The Doctrine of Beitar

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This historical point-of-view creates an international all-front, behind which, behind which is the duty imposed upon them to defend not England, but the Jews; that is: a people—whose ideals will cause it to defy the barbarian.

Besides this, a newspaper arriving to him from England tells him thus: that Zionism sprouts completely unjust demands; that England's policy in general has in it an element of the Arabs' outrageous talk; that the entire Eretz-Israeli conflict is hatred; that England was brought by the Jews into an enterprise that has no basis in reality; that were it not for Zionism, England could have left Eretz-Yisrael or remained in it with the sympathy of the country's inhabitants...

He reads these things day after day, because the major press, leaning mainly towards conservatism, engages in anti-Zionist propaganda with great enthusiasm; and even if we say that sometimes things reach him which present our own point-of-view—indeed, based on my experience I can say that this assumption is far from being accepted by the heart, sir; from where will the matter come to foreigners from any source, or "it is a screen for them to know how to handle you on the side," a mask, in this very complicated question.

In the best-case scenario, such a "gentleman" will say to himself that neither the Jews nor the Arabs concern him, and all the exotic brawls in the casbahs between them—are loathsome to him, but the aggravated situation is caused by a "bad spirit"...

The garrison in Eretz-Yisrael will not be able to serve as a true defense for Jewish thought, unless it is composed mostly of Jewish soldiers. Secondly, only under this condition is the reform of all government supervision in Eretz-Yisrael possible—a reform which is necessary on the path to the final shattering of the Mandate, first and foremost for the struggle and for broad Aliyah. Just as we cannot demand from England that it support Zionism with money, so we cannot demand