The Ashkenazi Revolution

34If Jabotinsky and Grossman had parted ways due to their disagreement inthe following question of which is best, an armed conflict against Arabsand the British or being satisfied with an unarmed conflict – then therewould have been a break up. But the rift on account of T.S.A.H. was not abreak up; rather, it was a banishment of Grossman and his men.The commander of Etzel, David Raziel, drew his strength from the Bibleand used all of his free time to read it. In his activities during the earlyyears, until the outbreak of the world war, he was very much like a judgeand king. But afterwards, during the various peace agreements and civilianincidents, his personality came to resemble that of a commander ofHaganah. In his last heroic effort, when he led a small group of soldiers tothe wilderness of Iraq in order to strike at the mufti, Raziel returned to hisscriptural mannerism and, in his death, returned himself to the image of oneof the ancient judges. In contrast, Avraham Stern was one of manyoutstanding, and typical, kings of Israel who was revealed in a wonderfulway during the twentieth century. He reigned over his men by alwaysleading them from the front. His ways and reign were not for any kind ofpersonal benefit but as an emissary of a great concept. In the essence of hisforward-moving reign, Avraham Stern ruled over his men without restraint,and his disciples who arose after his death were not trustworthy to the samedegree as those who saw him face to face. He was a master of rare talents,a linguist and poet, whose heart had a flaming and pure love for his wife,Roni Borstein-Stern. If a tale of his life had been intertwined with thebooks of Samuel and Kings, it would have fit in naturally with the tales ofthe other mighty men of that biblical era, and no distinction would bevisible between it and the parallel life stories. The attempts, by hisenemies, to portray him as a “dissident”, constitute a gross forgery that isaided by formalistic and pedestrian concepts that ignore, in a narrowmindedway, the early foundations of the ancient People of Israel fromwhich his personality was hewn.One cannot view the correct historic role of David Ben-Gurion, in Hebrewhistory, except by including him in the list of important Israeli kings. From