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Jabontinsky: EARLY ZIONIST LEADER/founder of Revisionist Zionism “This is a 5 minute read”
“The Iron Wall (We and the Arabs)” by Ze’ev/Vladimir Jabotinsky, the 1923 essay, the Jabotinsky Institute provides a free English PDF. The Institute’s archive identifies it as Jabotinsky’s article first published on November 4, 1923.
Download “The Iron Wall” — free PDF from the Jabotinsky Institute
This is the essay itself rather than a later book about Jabotinsky’s “Iron Wall” doctrine. The Institute also has archival material combining “The Iron Wall” and “The Ethics of the Iron Wall,” its follow-up essay.
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BETAR was the youth movement of Javontinsky’s Revisionist Zionism. It emerged in Riga, Latvia, in 1923, from a group organized by Aharon Propes after Jabotinsky addressed local Jewish youth. Jabotinsky became its ideological leader and later the head of World Betar. Betar emphasized nationalism, discipline, uniforms, physical training, self-defense, and military preparedness. The IDF itself wasn’t created until 1948. Betar did, however, become an important recruiting and ideological base for the Revisionist underground, especially the Irgun, some of whose members later entered the IDF.
Who was Jabotinsky?
Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky (1880–1940) was a major early Zionist leader and the founder of Revisionist Zionism, a more nationalist and militant alternative to the mainstream Labor Zionism of his era. He advocated mass Jewish immigration to Palestine, Jewish self-defense, and the eventual creation of a Jewish state with a strong military capacity. In his influential 1923 essay The Iron Wall, Jabotinsky argued that Palestinian Arabs would naturally resist Zionist settlement and that Zionism could succeed only behind an “iron wall” of military strength until Arab leaders accepted the permanence of a Jewish national home. Although he died eight years before Israel was established in 1948 and therefore did not directly participate in its creation, his ideas strongly influenced the Revisionist movement, the Irgun underground organization, and later Israel’s political right, particularly Menachem Begin and the tradition that eventually produced the Likud party.
Two Jewish guys interview…How Daniel was brought up as a “settler” in Efrat, Israel: VERY REAL & INFORMATIVE
Daniel Klein was born and raised in Efrat, one of the largest religious Zionist settlements in the occupied West Bank. His family helped build the settlement movement, and he grew up immersed in its schools, institutions, theology, politics, and culture before serving as an IDF tank commander. In this conversation, Daniel shares an insider’s account of life inside the religious Zionist world, the psychology of belief, the realities of the settlement project, and how Zionism can present a different face to different people while maintaining a powerful hold over identity and belonging.
We discuss Efrat, the West Bank, violent settlers, the relationship between Judaism and Zionism, the dehumanization of Palestinians, military service, nationalism, religious identity, cognitive dissonance, moral injury, and the personal costs of dissent. Daniel explains why leaving Zionism can mean losing family, friends, community, status, and purpose. He describes the process by which ideological systems reproduce themselves, how Israelis are taught to understand Palestinians, and why so many people remain trapped inside narratives.
We also explore Daniel’s awakening during COVID, what caused his worldview to unravel, why he believes Israeli society is entering a period of profound crisis, and what lessons his journey offers for all of us.
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A Holocaust survivor offers perspective why GAZA is a Holocaust
A Holocaust survivor’s perspective 👇offers unique historical weight when discussing what he calls a Holocaust in Gaza. It is most effective to let his direct testimony convey the gravity and the horror. My only issue, while he talks about Jewish individuals feeling the same way and speak out against the atrocities of Israel, unfortunately the vast majority of the Jewish community either openly supports the Israeli actions in Gaza (Genocide) or they maintain a silence that reflects a tacit approval.
It’s not only some Jews who remain silent, millions of people of all religions around the world keep silent about their disdain for what the Israeli government is guilty of. Government leaders refuse to speak up, citizens sit at home watching the horrors on TV but do nothing to let their governments know how they feel. Very few join protests or write letters. The majority of the entire world is silent.
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RFK jr: “Lyme Disease Almost Certainly Came from These [Gain-of Function] Experiments”
“Lyme Disease Almost Certainly Came from These [Gain-of Function] Experiments”
Reviewing the evidence that Lyme disease emerged from US biodefense Lab 257 on Plum Island.
Some readers may recall that, last November, in a conversation on the PBD Podcast, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary stated that “with a high degree of probability,” Lyme disease came from the U.S. biodefense “Lab 257 on Plum Island just outside of Connecticut.”
Makary elaborated that the pathogenic agent was developed primarily by the German veterinarian and animal virus specialist, Dr. Erich Traub, who previously conducted biological warfare research for Nazi Germany and was brought to the United States after the war as part of Operation Paperclip to acquire German scientific research while denying it to the Soviets.
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