Out of political action

"Isolation is that impasse into which men are driven when the political sphere of their lives, where they act together in the pursuit of a common concern, is destroyed." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 474). 

In Israel people have cultivated their sense of solidarity in the social realm but they have extended that sense of solidarity neither in the commercial nor in the political realm. 

Israelites have talked themselves out of political action because they deny the possibility, in the face of commerce or religion, of a political sphere where they can work in common purpose. Israelites relate to each other in the personal or in the religious spheres but they cannot define themselves in terms of public, political intentions. 

Honor, virtue, and the building of a common, political space – these are the pathways to sovereignty for the Jewish people.