The Ashkenazi Revolution

156been listed among friends of the British secret police, but on the list of itsenemies and those whom it persecuted, he and his poetry would have beengreat. Since he took another path, he was diminished and, along with him,was his poetry. Avraham Stern was a great man but a minor poet. But hisgreat personality raised his minor poetry. The opposite was true with UriZvi Grinberg. His small personality minimized his great poetry.Had Uri Zvi Grinberg been the spokesman for any sort of non-Jewishnational movement, he would not have been forgiven for his disloyalty. Hewould have been removed from its membership forever, and even requiredto stand culpable before its institutions of justice. But this was not thepractice within the national Zionist movement, among whom the Hebrewauthors enjoyed the status of gods. Uri Zvi Grinberg sought honor and theFreedom movement sent him to the Knesset as their representative, secondafter Menahem Begin…. Through this it was proven and stressed that thewritten Hebrew word has, in Zionism, greater weight than the most heroicdeed, and that a great author is a god who cannot err because gods nevererr.Now Uri Zvi Grinberg tries to obscure his disloyalty, during theUnderground War, by demanding military activism in foreign relations. Ina democratic society every man is free to present his demands, on thecondition that there is a feeling that the man can be identified with thedemand and that he is willing to pay the associated price. But after hisbehavior during the Underground War, it was clear from the beginning thatUri Zvi Grinberg is not prepared to pay the price associated with hisdemands. His appearance as an extreme military activist is therefore onlyfor show and false at its root, like the appearance of a singer who ascendsto the stage even as he knows that his throat is sore and he cannot producea sweet voice. This sneaky tactic, by Uri Zvi Grinberg, will not rehabilitatethe ruins of his house, which he himself destroyed. It can only furtherreduce the value that an objective observer attributes to his personality.3