The Ashkenazi Revolution

166extortionist, for his extortion work against Jewish organizations, he wouldsurely include these words from Shin Shalom. This version places in frontof living authors, the image of a pitiful man, naked and lacking everything,and alongside him, the officials who lack nothing…. We can recognize, inthe words of Shin Shalom, the jealousy that speaks from his throat. Hewould want the authors, that is to say, the “prophets” as he calls them, toalso have stenographers, cooks and apartments. These are the “prophets”according to Shin Shalom! By the way, everybody in the country knowsthat the officials come cheap to us. Their salaries are relatively low and thework is very hard. This is known all over the world. These are the true“marathon racers”, but they do not complain about it, rather they do theirwork.In his extortionist blindness, Shin Shalom sees only those who he imaginesreceived more from the nation than the authors did, but his eyes are blockedfrom seeing those who received a lot less, or who had received nothing:For example the 18, 19 and 20 year olds, who are sometimes the onlychildren of their parents, who died in battle during the War ofIndependence, the many settlers who died from malaria, or who becameinvalids, those of the Underground who died or were imprisoned etc. Anyargument with an extortionist like Shin Shalom is ridiculous. We shouldtell him to leave us alone and cease doing us favors. That he not write, thathe not “mold the generation”. And who gave them the credentials to be“molders of the generation” anyway, as they constantly representthemselves? All the authors of the New Hebrew Literature do not amountto one hair of Hannah Szenes when it comes to “molding the generation”.In one page of Shalom Aleichem, that we get for free, there is more literarywealth than what Shin Shalom would sell us, in the goodness of his heart,for a million Liras. We should tell the industrious authors, of the categoryof Shin Shalom, who strive to raise the price of their goods higher andhigher, that there will be no customers for their goods under theseconditions, that they please remove them from the stalls that they have setup in the streets, for nobody will buy them and nobody wants them!5