The Doctrine of Beitar

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Let my hand burn for You, my God, against the snare, Let my hand burn for all against affliction, But more than the praise of my days, the declaration, If I forget Shmuel-your-creature.

May Your name be great to be praised – Generation after generation, for so it is also.

1. In the days of immigrant "status".

I do not say that it is the obligation of every artist to be specifically secular, or Zionist, or even a Jewish patriot. Like all wisdoms, "Wisdom" is all-encompassing, and it is what it is. But if you are already a Zionist – then for the sake of its name not being desecrated – it is forbidden for him to be carried away by stagnation.

There is nothing that will spoil Zionism and corrupt its flourishing more than conservatism, that which stands still. The English administration is locking the gates of the Land – this happens from the outside, from a national imperative. In such cases among other peoples, leadership dictates provocation, as a stratagem, by uniting forces and the patriotic will for an outburst of enthusiasm and devotion. Here the declaration is dim: today we are cut off even more than before, (and we are a remnant in crumbs) – why is it the opposite with us? And is it not so: even without the Englishman – even if we were all to blame for this crisis, which led to the need, or by the hands of Tuchi, to delay the immigrant for a number of years – even in this case, I no longer see any basis for us to give the mountains of Zion a writ of divorce. To build a land in the twentieth century – this is a difficult thing in general, unimaginably more difficult than in previous times. First of all,