Fighter and Prophet

I just started reading the second volume of The Life and Times of Vladimir Jabotinsky by Joseph B. Schechtman.  It's called Fighter and Prophet.   

At one point, after the Va'ad Le'umi postponed taking any action until something else would transpire, Jabotinsky commented that "They have lost the quality of feeling offended."

"The Rabbis and the leftist representatives had made heated speeches, but one felt that behind all this there was no intensity of feeling.  They have bouillon instead of blood in their veins.  They are resigned to everything, and their spirit no longer reacts."

That was twenty years, at least, before the Holocaust.