Dangerous messianic movements have been part of Jewish history for generations. The penultimate one was formed after the Six-Day War by politicians, writers and poets.
Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook and Twitter
It comprises people who have been hallucinating and daydreamers who have tried to convince the public that if we only returned to the 1967 borders, peace would emerge between Israel and the Palestinians.
In their vision, they saw wolves and lambs living together, and children joyfully playing with pythons and vipers. Senior defense officials joined hands with the killer blood-thirsty Palestinian leader. This was a result of intoxication and lack of basic understanding of the rules of the desert in the Middle East.
But, not unlike other messianic movements, the Left's messianic vision went up in smoke.
Subscribe to Israel Hayom's daily newsletter and never miss our top stories!
The Left's Palestinian partners made Israel quarrel with the Arab states and dragged the Arab Israelis into a very dangerous process of Palestinianization. A negligible amount of Israelis still refuses to heed the warning. The Left's melancholy has hit the Left's false-peace prophets particularly hard and they have recently begun to promote the vision of a binational state. A vast majority of Israelis have already sobered up to the messianic idea.
But it turns out that the Left is not the only one that suffers from surreal messianism. Since the 1990s, such a false messianic vision has also emerged on Right. Decent, dedicated and ideological individuals are certain that they know what God's plan is in detail and have been acting on his name.
A small but vocal group, which has already toppled a right-wing government in the past, is convinced that Israel can do whatever it wants without having to consider what the world thinks.
The biggest threat to Jewish existence is a misreading of reality. During the last century, we paid a terrible price for ignoring reality.
The Right truly believes that only Jews have full rights over their historic homeland, where our forefathers roamed well before the Palestinian nation was invented. But at the same time, the right-wing public is convinced that redemption is a step-by-step process. Those who want to accelerate history will soon find out that history is amazingly determined to stick to its own pace.
Statesmanship is the ability to act within what is practical, to seize the opportunity and always accept reality as it is. Israel does not rule the world, and you cannot ignore the powerful forces that we have to contend with.
Statesmanship is a game of chess in which one has to anticipate the rival's steps, it is not a game of backgammon. God does not roll the dice,
The Trump administration's peace vision opens the door for applying Israeli law on areas in Judea and Samaria. The plan is not perfect.
The United States under the leadership of President Donald Trump is our biggest friend and it has to take into account a whole host of factors.
Like Israel, it does not act in a vacuum. I have no doubt that the right-wing lawmakers will know how to spot the pluses in this plan, as well as the complex challenges it poses. Judea and Samaria are not the Golan Heights or east Jerusalem, both of which were annexed unilaterally.
We have to move forward with the plan and when time comes, we will have to deal with the obstacle posed by the plan's creation of a Palestinian state. The Right's leaders attacked Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion when he accepted the 1947 Partition Plan, but they were wrong.
For the sake of greater Israel, it is high noon that the messianic Right sobers up and face reality rather than avoid a decision. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that may never return. There are certain points during a nation's history that one must not pass up opportunities just because of pointless bitterness.
