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To the Betar-ist perspective, through the precise arrangement of the material to highlight the most complex problems involved in each and every tenet. Thus, for example, the material concentrated around the tenet of Zion unfolds before us the entire problematics of political, programmatic, and social Zionism; Had-Nes – our war against spiritual and political capitalism, against "white" and "red" assimilation, against the class-based legion; Ivriya – the value and command of our national language in the process of reviving the people and the homeland; Magen – the demand for the cultivation of the Hebrew youth to prepare, in the psychological and practical sense, for the enterprise of conquering the homeland, for the establishment of an "Iron Wall" against all who would assail the independence of the spirit of the life of a free people, and to destroy once and for all the wall of "shelter-seeking Jewry" that they have erected around us, etc., etc.

The conditions of the time are what caused the reduction of the scope; they also forced us to forgo the chapters on the background of the history of Betar and its organizational structure. Also not included is the concluding chapter on the heroic stand of Betar as the fulfillment of its ideas, with its sacrifices and its achievements.

Our thanks are given to the officers of the leadership, B. Lubotzky and A. Ramba, who went over the material and provided their useful comments.

11th of Adar II, 5703.