THIS IS WHY’ EUROPE HAS NO ROOTS “JUDEO-CHRISTIAN” BUT ONLY CHRISTIAN ROOTS AND TRADITION
Of Adriano Scianca
Israel? It is the "bulwark of the West". How many times have we read it, even these days, especially on the right, even among the visitors of this site. They are therefore defending “the West”, Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinians? E, above all, they are defending us too? It's important to ask yourself this, because if the Jewish State has always divided public opinion on the basis of often pre-political criteria and if the objections raised against it are often of a moral nature, then they exist, more coldly, of the political categories that should be drawn upon to bring the issue back to less slippery terrain.
Ora, that Europeans use the category of the West to define themselves is in itself rather paradoxical if one only considers that the very concept of the West was explicitly created in an anti-European key. In practice, Europeans today claim with passionate fervor belonging to a community of values ​​that was created precisely to exclude them and which has partly accepted them within itself, as vassals, except that they were defeated in a world war. For their part, Americans famously began to conceive of themselves as the West not to incorporate Europe into a broader Atlantic context, but to underline the firm break with everything that the Old Continent represented. It was President Thomas Jefferson who stated that America represents a "separate hemisphere", evoking a meridian - more moral than geographical - to separate the land where "the lamb and the lion will live in peace with each other" from corrupt Europe and its vices. In reality he was merely repeating Washington's teachings, that in 1793 he had already declared: “I am sure that the will of the United States is to have nothing to do with the intrigues and political disputes of the European nations”. President Monroe expressed the same concept when enunciating his famous theory aimed at excluding any European intervention in the New Continent (essentially “America for the Americans”). In fact, the meridian evoked by Jefferson was supposed to separate Good and Evil, the kingdom of equality and freedom from the land of hierarchy and oppression. Ora, mind you America believed it could embody this rejection of Europe by electing itself the Promised Land, that is, the New Israel based on membership (OR BETTER, AMERICANIST INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLICAL STATEMENT, N.D.R.) as stringent as possible with the biblical dictate.
That Israel was later easily included in this West, Therefore, and in a prominent position, precisely as an eastern outpost, it's not surprising. After all, the Jewish state itself, net of the controversies over the legitimacy of its birth and its work, was born with an ambiguous relationship with European tradition. If on the one hand Zionism, or at least its secular components, they were inspired by nationalisms (but also to colonialism) Europeans, if its cultural elites brought the great debates of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European culture to the new State – as well, However, always reread in a Jewish key -, at the same time, the crucial role of the Holocaust in the foundation of the new State must always be kept in mind. Which, to be precise, it was also born as a reaction and response to European anti-Judaism, by Jews fleeing Europe, who feel they have to find their common home elsewhere. And within Israeli society itself, If anything, it is Tel Aviv that represents the city most similar to current European standards in terms of secularism, nightlife etc, whereas Jerusalem instead drags with it the consequences of an absolutely peculiar prophetic tradition and bigotry. The American-Israeli West which in recent days is celebrating its own bloody glories around the symbolic centrality of Jerusalem is therefore a "community of values" with a messianic traction that contemplates us Europeans little or not at all, it is something from which we are excluded, or in which we are included only as a marginal component, inessential, accepted as long as it doesn't bother you, who stays in a corner always and only saying yes, since when she doesn't do it she can always be accused of wanting the gas chambers back. Of whatever the "outpost" might be, Therefore, Israel is certainly not fighting our war, nor did the Israelis ever think of doing so.
Source: https://www.ilprimatonazionale.it/cultura/davvero-dovremmo-difendere-israele-baluardo-occidente-85550/