The Ashkenazi Revolution

140type that donated such great donations to the Communist Revolution.Moreover: There is a great similarity between the leaders of the Labormovement and the famous communist leaders. Trotsky and Ben-Gurioncreated armies. Trotsky the red army, and Ben-Gurion the I.D.F.Kahanovitch and Eshkol were pioneer-workers. The former aided Stalin inindustrializing Russia and the latter wrote a shining chapter in the historyof the Hebrew settlement of the Land of Israel. The skill of Eshkol,Pinchas Sapir and Hillel Dan, in pioneer-worker activism, is not lessimportant than their fellows who were active in the more general matters ofRussia. (There is no great difference between tending to a program thatinvolves an investment of millions and tending to a program the involvesan investment of billions). It is very likely that the skills of Ben-Gurion arenot inferior to those of Trotsky. Until now everything is fine. However,the difference in the final goal that the Jewish Communists anticipated, andthat that their fellows, who followed the Labor movement, anticipated isgreat indeed! The former wished to conquer the entire world, to changeworld civilization from the foundation up. However, the Labor movementwished to establish a few dozen points of settlement that lived under thebenevolence of average Zionist Jews who contributed donations. This isall! The Communist goal is a million times greater than that of the Labormovement. And we cannot say that, within the Jewish territory there wasno room for great works. Herzl and Stern proved that it was a placesuitable for great works, even great works done through the power of oneman. However, the Labor movement did not want great works. It was illwith some sort of mental illness of minimal goals. This influenced, ofcourse, the lifestyle of its men. David Ben-Gurion did great deeds from thetime he migrated to the Land of Israel until the year 1920 and after that,from the year 1947 and onward. But what did he do during the 27 yearsbetween 1920 and 1947? Had he been asleep during these 27 years, likeHoni the Circle-Drawer, it would not have made much of a difference inthe course of Zionist history. During this long period there was hardlyanything important, about which it could be said that had it not been forBen-Gurion, it would not have come to pass. The gates of Jewishmigration to the Land of Israel were cast wide open, after Hitler’s rise topower, by Arthur Wokoff, and the living spirit that recruited for the Jewish