For God’s sake, do not drag me into another war! I am worn down, and worn out, with crusading and defending Europe, and protecting mankind; I must think a little of myself. I am sorry for the Spaniards – I am sorry for the Greeks – I deplore the fate of the Jews; the people of the Sandwich Islands are groaning under the most detestable tyranny; Baghdad is oppressed, I do not like the present state of the Delta; Tibet is not comfortable. Am I to fight for all these people? The world is bursting with sin and sorrow. Am I to be champion of the Decalogue, and to be eternally raising fleets and armies to make all men good and happy? We have just done saving Europe, and I am afraid the consequence will be, that we shall cut each other’s throats. No war, dear Lady Grey! – No eloquence; but apathy, selfishness, common sense, arithmetic! I beseech you, secure Lord Grey’s swords and pistols, as the housekeeper did Don Quixote’s armour. If there is another war, life will not be worth having.
‘May the vengeance of Heaven’ overtake the Legitimates of Verona! but, in the present state of rent and taxes, they must be left to the vengeance of Heaven. I allow fighting in such a cause to be a luxury, but the business of a prudent, sensible man is to guard against luxury.
There is no such thing as a just war, or at least, as a wise war.
What Would Happen If Jews Stopped the Chillul Hashem on Har Habayis? NOTHING AT ALL!
Authored by: העורך Editor
Lechi veteran Shabtai Ben-Dov (1924-1979) wrote:
Even when the rumor that the “last mosque” (Al Aksa) had been torched in order to give way to the Temple, nothing out of the ordinary happened, either in the Muslim world or among the Muslims in Jerusalem itself. Even if it really transpired, and we had taken away the Temple Mount mosques and replaced them with the Temple, there would have been no practical background for the Islamic world to have aroused itself to launch any kind of jihad, to storm us seriously, or even harm us in some other manner much more efficient and significant than that with which it tries to hurt us anyway. It therefore seems that even if we were to rise up and carry out this “terrible act,” which so shocks our public today, nothing would really happen to us here, and the Muslim world would quickly adjust to the new situation.
(Written after the 1968 incident where an Australian tourist attempted to set Al Aksa mosque on fire.)
Excerpted from Save Israel here.