A moving, just discovered speech by the immortal Ben Hecht, Jewish warrior
I just read an amazing speech Ben Hecht gave in 1948 at a fundraiser for the Etzel or Irgun, Menachem Begin’s Zionist army in the pre-state years that played a decisive role in forcing the British to finally leave the land of Israel. The entire text, and the backstory are published in The Jewish Review of Books. …