The Ashkenazi Revolution

177foreign landscape, were the ones who built up the land and not MideasternJews – this is convincing historical evidence of the historical inferiority ofthe latter. Ashkenazi Jews gave Mideastern Jews the Land of Israel as agift, but upon the silver platter, on which the gift was presented, was also awrit of inferiority, as an unavoidable accompaniment. It was not us whopresented the Mizrahi Jew this writ of failure, but history. The writ isinscribed upon Ashkenazi parchment. Every eye sees the parchment butonly the few with deeper vision see the history. Moreover: It is morecomfortable and more pleasant for the Mizrahi Jew to judge based on theparchment rather than what is written upon it. The result is that in themidst of our rescue work on behalf of Mideastern Jewry, and because ofthis rescue, we awaken a sea of hatred. The dance of demons of thiscounter-historical combination, rescue-degradation, which is embedded inthe gathering of exiles, constantly pursues us. More than this: We havepresented to Mideastern Jewry the maximum possible portion ofdegradation, despite super-human efforts to minimize the degradation, butwe have brought it only a small portion of the expected rescue, for itsweakness is a malignant growth that is difficult to remove.3The confrontation between Ashkenaz and the non-Ashkenazi peoples is ameeting between one of the giants of the world and a group of midgets.Each one of these midgets serves as indirect evidence of the greatness ofAshkenaz. The Ashkenazi superiority is primarily a superiority of its ruleover time. It is a superiority of geographical dispersion, of an abundance ofhuman skills, of standing upon the historical world stage. The Sephardim,that is to say, the members of the Ladino nation, demand special status forthemselves among the non-Ashkenazi peoples. They wish to fill somethingof an intermediate stage between the small Afro-Asiatic nations andAshkenaz. But they are not quite able to do this, despite the outstandingqualities, and social health, of the Ladino nation. History was also cruel tothis people and included it among the midgets. The attempt to combine themidgets, and to consolidate them against the giant, is ridiculous to beginwith, except, perhaps, with the ballot box when there are many delegates.