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One Banner / "Monism"

Behold, this is the basis of the entire Jewish worldview, upon which the entire Betar worldview is founded: to create the state of the Jews, meaning a state with a Jewish majority on both banks of the Jordan. The genius and glory of Betar is its "monism," and it is what distinguishes it from other Jewish youth organizations:

Betar means: a generation that has dedicated its life only to this one ideal of creating the Jewish state and knows no other ideals before it.

This does not mean that the Betari should be blind to the importance or even the greatness of other proprietary ideas, which in our time excite so many multitudes of humanity.

The opposite is true: the Betari must be a person with open eyes, a clear mind, and a broad heart, a person who knows how to relate with great respect to all the lofty aspirations of his contemporaries; especially since the source of these aspirations is found in Judaism — such as pacifism or, especially, the fight for social justice: both stem from our Tanakh, and our hope is strong that it is precisely the Jewish state that will teach the world the true path to world peace and social justice.

However, before all else, the Jewish people must establish their state, and this task is so difficult and so complex that it demands all the strength of an entire generation — and perhaps even more than one generation, and therefore the entire current generation of Jewish youth must dedicate itself entirely to the one task: all other ideas, with all their beauty and nobility, are permitted to influence us as long as they do not interfere with our work of building the Jewish state.

The moment one of these ideas begins to be a stumbling block / even in an indirect way! / on the path to establishing the Jewish state, we must sacrifice it without mercy for the sake of the Jewish ideal. For we can have many i d e a s, and we can relate to all of them with the greatest admiration; but the I D E A L, there can be only one, and every other idea must bow its head before it, and it is forbidden and not—