The Ashkenazi Revolution

272destination of refuge. In particular, we should encourage the young ones toleave. We should not ignore the role of the Arab population as a goodsource of labor, but there is no lack of such laborers in the Levant. We canaccept them from Cyprus and from Turkey and put them to work withshort-term visas. Our hunger for manual Labor must not turn into a forcethat fattens and strengthens the Arab minority, which constitutes a foreignand hostile element in our nation.Israel’s foreign policy should be based upon the certainty of long-termArab hatred and not upon experimentalism that attempts to reach solidaritywith the Arab peoples. A tactic of non-agression is likely to be essential asa result of external circumstances and international pressure. However, assoon as hostilities break out it would be suicide if Israel took a defensivestance. The incredible numeric advantage of the enemy obligates Israel tomake powerful offensive strikes, whose purpose would be to obliterate theArab urban civilization through acts of destruction and devastation the likesof which the Mideast has never seen. The State of Isreal should annexadditional territories but, in doing so, it must vacate them of their Araboccupants. We have no interest in inhabited Arab territories. The paucityof Israeli water sources, and other matters of grave concern, requires thatIsraeli annexations take place in the northern sector, at the expense ofSyria’s fertile and water-rich territories.6In Israel’s domestic life, L.A.I. will orchestrate a vigorous campaignagainst the influence of the New Hebrew Literature and the followers of theold-style values of the Labor movement. These values are indubitablylofty, and their strictly monastic character does not detract from theirindependent significance. The fact that an interesting, if temporary,civilization is based upon them is convincing testimony of theirsignificance. The trouble with these values is that they were immediatelymarried, as they were realized, in a contradictory marriage with opposinggoals. In the sphere of ethics, the general human ethical goal of AaronDavid Gordon was married with the political will of the Jew who is