabs, Europeans, Jews with their origin in North America, the Eastern and Western Europe, and in summary, the white, black, yellow and red Jews who in fact come from the Third World.
To better understand the fate of Jewish settlers, it is good to consider the fate of the Jews from Ethiopia (Falasha) after moving to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Because they are subject to all social, financial, administrative, even various official discriminations, and even their soldiers in the Israeli army who are to serve people, and in fact have come to defend the interests of other Jews, may be grappling with the oppression and the other ill-treatment imposed on them by their coreligionists.
5. Creating a correct and complete balance among the different currents and the contradictory factors in a society is very difficult and in many cases it is impossible. The Zionists have been unable to create any common ground among the members of their nations to date. For example, we consider the language. As you know, most of the Jewish settlers who have come to Palestine are still foreign to the Hebrew language and still speak the language of their original country. Because each ethnic group has its own language and the spread of the Hebrew for the Zionist leaders has been but a wish which has not come true yet. Even Herzl, who was the leader and the top member of the Zionist movement, did not know Hebrew and for the closing speech of the First Zionist Congress, he was forced to commit to memory a few words in Hebrew?
The Zionists that know their ancestral language to be Hebrew has thought that it is necessary to learn the language appropriately and the new Jewish community centers and schools have established in this regard. Therefore, it is taught as the official language to everyone. However, the number of people who actually speak Hebrew in Israel and abroad is still very low. What nation can you really know whose people do not have the same language? Of course, it is true that Israel is the only country in the world that despite the fact that the official language is Hebrew, some people speak different languages. For example, in India and China, people speak and use dozens of different dialects, but it should be noted that in terms of size, culture, and history and population, these countries are much larger in size and population than Israel and, respectively, their population is two hundred and two hundred and fifty times larger than the population of Israel.
In addition, the people of such countries for thousands of years of cultural and ethnic ties to each other are indeed very close, while Israel would not have such old and rooted connections.
All this goes back to the vicissitudes of the way that the World Zionist leaders wanted to achieve a society with a pro-government unit and then began to develop it.
Of course, we do not deny the attempts made by the Jewish leaders to solve the problem through education and the promotion of the Hebrew language by the schools, the press and the mass media. Because they used other methods and tools in addition to these instruments which we are going to explain briefly here.
At the beginning of the British Mandate over Palestine, the Labor Party tried to implement this plan through the process as they planned to transfer the Jewish settlers and build settlements in Palestine in this stage. The Hebrew action was not limited to only one part of its goal of clearing all sectors of agriculture, industry, construction and other non-technical issues of the Arab forces.
That is why we can say that the Jews who were in the mid-20th as planned and coordinated, were meant to substitute the Arab population and the Arabs thus went to a large-scale boycott.
Another goal of the Hebrew efforts was to attract the Jewish immigrants for living in the ordinary course and enjoying the land of Palestine. At that time, a lot of money and business owners (traders and craftsmen), the self-employed, and Jewish academics in the fields of medicine, engineering, education and specialists arrived in Palestine in general, while most of the land to farmers, livestock and poultry farmers and small craftsmen were needed. For this reason, many of these white collars were employed in agriculture, construction, and reconstruction.
Even Ben-Gurion, the spiritual father of the Hebrew action, was proud that he had led the holders of a doctorate degree in physics and chemistry, in Israeli society to grow wheat, raise sheep, and milk the cows, build roads, sharpen knives, weave baskets and pick fruits from the trees as a job!
These individuals were turned into a role model for the new immigrants, both illiterate, educated professionals. The Hebrew action could also build a society in which all are at the service of Israel. The slogan was: Anyone who does not work is not a Zionist and, does not matter what work, the kind of work is determined by the Hebrew action!!
Yes, the Hebrew action was a view in the mirror pointing to the eighth commandment of the Ten Commandments and the constant principle of the Zionist movement and the slogan was: a society is a condition for the survival of the Jewish state and condition of the survival of the community. In this way, the Hebrew action played its role in creating the Jewish community and its share of the Zionist structures but this was not sufficient to assimilate the society which contained so many heterogeneous elements and component parts. A society whose skies are still dark and gloomy for the geographical diversity and differences.