The Ashkenazi Revolution

132exists a chronological retardation and even this retardation lacks the oneadvantage that it should have included – that is a unifying aspect of thisretardation, since the Sephardo-Mizrahi peoples are spread out over a longplane of retardation. The vast difference between the Ashkenazi Peopleand the other peoples of the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples createsconceptual divisions in most important points. In the Ashkenazi plane it ispossible to clarify concepts to their finest details through the sharedlanguage and shared religious, national and geographical data. But this isnot so in the plane of the non-Ashkenazi confederacy of nations. The greatdivision that exists here ruins conceptual unity. One who acts in thisframework is obliged to satisfy himself with central symbolic references,which are all typically religious, and to try filling the void between themwith doubtful strategic combinations. The intellectual field of theAshkenazi People is, therefore, the clearest political field, and the field ofnon-Ashkenazi Peoples is the most crippled and cloudy political field.One of the first and most important steps that the Ashkenazi People wasobligated to do, in trying to solve the Ashkenazi Question, was to weakenits ties with the Sephardo-Mizrahi Confederation of Nations. It wasincumbent upon the Ashkenazi People to act as a separate nation,completely independent, marching toward its own goals, taking the path ofits language, Yiddish, and marshalling its actions strictly according to itsown notions. The framework of the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples, withthe abundance of national hatred entrenched within it, is a terrifyingminefield. It was incumbent upon the Ashkenazi nation to avoid thisframework, to retain symbolic ties, and to base its relationship with it uponphilanthropic foundations and upon assimilation into Ashkenaz. Herzl didnot do this. There was also no attempt to present the problem. But Herzldid act according to realistic notions of the Ashkenazi People, whileviewing the other peoples as bottom dwellers. If only the Uganda Proposalhad come to fruition, it would have been according to the Ashkenazi wayand according to Ashkenazi notions. But the rejection of this proposal, andthe victory of “the Zionists of Zion” disconnected Zionism from theAshkenazi plane and pushed it into the realm of the Confederacy of JewishPeoples, which only has room for cloudy and indecisive thinking. The