By Joseph Heller
This examine of "The Stern Gang" makes an attempt to demythologize identical to this extremist, Zionist underground team. The booklet analyzes the party's break up from the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National army association) and its makes an attempt to synthesize the politics and beliefs of the suitable and left.
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52 Altogether, in fact, Jabotinsky was standing on increasingly weak ground. Although the maximalists had aroused opposition in several 20 The Stern Gang circles, there was no open demand at the conference for their removal from the Revisionist movement - notwithstanding their image as supporters of Mussolini and Hitler. 53 Jabotinsky vehemently rejected Achimeir's demand for a dictatorship, emphasising the democracy of the Revisionist movement. But, as expected, he simultaneously announced that he would not expel Achimeir from his movement.
In the summer of 1938, on the eve ofthe third world convention of Betar, Heilperin made a final attempt to break through the ideological walls of Revisionism. The convention met two weeks after the hanging of Shlomo Ben Yosef, and Heilperin's anti-British tone evoked a more favourable response. Like Stern, he viewed this first hanging as a decisive turning-point and now called on Betar to become a 'revolutionary military party'. ' The Jews would 'conquer' (rather than just 'take control of') the country, and he laid great stress on 'war potential'.
He hoped that, with the help of Avraham Amper and Nathan Friedman-Yellin, a force of 40,000 youths would eventually arise from the Jewish populations of Eastern Europe and the Balkans to raise 'the banner of rebellion' in Palestine against the British. According to Friedman-Yellin's later version, he no longer regarded J abotinsky as the effective leader. The IZL was now an organisation of national liberation, striving for complete independence from the political overlordship of the NZO. 29 At the same time, Heilperin was supported by the proclamation of 'the activist-Revisionist front' in Poland at the beginning of 1938.