The Doctrine of Beitar

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another: to create the "splendor," the "ant," or the "creation" of the Jewish "nation." And indeed, such a sacred need is urgent because the Jewish people of today are not "healthy," and are decrepit and not normal. The life of the Diaspora in its full scope prevents us from educating healthy and normal citizens.

In thousands of years of exile, the Jewish people ceased to focus its collective will on one primary and principal function; it stopped acting as one whole and single nation, it refrained from defending its life with a weapon in hand when danger hovered over its head, and it grew accustomed to passivity and forgot its enterprises, the direction of freedom or order. Disorganization and negligence became its daily bread in its private life as in its public life. Therefore, the Beitar member marches like one ascending a mountain, and a long time will pass until he reaches his desired destination. And a Beitar member, in his ways and his conduct, [strives] toward his desired destination, though his "desired destination" is lofty and noble, and it is a good sign for a Beitar member that he always remembers it and strives to reach it, even if only in slow steps.

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