15 Years for Defending Jews: Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Part 2

Picking up where we left him last time…Jabotinsky is in a refugee camp in Egypt with 12,000 Jewish refugees, who had been expelled from Palestine by the Turks.

He surveys the camp, the Jews within it and comes out with one conclusion: pity won’t build a nation, soldiers will.

What follows are the three of the loneliest years of his life, followed spending time in a British prison for the crime of defending Jews against Arab violence.

In this episode, we get into:

• The Jewish Legion, and why nearly every Zionist leader thought Jabotinsky was a mad man

• How Joseph Trumpeldor became one of his lone allies early in his fight

• His failed effort to recruit Jews from London’s East End to fight for their homeland.

• The Balfour Declaration and his crossing the Jordan as part of the Legion

• His defense of the Jews in Jerusalem during the Nebi Musa riots in his sentence by a British court of 15 years of hard labor

Grab a seat, and bring your stubborn streak. Part three is coming.