The Doctrine of Beitar

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In my humble opinion, I do not believe that anyone, other than the party's acquaintances, would dispute this.

This is and in this will always be the end of an ideological style. For, with a certain emphasis, because the first ideal—the original one—is not "pretty" enough, one takes the trouble to formulate it and to powder it, with an element of another aspiration—they have already recognized that other distinguished things are in a greater and broader recognition, prettier and more ancient, and then they begin to apologize, to ask for forgiveness, to emphasize the trivial, "additive" elements from the mixed worldview—until they reach a decision, and it is precisely the straightforward and logical part that believes it must be the first to declare that if the second ideal is prettier and greater, then one must align with it without any conditions, because two ideals are, after all, an absurdity.

And indeed the matter is true: two ideals are an absurdity, just as two gods, just as two altars in one sanctuary—are not possible. We do not wish to insult anyone, but a soul that is capable of swallowing two ideals and remaining content with it—is an inferior soul. A whole soul can only be monolithic. Truthfully—an ideal has no plural form at all. A healthy heart, in which the ideal lives—has no room for a second. If Zionism is an ideal, then there is no room left in it for anything else that is independent; for an easy mixture, a snob's arms and a balance could wrap trivialities around it, or a "complement," or some sort of "combination."

The ideal rejects all that is outside of it, no matter how "pure and fine" the other things may be, and all the more so since it has no claim that what comes from its totality is not beautiful and holy. Perhaps Socialism is truly the sprouting of justice /I for one do not believe this/, but let it be so, it does not pertain to the matter! When we waged our war amongst our youth against assimilation, we did not doubt for a moment that the national values of other peoples, which their fortune willed them to adopt, are pure and beautiful, perhaps no less and perhaps even more sublime than our own, and yet we demanded of them: distance yourself from serving every beauty, except for that uniqueness that is Jewish. And if this thing comes to you with difficulty, because you truly love the foreign beauty—then it is precisely then that you can show whether your soul is whole or inferior. For to a whole soul, the work for the ideal...