War defines the political as the enemy’s proper space

Evidence

The movement of the enemy thus has to be distinguished from that of the other who comes from afar, the neighbor or prochain who, before the subject, comes. Symmetrically opposed-rather than asymmetrically approaching-the enemy departs and vanishes, which is to say that the enemy also remains as departing and vanishing. The space within which this movement takes place is defined by Levinas as the space of the political, as the space of war. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 88