16.07.2021, Moscow.
Efforts of the Jewish people to create the state of Israel were a fantastic example of the “art of the impossible”, but rejecting the “impossible”, and reducing Israeli politics only to dealing with everyday problems may cause Israel to perish, said political scientist, leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan in a new issue of the Meaning of the Game broadcast on the movement`s YouTube channel on July 9.
According to the political scientist, one should not reduce politics only to the “art of the possible”, as Otto von Bismarck defined its essenсe. Kurginyan noted that the creation of contemporary Israel was almost an impossible affair; the state was practically constructed in an empty place after the Jews existing for thousands of years without their own state.
“Representatives of The Jewish people, having been scattered over many countries, had been gathering for thousands of years, and they would say at a certain time an enigmatic, almost magical phrase ‘Next year in Jerusalem’, and then they decided to meet in 1949 according to the will of the Jewish people”, noted the political scientist.
He stressed that, for all concomitant expenses and conventions of this process, the creation of Israel, surrounded by a rather inhospitable environment was an “absolutely fantastic” action which required people, who would be up for the task.
“Thesepeopleexisted. They cultivated swampy and rotten lands using mattocks, subsequently making them into fertile fields, they starved, they fought, they burned under the sun, which they weren’t accustomed to, leaving Europe and other northern countries, they fought off their enemies, without having any advantages. All this was fantastic… This fantasy was the art of the ‘impossible’ It was the ‘impossible’ that became ‘possible’”, emphasized Kurginyan.
According to the analyst, Israel did not follow the path of mobilization and creation of an ascetic militarized state, which is necessary for survival within a hostile environment for its. “Now the art of the ‘possible’ is running the show in Israel. It ably resolves hundreds of particular situations, demonstrates talent in some details, and it will be successful for some period of time”, noted the politic.
But according to him, such a change of relation to politics is absolutely fatal for Israel. “One should not build the small Jewish state in a billion-strong Islamic field that hates you and set the same parameters as for a consumer society in Denmark, Switzerland, or Belgium… This is fatal. Thisissuicidal”, emphasized Kurginyan.
The political scientist noted that in conversations with Israeli politicians he often heard statements like “don’t bit off more than you can chew”, that the state’s politics is conditioned by certain parameters of existence – “people”, “international situations” and so on. But the history of the Israeli kibbutz shows a positive example of reliance on the “politics of the impossible” and contains a chance at survival for Israel, said Kurginyan.
“If the asceticism of those kibbutzim was perceived, and if the country was, in the end, built using a new ideological basis, like a military camp – on the basis of extreme mobilization, as a unitary castle of the crusader state, then maybe this crusader state would have held out strategically and constructed some other relations in the region… But what happened has happened”, emphasized Kurginyan.
“All of Israeli history since the early 1970s is a combination of a certain political triumph of the ‘possible’ and an absolute fiasco in the sphere of the ‘impossible’. This fiasco in the sphere of the ‘impossible’ will, as a result, give rise to certain processes in Israel, and the art of the ‘possible’ will run things into the ground sooner or later”, noted Kurginyan.
According to his opinion, at the moment of crisis it may prove that there will either be no people who could create the “impossible”, or it will turn out that these people are “totally and hopelessly fascist,” completed Kurginyan.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
