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Former Stern Group leader Israel Eldad still
maintains controversial presence in Israel
BY HERB KEINON
Jerusalem — A common threat
woven through the writings of
many an early Zionist was the
hope that, with the creation of an
independent Jewish state, Jews
would at long last guide their own
destiny. Since the very conception
of the Zionist idea, the most
favorable course for a Jewish
state to chart has, however, been
the source of intense and often bit-
ter internal wrangling. A young
state, Israel is still in the process
of self-definition. Her ultimate
goals are yet to be determined; the
nature of her society still to be
firmly fixed.
As such, the struggle over Is-
rael's orientation in all spheres of
life is being waged by various
schools of political thought, each
with a different vision of Israel's
ideal destiny. One such vision, al-
beit a controversial one, is that of
Dr. Israel Eldad, the self-
proclaimed "Grand Old Man" of
Israel's ideological right.
A former leader of the Stern
Group, the smallest and most rad-
ical component of the pre-state
Jewish underground, Dr. Eldad
remains a firm believer in the Re-
visionist Zionist philosophy of
Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Uri Zvi Green-
berg and Avraham Stern. In a co-
gent and scholarly manner, the
74-year-old academician has for
more than 40 years been espous-
ing a revolutionary brand of mes-
sianic, territorial Zionism. Histo-
rian and Biblical scholar, colum-
Dr. Israel Eldad
nist and university lecturer, Dr.
Eldad seems almost single-
handedly to put to rest the notion
that Isael's "right-wing" is today
without any true intellectuals.
Dr. Eldad's premise is simple:
Zionism is a revolution which has
as its ultimate goal the physical
and spiritual redemption of the
Jewish people. The modern State
of Israel is not an end, but rather
"a tool for the accomplishment of
an act of redemption." Referring
to the Bible, as he is wont to do,
Eldad reminds us that chronolog-
ically the Judges preceded the
Prophets. The role of Deborah,
Samson and Gideon, the role of
Israel's Judges Was to conquer the
Land and physically pave the way
for the spiritual renaissance
heralded by the Prophets.
The analogy to modern Israel is
obvious. The Jewish state, in Dr.
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Eldad's eyes, is a throwback to trie
Biblical Judges. The aim of .
Zionism is to ingather the exiles,
build up the land, and settle her
historic borders. This physical
task, though arduous and dif-
ficult, is a necessasry precondi-
tion to the longed for spiritual re- ,
demption of the Jewish people.
Many maintain, however, tha
israel's social, economic and secu-1
rity problems somewhat belie tha
claim that we are now living in
the Dawn of Redemption. Well
aware of this argument, Dr. Eldad
points out that the days of Judges
were also less than'ideal. "Never-
theless," he forcefully declares
"the Judges represented a neces-
sary stage in history. Zionism re-
presents a similar stage.
"History will not be written by
what makes headlines tonight
History judges final achieve-
ments, and what we have accom
plished so far is truly remarkable.
Don't despair of Zionism becaus
of today's immediate problems."
It is not Eldad's messianic
scenario as much as the political
implications of his proposed
script, which generates such con-
troversy. At the root of his uncon-
ventional political thought is t
belief that Israel should summar-
ily annex all the "liberated" ter-
ritories, Judea, Samaria and the
Gaza area. Opponents of such a
move maintain that not only
would the incorporation of over a
million Arabs who came under ,
our control after the Six-Day Wa
in 1967 undermine the Jewish na-
ture of the state, but that govern-
ing such a large and hostile
minority would eventually call for
the suspension of certain demo-
cratic procedures.
Somewhat aggravated by re-
current allusions to the demog-
raphic argument, Eldad claims
that had Ben-Gurion listened to
the fatalistic statisticians of his
day, he would never have declared
the independence of a Jewish
state in 1948. "Yet," Eldad thun-
ders, "rather than resigning itsel
to a political reality, Zionism has
always attempted to change it. -If
two million Diaspora Jews would
immigrate to Israel today, there -
would be no demographic debate,
the argument over Judea and
Samaria would not exist. I don't
have a Palestinian problem; .1
have a Brooklyn problem," he
says referring to the relativel y
tiny proportions of American
aliyah.
Furthermore, Dr. Eldad argues,
upon outright annexation Israel
should make it clear to the ArabF
within her expanded borders that
they have one of three options; _.
those wishing to stay must be-
come loyal citizens; those remain-
ing hostile must realize they are
`playing with fire'; and those d-e-
sirous of emigrating should be
helped and even encouraged to dc
so.
To many Israelis such a prob:=
lem sounds dangerously anti-
democratic. Eldad counters by
stressing that it is the redemption
of the Jewish people, not Western'l
democracy, which represents _ i
Zionism's ultimate goals.
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