For Hobbes the enemy founds and abolishes history by persisting as having been here

Evidence

In the space of his emergence from the night of our natural ignorance, in his withdrawal from conceptualization into the hypothetical and confused past of the state of nature, the enemy persists as having been here. This persistence, at once founds and abolishes a history, establishing and canceling the question of the enemy as requiring an answer, as demanding a response and responsibility. Having been here, the enemy is already constituted as an object of knowledge, agent or object of a violence that may or may not have become actualized, much less determined as war or battle, as psychological or social. Yet what can only be indicated here is that, as he draws away, the enemy also remains, and he remains to be read. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 373