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He only wants to arrange the combinations with a second ideal. He says: "Even before, I would want to see my people fortified in the Land of Israel, or at the very least, at the beginning of this fortification, and after that..." To such a person, one must answer with the same intention that he asks: here there is no "before," here there is only either/or. For a goal, there can only be one ideal; and if it has two sides, there is no possibility of doing anything positive first, and even more so: it is worse to fight directly against the second, since it interferes with the first.

The discussion here is not about "theoretical views." An educated man usually has several "views" on several important matters. He can be a pacifist, he can be a proponent of internationalism; he can admire the Arab people and wish for the Arabs a federation, extending from our land to Mesopotamia; he can admire England and want India to remain British, or, conversely, hate England and aspire for the liberation of India from English influence. He can oppose the existing moral regime and be fond of socialism for good and for right. He can even think that the communist system is more suitable for the realization of socialism than social-democracy. You can find very serious people, deep thinkers, who advocate all of these views, not just one of them but several of them, at once, and perhaps even a few more, philosophical or "idealistic" or religious. But they are not "views," nor are they "idealism." By the name "ideal" we call that view for which one works; and by this it is tested; in any case where there is a clash between the ideal and one of the other views, one obeys the first and sacrifices the second.

Every movement knows in its conscience that this happens often, especially in all the movements that have a "revolutionary" character. Their supporters are, for the most part, opponents in principle of bloody wars, but, they do not take the principle into account when the ideal demands it. Garibaldi was one of the first dreamers of a league of nations, and he said: "An end to all wars," but he fought all his days, ready and willing.