Two Jews meet during the first year of the Third Reich. One of them is reading "Der. Stuermer."

"Are you crazy?" asks the astounded second man, "reading that pornographic antisemitic rag?" "I will tell you why," says the first. "In all the other papers I read that Jews are persecuted and pathetic. Only in this paper do I get to read that Jews run the world!"

For the same reason I like to hear and read the musings of our own right wingers. The left wingers whine. All is lost. We have lost power; we have lost our state. We are helpless and have no influence. It is only when I read the words of the right wingers that I realize how omnipotent the Left really is, that it is the elite, controlling the media, the economy and the rest of our infrastructures.

One such Balaam is Amnon Lord, who writes in a Tel-Aviv local paper. Every once in a while Lord showers me with compliments which work miracles on my ego. A few months ago he wrote: "After all, Uri Avnery... had a tremendous impact on the entire spiritual life as it exists today in Israel." I have never heard such words coming from a left winger.

Two weeks ago, this Lord Balaam scaled new heights. In a debate with a competing local paper, he defined the following historical truths: "Maybe this is the time to inform the snot-nosed and dull-witted in the decadent camp that "the children of the Sebastia settlement" and "the children of the Hebron settlers" are the ones with the real lineage, in contrast to those who have sprung from the impoverished seeds of S. Yis'har, Uri Avnery and Joseph Stalin."

I look to the right and I see the giant of the spirit, Yis'har, the Israeli Thomas Mann, a man who should been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature long ago. I look to the left, and I see the giant of power, Stalin, one of the dominant figures of the twentieth century. How can my ego not get inflated?

In truth, Joseph Visarionovich Dzhugashvilli, known as Stalin, has never been among my favorites (with the exception, perhaps, of a short period when his army marched west, vanquished the Nazi monster and saved the remaining Jewry from the ovens of Auschwitz).

I have never been a Communist, and, woe is me, not even a Marxist. I could never comprehend how so many honest and bright individuals could worship this monstrous man and see him as "a sun to the nations" until his death. As a murderer of peoples, he was no slouch compared to Hitler. His innocent victims numbered in the tens of millions.

It is not clear to me what a true humanist such as S. Yis'har and an inhuman despot such as Stalin could have in common, and even less so, what could I have in common with either one. It is unclear how the seed of the three of us compares with that of Meir Kahane, Amnon Lord and Benito Mussolini, for instance. But perhaps the learned Amnon Lord meant the spiritual seed.

If this is the case, then there is plenty to discuss. Are those youths of Beit Hagi, who murder a poor Arab farmer as a prank, spiritually superior to those children of peace movements, who stand up for the rights of every human being in God's image? Is Margalit Har-Shefi a nobler individual than, say, Hanah Senesh? Does Yigal Amir's courage exceed the courage of the combat soldiers described by Yis'har in "The Days of Tsiklag"? Is Baruch Goldstein's conscience better than that of the heroes of Yis'har's "Hirbat Hiz'ah"? If I had but a fraction of the influence that the writer ascribes to me on the hundreds of thousands of those demonstrating against Sabra and Shatillah, should I, then, hang my head in shame vis a vis Moshe Levinger?

A few weeks ago, at the Yigal Allon award ceremony, Yitzhak Ben-Aharon spoke to an audience of Leftists, opening his speech with the following words: "Greetings, all you homeless people. You are all homeless. Some of you have lost a kibbutz, some have lost a country, some have lost their friends. All of you have lost your home."

No, no, a thousand times no! I am not homeless. We have a home, we have a country, and for those we will fight with all our might. We have the power, and it is not only the moral and spiritual power. We have the capability to make a difference in actions, with our personal example, with logic and with spiritual fervor.

It is only the low spirits and the lack of will which are our undoing. It is not the warmongers and the hatemongers who are the greatest enemies of the Left, nor is it the Orthodox and the settlers, nor the Bibi Netanyahus - it is our own despair and whining, the rampant fear among the Left itself.

Such an outburst of frustration and self-pity is natural in times of hardship, but a mentally strong individual pulls himself out of it and, come morning, goes into action.

For those who want a demonstration of our true might, let them pay heed to the words coming out of the House of Lords of the Right.