The Ashkenazi Revolution

178Just as a dozen dim-witted people can never be equal to a genius, likewise acollection of non-Ashkenazi midgets cannot compete against Ashkenaz.This situation creates the traumatic meeting between an athlete and a seriesof small defective people. Members of the non-Ashkenazi peoples have thefeeling that they are defective compared to the giant who stands beforethem. They are reminded of their depressing smallness everywhere: Intalent and in cultural richness, in their social standing and in their personalabilities. In their hearts beats a strong desire to flee this dwarflike status, tojoin the giant and to be of his flesh and bones. To this end, they hopelesslyaspire. They joined the Revisionist undergrounds in proportions far greaterthan their percentage of the population and their educational level. It isenough to look at the list of those who died in Lehi and Etzel to appreciatethis. Tens of them found their deaths not necessarily because they soughtto free the Land of Israel from foreign rule, but because they sought to freethemselves from the status of defective people through stepping up to agreat historic association, and fought shoulder to shoulder with Ashkenaz.But this form of Sephardo-Mizrahi reaction to their dwarflike status, inrelation to Ashkenaz, is not the only one. There are other forms that areless praiseworthy. There is, first and foremost, a form of hatred toward thegiant, of wishing for his misfortune, and of joy at his defeat. Thisphenomenon was very recognizable regarding the Holocaust and the trial ofEichmann. In folklore, and in the collection of curses of these peoples,there is an excessively long list of curses that identify with Hitler and withEichmann, and even those that express sorrow that the work of those twowas not good enough. “It is a pity that Hitler did not finish all of you”, or“it is a pity that Eichmann did not work overtime” are common cursesamong the Sephardo-Mizrahi Jews, and they are heard in the workplace, inoffices and even in schools. Against this background there were severalscandals and one instance of immediate dismissal from a large publicinstitution in Tel Aviv. These Sephardo-Mizrahi curses are the mostaccurate benchmarks for ascertaining the character of the hatred theSephardo-Mizrahi Jews hold against the Ashkenazim, and the best way tosee the difference between this hatred and the corresponding Ashkenazihatred. The common Ashkanazi insult, against the Sephardim, is “frenk