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Give Your Confidence To Those Who For 25 Years Have Shown The Nation The Right Way

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Begin sends a message to the Zionist Electorate of Southern Africa. Begin first reminisces about the success of Etzel while fighting for the liberation of the Homeland. To maintain this liberation, Begin argues that there must not only be Statecraft, but also good will. Then Begin states that this factor has been lost in the Homeland and the world. He then shares that Herzl and Jabotinsky taught that the Homeland belongs to all Jews, including Diaspora Jews. Additionally, Diaspora Jews can “draw from it courage, faith and pride.” This leads him to say that it is the responsibility of Zionist South Africans to co-develop the Homeland. He shares directions the Homeland can go in, like a free or a totalitarian state. The point Begin makes is that Zionist South Africans need to support Herut, to prevent the continuation of the totalitarian direction the Homeland is going in.

Statement on Negotiations with Germany and the Last Events in Jerusalem

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A statement by Begin about the issue of reparations from Germany. It is blood money, and the majority in both the Knesset and the General public are against it. Intimidation has been used against Mapai MKs to ensure they vote in line with the party, a tyrannical measure. Begin demanded a referendum on the issue, but his demand was rejected. A large demonstration against the reparations was violently attacked by police. There is talk of a new underground, but that is just the guilty consciousnesses and fears of certain government officials. The reparations must be stopped to prevent shame from falling on the nation and the hurting of survivors of the Holocaust and relatives of the victims.

Israel–and the Juggernaut

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Begin starts with a metaphor to perhaps show that the consistent reign over Israel is constantly being controlled by a different person, or country. After briefly bashing David Ben-Gurion for assisting the British Mandate in preventing liberation of the Homeland, he refocuses on specific incidents where Herut argued for or against an issue, and Mapai did not listen. These examples include when Herut argued that the Government should recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and when Herut believed in Israel’s birthright. Begin shifts to talk about Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharrett’s weak foreign policy. Since they do not stand their ground, Begin argues that “no foreign nation [or the UN] can take such Government seriously.” At the end, Begin touches upon the economy and that the Government is attempting to make its citizens dependants.

Why I Wrote The Revolt, Story of the Irgun

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The introduction to Begin’s book, THE REVOLT, published as an op-ed in the American Jewish Review, in which Begin explains why he wrote the book. It was mostly to remind Jews that there are things worth fighting and even dying for. But it was also to remind non-Jews that the ‘fighting Jew’ had returned to the world. Begin devotes the rest of the op-ed to British readers, who would be wary of him as a former ‘terrorist’ and possibly insulted by the words he has for the British authorities and government. He admits to being motivated by hate, but not hate for the British people. In short, it was a hatred of injustice born out of a love of good and justice and of one’s people, so it was a hatred all decent men should share. In the end, under similar circumstances, Begin would lead the revolt all over again.

The Liberation of Eretz Israel

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Begin speaks about the liberation of the Homeland in its entirety. He first emphasizes the mutually exclusivity between the concentration of the Jewish nation and the liberation of the Homeland. He talks about the Jewish Agency’s efforts to partition the Homeland and mentions that if the Jewish Agency had been successful, the country would not have been able to absorb the mass Jewish immigration. The Jewish Agency was not successful because of the British and Arab war efforts during the War of Independence. Begin then focuses on what needs to happen to liberate the rest of the Homeland. The conditions are a will to liberate and a political “constellation.” Begin argues that “it is not right to say that the liberation of the remaining parts of the Homeland are dependent only on war.” He does acknowledge that Jews, however, should be prepared to fight. He concludes saying that both the Government and Britain are preventing liberation of the Homeland.