Title:

Israel at 65: an optimistic view on past and future life with immanent
unsolvable problems

Prof. Elisha Haas

June 6, 2013


Synopsis:

The renewed Jewish sovereignty in the old homeland is both contradictory
to the normal development of world history and contradictory to the
basic theology of the major religions. As such this unprecedented
miracle is the source of the war against the Jewish homeland.

This war has many manifestations and will probably never disappear. The
European states do whatever they can to support the struggle against
Israel and the original Christian anti-Semitism was converted to
anti-Zionism/anti-Israel. In the whole Middle East the political
structures that were imposed by the colonialists collapsed and the
tribal system returned with strong Jihadist approach to the West and to
the Jewish state. The Palestinians are not the key issue here; it is the
Jihad of Islam against the West and the Jewish sovereignty in the holy
land that is the main conflict. El Qaeda and Iran, two different
versions of Islam are united in this Jihad. When they say that they are
going to wipe Israel out, they mean it. Israel should prepare for the
Jihadist war and prepare for the situation where it is fighting alone,
without any support, as was the case in the past. Israel has only one
real ally, the Jewish people worldwide.

The peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan are short term and we should
remember that these are only "hudnas" (i.e. peace treaties that Muslims
respect only when they cannot overcome the enemy), both states are
preparing for the war with a lot of American equipment. The two state
solution to the side conflict with the Palestinians cannot work, it is
advocated only by those who do not understand the problems or those who
want the Jewish soverignty to disappear. It will eventually work, but
only when the "Arab Spring" will destroy the current regime in Jordan
and it will become the homeland for the Arabs of Eretz Israel, which is
not a matter of far future.

Yet, the main danger to Israel's future is the internal conflict between
those who hope for "normalization" and those who favor the attempts to
develop the "Jewish identity" of the Jewish homeland. This internal
conflict shaped Israel's short history internally and externally. Ben
Guriion believed that within one generation there will be no single
Shomer-Shabbat Jew in Israel. A typical representative of the second
"cultural" generation of the secular Zionism is the retired supreme
court president, prof. Aron Barak, who led the process of converting
Israel to a "civil state". This is essentially the Israeli version of
the process of assimilation in other Jewish communities. This process is
about to be halted. The next generation of so called "secular" Israelis
is starting to search and adopt the Jewish identity  and the internal
cultural conflict will not last very long. The underground currents of
search for the Jewish identity and Jewish tradition by those who were
educated to be "normal" are already visible and growing every day.  At
the age of 65 we can see hints that the internal conflicts approach a
settlement, and that is the main key for a secure future. Despite all
the external and internal storms, despite the future of struggles and
wars, Israel is a stable successful state. It is strong economically and
militarily. It is the only piece of land in the Middle East where an
American president can have trustful and stable ally. Israel can survive
every threat if, and only if, the Jews of Israel would adhere to their
Jewish identity and consider it worth the sacrifices.


Elisha Haas

Professor and chairman of the interdisciplinary biophysics program at
Bar Ilan University, studying the second genetic code and the mode of
action of protein nano-machines by advanced laser based methods. Prof.
Haas served for 30 years as a reserve officer in the 9th brigade of the
IDF (Major res.). Was a company commander since the six days war and
during the Yom Kippur war and an operations officer at the latter
battles. In the late 1980's, together with Prof. A. Wachmann of the
Technion and Colonel (Res.) D. Rotenberg founded the association for
promotion of the "double column plan": a plan for comprehensive solution
of the problem of sovereignty and regional design of the Judea and
Samaria areas. Member and former chairman of the association "Professors
for strong and independent Israel" (PSI). Prof. Haas was visiting
Professor at Harvard U., MIT and university of Cambridge (UK).