308	The Story of the Jewish Defense League

bforces and hears the names of valiant soldiers and mighty bmissiles and aircraft and tanks and Jewish prowess. And bone’s heart swells with pride and joy, but finally, after wait- bing and waiting and waiting, one turns to the rulers of the bState of the Jews and asks: ‘But where is G-d?’

b“There is no room for G-d because the socialists and bpioneers who came to the Land and created the state did bnot—and do not—believe in the Jewish G-d, and, at best, pay blip service to some Being whose existence is so irrelevant bthat it plays not the slightest role in the planning of policy of the bfuture. The people who rule Israel are ideological men bwhose roots are in a non-Jewish socialism, a non-Jewish bnationalism, a non-Jewish atheism, or, at best, benign ne- bglect of Him, and whose philosophy of divine irrelevance is bstamped on the culture and life of the state.

b“The schools they build and the curricula in them reflect bthe assimilation, the Western cultural imitation, the vapid bnon-Jewishness and non-uniqueness of their creators. The byoungsters who go through the school system emerge bexactly as one would expect. The school does not preach bunique Jewishness; the student emerges as non-unique as bhis counterpart on Broadway. Judaism, G-d, mitzvot, the bconcept of Ata B’chartanu (You have chosen us), the separate band special Jewish role and destiny—all these are buried bunder a Western curriculum and Western secular values. bThe student emerges with values that are not Jewish, but buniversal—and universally frightening.

b“His destiny? The concept of destiny for the product of bthe schools of the State of the Jews? A car, a big car; girls, or bboys; money, a great deal of it; America, and everything Ameri- bcan! His ignorance of his Judaism and of his heritage is bshocking, his indifference to the special Jewish destiny of bholiness, separateness, and chosenness is appalling. Movies, bgood times, pretty girls, status—these are the gods of the bState of the Jews.

b“The newspapers become increasingly filled with news of bdaily crimes of violence: murder, brutal rape, sadistic as- bsault, robbery. The movie houses have long lines gathering boutside to see the same filth that pollutes every other mod- b