The ancient division of Jewish homeland into Israel and Judea was not incidental, but a built-in feature of the Jewish way of life. For Jews to maintain the principles different from the rest of the world, we must remain separate, “the people that dwell alone.” Our principles do not run contrary to pagan ethics, but rather extend it a lot. Our principles, moreover, are not idealistic but perfectly suited for the life in the real world. Jews, therefore, do not need isolating ourselves in monastery-like communities, but may interact with other peoples to a considerable degree. Still, too much interaction leads to cultural assimilation.

In any economy, the biggest profits are generally made from dealing with faraway partners because economic differences increase with distance, and informational efficiency (knowledge of the local market) decreases. Successful economies are open to foreign trade. With foreign trade, however, comes foreign influence: Persian and Hellenic then, American now. Economically-minded strata of Jews are always open to foreign influence. Such Jews prosper and become attractive targets: for invaders then, for economic and therefore cultural colonization now. Affluent, content people are unwarlike, not zealous for their values, and quickly succumb to invasion or assimilation.

There is no rational sense for educated, productive Jews to stay in Israel while they can earn several times more in Gentile countries. A first generation or two of Israeli-born Jews would stay here out of habit, but habits erode quickly. American Jews similarly retained their Jewish identity for two generation after they lost Judaism, but universally assimilated in the third and fourth generations. Working for foreign markets, then working abroad, then emigrating permanently is the next two decades’ trend.
Underproductive Jews will remain in Israel: ultra-Orthodox Jews sponsored from abroad, Black and many Sephardi Jews, some others. Their state will be similar to Judea, a zealous poor state in the barren hills, lingering in existence for some time after Israel had gone. Like ancient Judea, the modern state will eventually become a protectorate or administrative autonomy under foreign rule.

Unless, of course, Jews heed the commandments and annex the Promised Land now.

Size worked against Israel. Huge United States provided its early pioneers with vast expanses of empty land to live free. By the time American bureaucracy has established control over the subjects, they grew used to freedom. Israel lacked that immense advantage of space. The early Israeli kibbutzniks were pioneers not inferior to American. The Israelis were tough and daring in peace and war.

But in minuscule Israel bureaucracy established itself quickly and bound citizens with legalese. The system usurped responsibility, but wasn’t responsible. The political echelon and the army bureaucratized and played according to rigid rules, and lost consistently. Now even soldiers are afraid to shoot Arabs, and there is no question of commanders performing independent operations. If the Yom Kippur war happened now, Ariel Sharon won’t violate the orders and break behind the Egyptian lines.

Talmudic tradition made Jews legal-minded. There is no way to limit bureaucratic expansion in the Jewish state. It must be Jewish, but not a state. The Bible teaches us that in the absence of righteous and rightful monarch, the best system of government is Shoftim: independent townships without legislative power, only with judges. In the modern political theory, that’s free market anarchism. It presumes minimalist legislation, diversified among jurisdictions. Sort of every town having its own speed limit, though in reality basic laws tend to converge among jurisdictions. Judea must adopt the biblical system of Shoftim.

Unless Jews break the state now, the state will break Jews.

Judea, the second Jewish state in the West Bank, is assured of last-resort Israeli protection. Even the Jews who dislike ultra-Orthodoxes won’t stand idle as Arabs butcher them. Israel would intervene to retain its claim of representing all Jews. Because of that claim, Israel will oppose establishing of Judea but, once she is established, extend her the protection. If Israel is not the only Jewish state, then at least a Big Jewish Brother.

Large war between Palestine or Jordan and Judea is unlikely for some years, and by that time Judea would build a sort of conventional army, possibly with nuclear bomb. Religious Jews, ruthless to Arab enemies, will efficiently counter low-level guerrilla attacks. Israeli last-resort protection is only deterrence, much like the nuclear deterrence. The world believes Jews stand for each other, and Arabs will find Israeli protection of Judea credible.

Judea won’t have major trouble with economy. Religious authority shouldn’t engage in economic regulation, though there is a danger of religious socialism. Judea can thrive as free market, zero customs duty economy. Religious government will likely misuse money supply and cause inflation; Judea will be better off using foreign currency, whether Israeli, American, or Swiss. Ultra-Orthodoxes accept extreme poverty and subsist on donations now; that state of things will continue in Judea. Most Orthodox Jews work productively. They can build a parasite economy in Judea thriving at the expense of overtaxed and over-regulated Israel like Mexico near the US. They can build solid low-end economy with agriculture and basic factories.

Theocracies historically survived longer than secular states because theological authority is closed to doubt and questioning by subjects. Secular Judea will eventually slither down into the Israeli leftism, US populist democracy, or apartheid. In public opinion, only religious state can exclude Arabs; secular states must be ethnic-blind. Secular government which imposes strict moral code will be dubbed fascist and ostracized. No doubt, great, honest rabbis won’t ascend to the helm of Judea, but even a rav like Ovadiah Yosef would rule Judea more sensibly than Olmert rules Israel.

Isolation is a means of Jewish existence. Anything not isolated, assimilates. If Jewish purpose is different from other nations’, then the Jewish life must be different. One cannot lead a different life while intermingling with others. Judaism is a full-day occupation. One cannot be a person like others (Gentiles) during the day, and remain Jewish at night in the private sphere. Moderately religious Jews and their atheist rabbis proclaim various "same-same but different" policies. A popular variety of such policy is economic interconnection along the ritual or demographic isolation. That won't work. People do business with trustworthy individuals. Only the predictable individuals are trustworthy. Only the individuals with readily comprehensible system of values are predictable. Throughout the history, Gentiles conducted with Jews simple business where it was enough to know of the Jews’ immediate honesty. Modern business transactions are complex and require full-fledged trust. Look at the difficulties American businessmen have doing business in China or Russia; mentality and value systems are too different for comfortable cooperation. Western (non-expatriate) investment in China remains minuscule compared to trans-Atlantic investment. A similar problem awaits the Jews if we want to be different and adhere to our own system of values. A religious Israel would be able to trade with other countries, but not engage in complex economic cooperation. No one likes odd partners.

Religious people cannot grow rich. Affluent, possibly, but not rich. Many rich hypocrites pose as religious, but they are assimilated, atheist, lack the fear of God, and conduct religion as a set of rites rather than live a religious life.

A common objection to the second Jewish state of Judea is its limited economic capacity. That is far from certain. A theocracy built around the laws of Torah would be a laissez-faire state with very low taxes and next to no regulation. Such a state can prosper in many areas from offshore banking to jewelry to tax haven. But the big question is, would Jews accept moderate economy in return for the religious and simply Jewish life? Judging by the millions of American Jews preferring assimilation and affluence of America to limited economic opportunities and Jewishness of Israel, few Jews would move to Judea.

But they will be the best Jews.

We’re tired. Tired of living in a Jewish state that condemns Jews for shooting Arabs in self-defense and sentences Jews to years in jail for drawing cartoons of Mohammad. Tired of listening to endless rationalizations of the suicidal urge, the peace process, the mantras of peaceful coexistence despite all evidence of implacable hostility of Arabs. Tired of panegyrics to ethnic-blind democracy and subsidizing Arabs and Slavs to breed to majority in the Jewish state. Tired fighting the totalitarian Israeli state praised by millions of well-wishers as bulwark of democracy; bulwark, yes, democracy, no. Tired of sitting in jail on political charges and often on no charges at all while other Jews carelessly live their lives. Tired of living in the Jewish state that spends more on Arabs or kibbutzim than on religious Jews but blames them for deficits. Tired of seeing the state we longed for for two millennia going down.

Totalitarian states cannot be reformed. After the “democratic” 1990s in Russia, the KGB retook power. Totalitarian states have to be destroyed and then possibly rebuilt. Israel has every attribute of totalitarianism: pervasive security apparatus staffed by a single – left - political group, government and oligarchic control over economy, brainwashing in schools and media, and prejudiced courts. It would take a full-blown revolution, soaked with blood of Arabs and Jewish leftists, to end the anti-Semitic state of Israel. What for? To have ultra-Orthodoxes vie with Orthodoxes over irrelevant regulations? To exchange leftism for religious hypocrisy? To have discredited rabbis run the country and ultra-Orthodoxes imagine themselves a privileged class of modern Levites? To allow rabbis the joy of being God's partners and inventing more of the irrelevant rules? Thanks, no. Not worth the blood of good Jews.

We cannot make Israel, permeated by leftists, Jews-by-grandfather, and Arabs – a Jewish state. The majority can accept a strong state, nationalist – but not a Jewish state simply because there are too few committed Jews around. We need a state of Judea. We cannot carve it out of the totalitarian Israel, and so prefer that Israel abandon the settlements to Palestinian state. We will carve Judea from Palestine.

We just want to be left alone. To teach our children as we think right. To observe the religion as we deem fit. To establish our own rules about welfare, gays, Arabs. To ban Peace Now members to the fourth generation. Anything.

Jewish strata differ on basic matters. Orthodox, Conservatives, and Reformists will never come to an agreement; Reformism is Judaism to some, atheism to others. Leftism is anti-Semitism for some, a morally feasible policy for others. Some praise living with Arabs, others despise it. That’s about values. No consensus is possible – and none is necessary. Jews lived historically in isolated communities. Pharisees did not intermingle with Karaites and even various Hasidic sects are contempt of each other. Israel, like other nation-states, wants to impose its will on all subjects in every detail. That’s unjustifiable. Government should only take the tasks which the communities cannot pursue. Education, admittance or exclusion of Arabs, public violation of commandments can be regulated on the level of communities rather than nationwide. Some communities might exclude Arabs and observe Sabbath, others would welcome gays and barbeque pork on Sabbath. There is no legal reason to enforce moral uniformity.

Judea should not be an ultra-Orthodox state. Basic tenets should include severe limitation on the admittance of non-Jews and inviolability of borders. Other than that, the communities of Judea should be free to set their own rules on religious observance, obligatory for a community's members. The communities could range from anarchist to ultra-Orthodox with every type of religious views in between. City boundaries protect every community from the culturally offensive behavior of outsiders.

That’s all we ask for: leave us alone. Continue with your socialist state, if you like, just let us live as we wish. To work our orchards, educate our children, enjoy our communities. We don’t even want to vote: elect olmerts for yourself. We accept any jurisdiction: abandon our townships to Palestinians and we will live as dhimmi under Abu Mazen. Big leftist Israel or Great Islamic Palestine, makes no difference to us.

Leave us alone.

Our real problem is Jews, not Arabs. Palestinian guerrillas are nuisance; they cannot defeat the Jewish state. Jews can. Israel originally attracted only Jews with pioneer mentality who overcame barriers to enter the land. Even the post-WWII aliyah was zealous: Jews who preferred safety, stayed in Europe. Brainwashing in Israeli schools and huge economically motivated Russian aliyah of 1980-90s turned Israel into a ghetto. Most Jews are still passively normal: they want a state without Arabs, favor overwhelming reprisals, detest Arabs, and respect religiosity. That’s not enough: passively normal Jews cannot counter the active Left. Leftists come to power on the heels of massive propaganda and Arab votes, not supported by Jewish majority, but only the result matters: leftists reign. Actively normal right wing Jews cannot hope to change the balance in Israel, short of a major civil war – not an unwelcome prospect. For now, Jewish normalcy is doomed in Tel Aviv and the beachside Israel. Normal Jews can build a normal Jewish state only in leftist-free areas – the settlements.

Instead of trying to change Israeli politics, normal Jews should develop autonomy of settlements with the goal of eventually expanding the autonomy into the state of Judea – at Arab expense.

Judea has to be moderately religious. Israeli leftists resent the religious Jews, accept their de facto autonomy, and many would gladly accept their exodus, though others would want to oppress the religious Jews in Israel. The world would protest a second Jewish secular state, but not a religious entity akin to the Vatican. Arabs and Israeli police alike would find it harder to attack Jewish refugees with hair locks than secular “mad settlers.” The religious Judea would be assured of evangelical support and the Vatican would concur.

Judea is a test ground for ultra-liberal society. A religious state won’t concern itself with earthly matters, thus Judea will be a free society. Judaism includes many sects: several strains of Orthodox and ultra-Orthodox, conservative, reform, reconstructionist, Karaite, and others. Atheist nationalist Jews will move to Judea from leftist Israel. Judea can only accommodate them by allowing communities full administrative autonomy, even significant legislative autonomy. Jews like Noar Gvaot who now live nomadic life on hilltops will opt for nearly anarchic communities while haredim will impose minute regulation in their towns.

The biblical system of autonomous communities governed by judges is the only viable political framework for Judea.

According to the Law of Return, every Jew has a right to live in Israel, with or without its citizenship, for any period of time. Israel won't change the law of return to punish the settlers at least because the policy is not to touch it. Any revision of the law cannot avoid addressing the return of the Arabs demanded by the extreme left.

Israeli banking system will continue to serve Judeans as it serves other foreigners. Israel is unlikely to impose sanctions on Judea, and even then Judea could rely on foreign and Internet banks. Eventually, Judea will have its own bank offices. Deregulated economy will draw investment and financial infrastructure.

Local workers, such as teachers will have to rely on local incomes. Parents will pay for schools, and foreign donors will help. The settlers will negotiate tax repatriation agreement, such as the one enjoyed by Palestinians. But ultimately the Jews of Judea will have to become self-sufficient, if they want a state of their own. They won't be poorer than Israelis thirty years ago. Ancient Judea was poorer than Israel. Judea can position herself as a tax haven for Israelis, sort of San Marino.

Introduction of avodah ivrit (Made by Jews) label will go a long way toward creating Judean economy. The polite Israelis cannot ask their grocers whether the produce is grown by Jews or Arabs, but will support Judean produce once it is clearly marked. Leftists, too, might support a campaign which aims at making Jews a nation of workers. Besides, leftists hate Arabs no less than the right-wing Jews do.

Palestine so far lacks a law that restricts land sales. The earlier Jordanian law banned land sales to Israelis rather than the Jews. After peace treaty with Israel, Jordan barred all non-Arab citizens from controlling the land in the kingdom. Palestine will adopt a similar approach. Here comes the Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons. It is a so integral part of the international law that Palestine won’t be able to breach the convention, whether Palestine signs it or not. Article 13 – stateless people enjoy same legal status as aliens generally; stateless Jews will have property rights in Palestine on par with non-Palestinian Arabs. Article 26 provides for the freedom of movement within the host state; Jews can settle anywhere, including their current places of residence. To evict stateless refugees is impossible. Palestine depends on the EU and US for aid, and won’t grossly violate a basic human rights convention. For the same reason, Palestine won’t cut water, electricity, and road access to the settlements. Besieged Jewish villagers would look too good on the TV screens in America. Israeli public opinion will switch to supporting Jewish villagers if Arabs try to evict them. Israelis accept the IDF, but not the Arabs evicting Jewish settlers.

Living in stateless status under Palestinian jurisdiction is a temporary solution. The settlers shrink from fighting Israeli police, and need time to gather the will to fight the Palestinians. Jews also need time to accumulate weapons. That task is impossible to carry out on a meaningful scale while Shabak reigns in the settlements. Ultimately, Jews stay in the settlements because fighting Palestine to establish Judea is easier than carving Judea out of Israel. Thus, yes, we must be prepared to fight: a weak Palestine rather than strong Israel, as stateless Jews defending themselves against Arab attacks rather than Israeli occupiers. Stateless Jewish existence under Arab control won’t last long: though many settlers would gladly accept dhimmitude in return for continuing living in their houses and religious autonomy, nationalist Palestinians have outlived the Islamic sanction of dhimmitude. Two or three years divide mass abandoning of Israeli citizenship from the creation of the State of Judea.

Jews need to reject the existing Council of Settlements, the government’s quisling. Instead, settlers should elect the council by direct vote. The act of voting will accord the new council a parliament-like status. The council’s executive office will evolve into the government of Judea. Settlers should also elect a chief rabbi who will act as president of Judea. Kahane once said, “Plan for elections is a guarantee of a Palestinian state.” So is the plan for election in the settlements a guarantee of Judea.

The campaign to abandon Israeli citizenship should not replace the attempts to change Israeli course. Realistically, however, Israeli course could only be changed through revolt. Leftists and Arabs form electoral majority and vote coherently. Israelis resigned to have ethnic-blind atheist state. Palestinians de facto created their state and could announce it any moment without Israeli approval. Most countries will recognize independent Palestine, and Israel will eventually follow the suit. Revolt is a viable option but very strong Shabak infiltrates anti-government organizations quickly, and subservient courts sentence Jewish suspects on no evidence. Revolutionaries in other countries faced similar problems, though to a lesser degree than in small, interconnected, totalitarian Israel. Few revolutions succeeded. Revolt is an option, but uncertain option.

While striving to change Israel by any means, Jews must prepare for the worst. If a Palestinian state is created and Israel continues down its leftist-oligarchic path, Jews need an exit strategy. First, we must be able to stay in Judea and Samaria. Second, we need a realistic option to attain autonomy or sovereignty. Jews will find it easier to confront Palestinian state than Israel. Palestinian security is weaker than Israeli, especially in terms of infiltrating Jewish organizations. Many Jews shrink from shooting other Jews, even the leftists, but have no problem opposing hostile Arabs. World opinion will side with the leftists in case of right-wing Jewish revolt, but many Gentiles and most foreign Jews will side with the Jews who revolted against Arabs.
Jews who abandon Israeli citizenship could stay in Palestine as stateless people. They are citizens of no state, and Palestinian government could evict them nowhere. Israel cannot pull stateless Jews out of the settlements because of the lack of jurisdiction. The world cannot object to stateless Jews remaining in Palestine, just like the Arabs live in Israel.

Once the Jews anchor themselves in Palestine, conflicts with Arabs will follow. With no Arabs killed by the IDF, world media will switch to showing Jewish villagers killed by the Arabs. Palestinian state will fail and slip into violence. Jews will expand security arrangements, increase autonomy of their villages, and slowly establish a network of refugee camps which is a state in all but name. Then we will only need to proclaim independence and connect the townships into a state of Judea.

The best crime is a legal one that uses loopholes. Abandoning Israeli citizenship is a loophole neither Israel nor the Palestinians can do anything about. They will know our next moves and still could not counteract them. In a couple of years, Jews can establish a state of Judea in Palestine and eventually push Arabs from the entire Judea and Samaria with Hebron-like attitude.

Palestinian state will certainly be created. Israel will either dismantle Jewish settlements or allow her Jews to continue living in Palestine, if they wish to. Then the Palestinian mob and terrorists will do the job of Israeli police, and evict the settlers. Given tactical difficulties of forcefully evicting a quarter million hardened Jews from the settlements and paying compensations for their housing, Israeli government could prefer stay-if-you-wish scenario, and leave the right-wing Jews, unwelcome in Israel, behind the enemy's lines. Palestine only needs do adopt a law that prohibits foreign ownership of real estate or limit the term of visas issued to Israelis to drive the settlers out of Palestine. Abandoning Israeli citizenship and temporarily accepting refugee status in Palestine before thrusting to form Judea is the only option for Jews to stay in the territories.

Israel only bans its citizens from the settlements, not Arabs or foreigners. Fearsome Israeli settlers should become stateless Jewish refugees and apply for UNRWA protection, to the very agency that maintains Palestinian refugee camps. Palestinian refugee camps existed for decades, and so could Jewish. Israel cannot expel stateless Jewish refugees from the settlements because they refuse to move to another state, Israel. It cannot destroy their homes in settlements because they have nowhere to go. Israel can legislate nothing about stateless people who live on the land Israel recognizes as foreign. Whatever flimsy legal pretext Israel had for removing its citizens from Palestine doesn’t apply to non-citizens.

Jewish settlements automatically become refugee camps, and the Jewish property there protected under the Israeli or Palestinian international obligations toward refugees. Settlers could renounce Israeli citizenship even before Israeli government transfers their land to Palestinians and continue to live there because the Jews are automatically allowed Israeli residence regardless of citizenship.

Israel is a golem of clay. It subsists on myths. Its central myth is about being a Jewish state. That legacy allows Israel to receive money, tolerance, goodwill, and support. Hundreds of thousands of Jews willingly stripping themselves of Israeli citizenship will undermine Israeli claim of a Jewish state. Jews prefer to live in refugee camps under Arab jurisdiction rather than in leftist, defeatist, anti-Semitic Israel – now that’s a scandal that will shatter the golem.

It took Sharon’s determination to raze Gush Katif. Every candidate for prime minister is way weaker than Sharon, but the government has to evict twenty times more Jews than in Gush Katif. Army, demoralized by Lebanon beside other failures, and police beset by corruption allegations are not reliable as two years ago. Gush Katif proved a failure in terms of peace process, and security forces might not be enthusiastic about large-scale eviction. Mass campaign of abandoning Israeli citizenship might force the government to hold on to Judea and Samaria.

If Israel retreats from the territories, the army will, officially or otherwise, leave settlers some weapons. Immediately after the threat of Israeli police raids goes away along with Israel, settlers can buy automatic weapons from Arabs – cheaper than they currently pay for pistols in Israeli shops. Palestinians won’t attack stateless Jews’ settlements with artillery, but only with light firearms up to RPG’s. The settlers can counter that. Israel won’t shrink from the last-resort protection of fellow Jews. The British scenario, inciting Arab attacks on Jews to prove the Jews are incapable of forming a state, is an option only to an extent. Israel will surely try it to remove settlers’ competition to its role as the only legitimate Jewish state, but once the efforts to push out the settlers fail, Israeli public opinion will side with fellow – if religious – Jews against the Arab enemy. Attacks on Jewish settlements will endanger PLO-Hamas finances because the major donors, EU and US will decry the attacks at least rhetorically. In the worst-case scenario, settlers – as any Jews – could always and immediately receive Israeli citizenship and move behind the Green Line.

As any Jews, settlers are entitled to live and work in Israel. Though stateless, they retain Israeli employment opportunities and therefore healthcare benefits and pension.

Israeli law doesn’t establish straightforward procedure for abandoning citizenship voluntarily. Jews can publicly tear Israeli passports to perform an act of expatriation.

How odd is to prefer Arab jurisdiction to Israeli one? Jews never had a state in recorded history; semi-mythical monarchy ended in the sixth century B.C.E. Afterwards, Jews enjoyed merely administrative autonomy, often less than Islam offers to dhimmi. Still, Jews thrived religiously and economically. Leftist Israel where Arabs breed to become a majority is a dead end; stateless autonomy under Palestinian rule is a springboard toward Judea.

Living in the territories under whosever jurisdiction in dhimmi status is more Jewish than in the socialist Israel. UNRWA will provide Jewish refugees with better protection than Israeli police that evicts them. Israel will find it harder to oppress non-citizens in the foreign land than Israeli citizens. Palestinian attacks on stateless Jewish refugees sound different than on Israeli settlers. Israel can evict its citizens from government-sponsored settlements with compensation, but cannot force stateless refugees of Jewish origin out of their only homes without major international scandal. By abandoning Israeli citizenship, settlers change from oppressors into oppressed. Israeli government establishes its legitimacy by claiming to represent all Jews; Jews who abandon Israeli citizenship destroy credibility of Israeli ruling clique, discredit its claim to power. And the good thing, the Jews could reclaim Israeli citizenship if things turn sour.

UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, article 1: refugee is "a person who… has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his… political opinion…." Jewish settlers express racist views punishable in Israel which are not specifically "acts contrary to principles of the UN" in the sense of article 1.F.c. Palestinian state will sign the convention because of the large number of Palestinian refugees, and even if it doesn't, Jews there could still claim refugee rights common in the international law. Such rights include property ownership in any place (Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons, articles 13, 26) and the right of association (article 15). Jewish refugees need not a permission to enter Palestine (art. 31).