Pollard: The Hilltop Youth Are the ‘New Irgun’
Why the government’s failure to govern has turned young shepherds into Israel’s last defense against a de facto Palestinian State
In the late 1930s, the Jewish establishment in pre-State Palestine was paralyzed by a policy of Havlagah—self-restraint. Desperate to appease British colonial overseers and maintain a veneer of respectability, the leadership refused to respond decisively to Arab terror. Jewish blood was cheap; Jewish roads were death traps. It was a policy of strategic suicide disguised as morality. It ended only when the Irgun stepped into the void, rejecting the paralysis of the establishment and replacing restraint with deterrence.
In a blistering communique, Jonathan Pollard warns that the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted a modern, and equally disastrous, policy of Havlagah. By refusing to enforce the law against a massive, foreign-funded Arab takeover of our heartland, the Cabinet has abdicated its most fundamental duty: sovereignty.
“In some respects,” Pollard told Jewish Home News, “the vigilante actions of some Hilltop residents remind me of the pre-State days when retaliatory terror operations conducted by the Irgun finally put an end to the Arab rain of murder and mayhem.”
The young pioneers on the ridges of Judea and Samaria—derisively labeled “Hilltop Youth”—are not the problem. They are the inevitable antibodies generated by a state that refuses to defend its own immune system.
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