Ze’ev Jabotinsky on Truce & the Battle for Israel

soldWhile a fragile “truce” holds and Israel prays for quiet, undoubtedly the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, is strategizing his next move. As he thinks, without a question he considers Jewish history. His father, Benzion Netanyahu, was known to have a tremendous influence on his son – and Benzion was Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s secretary.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky is considered the forefather of the movement Netanyahu leads today – and made countless statements which are relevant today. As is said, history repeats itself:

Everything connected with war is “evil” and “good” does not exist at all. When you fire at the enemy do not lie to yourself and do not imagine that you are shooting at the “guilty”… if at that time we would have begun to calculate what was preferable – the result would have been simple: if you want to be “good” allow yourself to be killed and forego all that you made it your aim to defend: home, country, freedom, hope. The Romans used to say: “always choose the lesser of two evils. When you are faced with a situation where the exertion of force prevails, only one question may be presented: “which is worse?” [Jabotinsky in Story of The Jewish Legion.]

No one in Israel wants war – but an enemy devoted to destroying the Jewish people must be countered. It is a reality which faces the State of Israel every single day.

Human society is based on reciprocity. If you remove reciprocity, justice becomes a lie. A person walking somewhere on a street has the right to live only because and only to the extent that he acknowledges my right to live. But, if he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist – and this also applies to nations. Otherwise, the world would become a racing area for vicious predators, where not only the weakest would be devoured, but the best. [Jabotinsky in Ethics of the Iron Wall.]

Sometimes, force is the only way.

Justice means that everyone receives that which he deserves, especially those that have nothing will receive at least something: for example, a nation which has become stateless should be given a country of its own. We Jews too are candidates for this form of justice as equally as others. For as long as we do not obtain that which we deserve, the world is in fact perpetrating an injustice. Anything that hinders the attainment of our just demands is in principle an injustice… If ours is a righteous demand than anything that threatens its implementation loses the right to cloak itself with lofty phraseology…. Its true name is nothing other than – criminal. [Jabotinsky in a speech, July 8, 1927.]

Only when it involves Israel does the whole world call for a “cease-fire.”As Jabotinsky said in 1940, “Life is not always logical.”

Amidst criticism that Israel faces world pressure, and should sacrifice to comply with “world leaders,” Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote a clear answer in The Story of The Jewish Legion:

“Everybody is wrong and you alone are right?” No doubt this question springs by itself to the reader’s lips and mind. It is customary to answer this with apologetic phrases to the effect that I fully respect public opinion that I bow to it, that I was glad to make concessions….All this is unnecessary, and all this is untrue. You cannot believe in anything in the world, if you admit even once that perhaps your opponents are right, and not you. This is not the way to do things. There is but one truth in the world, and it is all yours. If you are not sure of it, stay at home; but if you are sure, don’t look back, and it will be your way.

Remember the work of Ze’ev Jabotinsky – Israel must stand strong against her enemies.

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  • mama bear

    He is so right and precious..G-d , Himself told the Jews to destroy all the Amalek off His Covenant Land those who try to steal the land, and included to kill the men,women and children the ox and the donkey.. He also said that the nukes in Iran would bedesroyed as well as Damascus will be rubble , in one hour in the evening..then He tells us the nations listed in Psalms 83 that they will attack and both the wor now and then, Isralel will win..then when Russia comes with all the nations He will roar thru Zion and kill many and then chase the rest home and kill them on the way and go into their nations and kill the men,women , the children and the ox. Judgement day is coming soon as HE told us in scripture that when Israel became a nation that we would be the generation standing.. that happened in May 1947…He is comeing and now with lovey dovey..HE is a G-d of Justice and says anyone who is against Israel does NOT have HIS SPIRIT..and will face judgement and warns from the beginning who is cursed in Genesis 12:3..NO one replaced Israel and those who read Romans nine , t en and eleven real slowwwww, you won’t find replaced any where…we owe the JEWS a debt we cannto pay but we are to stand with Israel and pray for Peace because when we do, it will bring Messiah.. Evenryone much chose who they serve shalom

    • Americana

      Religious wars have never solved the problem. As for God having said anything about destroying the “nukes in Iran” and that “Damascus would be destroyed” and that “when Russia comes,” you’re overstating Biblical prophesy.

      • IslamDownpressesHumanity

        How did islam come to dominate the Mid-East and N. Africa then? Muslim outreach to other faiths has always been at the point of a sword.

  • ConcernedCitizen999

    The first law of life is self-preservation. Self-preservation is the highest priority. All other rules, laws and morality are derived from and subordinate to this law and of lower priority. Anyone who violates this law will cease to exist and then the question will be moot and irrelevant.