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

<p>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.</p><p>He surveys the camp, the Jews within it and comes out with one conclusion: pity won’t build a nation, soldiers will. </p><p>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.</p><p>In this episode, we get into:</p><ul><li><p>The Jewish Legion, and why nearly every Zionist leader thought Jabotinsky was a mad man</p></li><li><p>How Joseph Trumpeldor became one of his lone allies early in his fight</p></li><li><p>His failed effort to recruit Jews from London’s East End to fight for their homeland.</p></li><li><p>The Balfour Declaration and his crossing the Jordan as part of the Legion</p></li><li><p>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 </p></li></ul><p>Grab a seat, and bring your stubborn streak. Part three is coming.</p><p></p>