The Ashkenazi Revolution

173Within the branching out of the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples, there is anelement that is more important than the quantitative difference between theAshkenazi region and the non-Ashkenazi region. What I mean is thedifferences from the perspective of time. Only the Ashkenazi Peoplestands, with both feet, within the twentieth century, and is capable ofbuilding a modern civilization. The other Jewish peoples are spread outover the expanse of the long time-line that stretches from the beginning ofthe 13 th or 10 th century and ends in the 19 th . Among the non-Ashkenazipeoples, a special place is reserved for the nation of Ladino-speakers, thatis to say, the Bulgarians, other inhabitants of the Balkans and theinhabitants of Asia Minor. This nation possesses a European language andis noteworthy in its wonderful social health. But the various tools of thisnation are on par with the 19 th century, and they are not at all sufficient toallow the establishment of a modern civilization in the 20 th century. Thesituation of the other non-Jewish peoples, who are Afro-Asiatic, is muchworse. In many of them we can recognize clear signs of recklessness anddegeneracy. The contact between the higher classes and the lower ones isweakened. The former tend toward assimilation among the enlightenedclasses of the lands in which they live, but the latter descended lower and,in this way, they made themselves susceptible to becoming absorbed intothe corresponding lower classes of the ruling people. In contrast to thedynamic Zionist movement, within the Ashkenazi and Ladino-speakingpeoples, there hardly arose any Zionist movement worthy of the nameamong Afro-Asiatic Jewish peoples (the Yemenites are exceptions to thisrule!). Most of these peoples marched toward oblivion and assimilationuntil Ashkenazim appeared in the Mideast and put an end to this process,creating, in its place, the necessity to abandon the Diaspora and migrate tothe State of Israel. Ashkenaz ruled over the lives and the fates of theseJewish peoples. It destroyed the good relationship between them and theMuslim population, removed the chances of them assimilating and broughtthe Afro-Asiatic Jewish peoples to the State of Israel in campaigns ofspeedy and effective airlifts.This rule of Ashkenaz over the Afro-Asiatic Jewish nations, and over othernon-Ashkenazi nations, continued also in the State of Israel. This rule of