Ancient Israel was built on the singular notion of God's bounty and abundance as the fundamental predicate of the Israelite state. Modern Israel is built on the singular notion of anti-Semitic threat and insecurity as the fundamental predicate of the Israelite state. Modern Israel is predicated on the ideological negation of ancient Israel.
By framing its founding in terms of threat and insecurity Zionism defines the State of Israel as radically materialist and fundamentally anti-God. The ancient Israelite God represents Himself as the One Who extracted Israel from the land of Egypt and the house of bondage. That self-definition was not only with respect to the material extraction from servitude but with respect also to a spiritual extraction from a mindset of servility. YHWH's Decalogical objective was to extract Israel's sons from their diaspora mentality and predilections. For modern Israel to do God's work it must extract itself from its self-understanding as being eternally under existential threat and instead to deliver itself to the notion that its existence depends crucially on God's providential care.
Deuteronomy 11:10-13 is not only about Israel as the locus of non-resource curse, it is also about Israel as the locus of non-anti-Semitism. The belief in the power of anti-Semitism is the modern day Jew's form of God-denial. The most secular thing the Jew can do is to see the fundamental Jewish condition in terms of scarcity and threat. Believing in God is believing in His providence and is about living one's life, be it individually or collectively, according to the expectation of His bounty and security.
The Holocaust Zionist understands the Jewish people as chosen not by God but by the anti-Semites as the pariah people and Israel as the pariah state. The Arabs are the new Nazis not only because they strive to eradicate the Jewish people but also because their rejection of Israel from the region has forced onto Israel the notion of the Holocaust as the definitive existential fact.
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