Unpopular opinion: The real challenge of the people of Israel today is not with the Arab world but with the Western world.
In simpler words: Mansour Abbas bothers me less than Yair Lapid.
Immediately the explanation.
We are in the midst of the affair of the book of Genesis, which describes the formation of the people of Israel.
It begins with a family of two people, Abraham and Sarah, who are commanded by God to go "from their land, from their homeland and from their father's house" to the land that God commands them to reach.
Not only a promised land, but especially a commanded land.
By virtue of this divine commandment, Abraham arrives in the land of Canaan, where his son Ishmael is born to him and his son continues his journey, Isaac.
Isaac also had two children, Esau and Jacob.
And the twelve tribes that form the basis of the people of Israel are born of Jacob-Israel.
In a groundbreaking article called "Ishmael's Brother and Esau's Brother," Rabbi Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi describes the nature of the rivalry between Yitzchak and Ishmael and between Yaakov and Esau.
He analyzes the two conflicts between the descendants of Esau (the Christian-Western world) and the descendants of Ishmael (the Muslim world) and the people of Israel.
The Jews have a political conflict with the Muslims, it can be defined geographically.
According to the sources, the rivalry between Judaism and Islam is about the division of the land, not about the very fact of being "Israel."
It does not touch the sky but is here, on earth.
On the other hand, the Christian-Western world and the people of Israel have a rivalry of identity, of essence, a rivalry that touches heaven, values, theology, morality.
The current Israeli government is entering this complexity.
A government in which the flag bearers of Jewish identity and essence are absent: the traditional, the national-religious (or at least some of them more conservative) and the ultra-Orthodox.
Those who define themselves first as Jews and then as Israelis.
In this government the Foreign Minister turned anti-Semitism into a meaningless word and a collective name for any hatred of the other, in the best neo-liberal cliché, while erasing the uniqueness of our history. This government decided to appoint the head of the committee dealing with "Jewish religious services" MK Yulia Malinowski of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, who systematically mocks the Torah of Israel, and recently said "we will go into their" mother-mother "about the rabbinate. This is a government that transfers millions of shekels to Reform Judaism, but has not found a budgetary source to fund projects related to the heritage of Spanish Jewry and Islamic countries.
No wonder, then, that instinctively, those in opposition today understand that the real danger concerns heaven and not earth.
What is at stake today is the future of the State of Israel as a Jewish state.
What does Yair Lapid want to tell us when he says that his Judaism "does not begin with the Ten Commandments, but with God telling Abraham to 'go to your land and your homeland'" (the Freudian error - originally)?
What is his purpose when he empties Judaism of the Ten Commandments and on the way another 603 commandments?
This is Yair Lapid's version of "A People Like All Nations."
Its goal is to force Israel to join the Western Progressive Coalition.
Many Jews tried this before him and failed.
His own mission will not succeed either.
