The Ashkenazi Revolution

165ideal dream for many intellectuals. But, in the pathological view of ShinShalom, this work was likened to “a Marathon race”. Here’s another quote:Yitzhak Lamdan, of blessed memory, collapsed under a load of “papers”that he had carried by himself, with nobody else there.The truth is that Lamdan published his pet causes, as is the way of avantgardeauthors in the world, and this work involved many difficulties, justlike any other work of this type, so what of it?The style of Shin Shalom’s writing is of a professional panhandler who isnever satisfied. Hebrew Literature receives fantastic subsidies from thepublic, but, with all this, it is never enough for Shin Shalom. He demandsthat the author be free from any trouble or work, that he have the status ofholy cows in India, and that public money be available to him with nolimits and according to his own discretion.However Shin Shalom is not just a man who knows how to make demandsbut also a man who knows how to slander and to besmirch in order toachieve his demands-extortions. His besmirching is aimed “straight at thetarget”, that is to say, at the officials of the government of Israel:However, our illustrious leaders, innocent spokesmen of the nation, (and Iam not doubting their innocence) who live by their own words (of this I amdoubtful), they and their officials and their officers and their delegates andtheir secretaries and their relatives who execute their words, in Israel andin the Diaspora, dwell sheltered in large apartments, sometimes double orquadruple-sized, both here and there, and they have fancy cars withprivate drivers, and they even have the privilege of having their writingdone through dictation by stenographers, while cooks and chefs prepareregularly prepare meals for their tables…We have before us a case of a pathologically demanding man who is askillful extortionist, and who adopts a style of speech equal to that of theHebrew fish market. Had somebody published a guide for the Jewish