Chips Fly When Trees are Felled with Arieh Eldad
byCan revolutionary movements achieve lofty goals without harming innocent people along the way?
Can revolutionary movements achieve lofty goals without harming innocent people along the way?
As Leḥi’s official radio announcer, Geula Cohen became the haunting voice of the dreaded Sternist underground in the minds of Palestine’s British occupiers.
Under Gera’s leadership, Leḥi developed a political outlook that applied revolutionary principles to the Jewish people and its struggle for liberation.
It’s difficult to believe that Israel once offered a political option for voters who would today feel torn between Yamina and the Joint List.
One of the fundamental teachings of Yair to his Leḥi comrades was that a freedom fighter doesn’t fight to be free. He is able to fight because he’s already free.
On a simple level there was happiness. The simple, apolitical happiness of Jews, happiness of ‘we will have a state’ of our own by those who only yesterday didn’t believe independence possible or necessary.
What can Leḥi teach our generation about the next stage of Jewish liberation?