The Ashkenazi Revolution

169breach. It was not pangs of conscience that motivated the author to writethe book, as he had announced, but a cold calculation, for HebrewLiterature has no conscience. In the matter of the Underground, HebrewLiterature acted as a cult of executioners’ helpers. Had it shown a differentrelationship, things would have worked out differently. Death sentenceswould not have been passed, and Feinstein and Barzani would not havekilled themselves. In the days of the Underground, the cult of HebrewLiterature reaped its profits as it appeared in the role of a cult ofexecutioners’ helpers, and today it wishes to reap its profits as mourners ofthe death of martyrs, who none other than itself had helped put to death.For a devoted Revisionist it is forbidden to even touch a book by Hazaz. Ifit happens into his home, he must throw it into the nearest garbage bin.6“From the Foundation” is the name of a high quality biweekly that Lavonand his friends publish, and whose main function is to attack the pioneerworkersthrough specific tools of Hebrew Literature. Indeed, “From theFoundation”. But does the Labor movement have a foundation? Thismovement, in its current form, is closer to Avraham Stern than to AaronDavid Gordon. It is closer to Jabotinksy than to Y. Aharonovich, to AbbaAhimeir than to Martin Buber. The foundation that the Labor movementleft in its possession is collapsed and ruptured and, as it was being soruptured, this movement rolled downhill, like a giant ball, to anotherfoundation entirely – the foundation of Herzlism and Revisionism. Theideological ways of the Labor movement were like the ways of a creaturethat, while it treaded the path it had set for itself, reached the abyss overand over again, and as it reached the abyss, it turned to the paths it hadpreviously abhorred. This is the problem with the men of “From theFoundation”. They have no foundation, and had they stood as leaders ofMapai, they would have been forced to take the same route that leads fromAaron David Gordon to Avraham Stern, which is the path their foes hadtaken.