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187who were stricken, injured and of minor stature and the great andabundantly healthy Ashkenaz. This impartial horror, which we did notbring about – we have an excellent alibi – Abaas dressed up as a terriblecrime that Ashkenaz perpetrated, so to speak, upon the Sephardo-Mizrahipeoples by way of failing to heal their wounds immediately… From thethroat of Abaas comes the shrill scream and rebuke of a nationalism thathad been humbled from a national perspective, and destroyed from a socialperspective. <strong>The</strong> socialist dialectic, which Abaas had inherited for himselffrom the framework of the kibbutz and the Labor movement, he did not usein order to confront the Sephardic leaders, or the wealthy members of theSephardo-Mizrahi nations who had abandoned their people. No. Thisdialectic serves him one purpose only: To attack Ashkenaz. Abaas entirelyforgets that in World War II, the <strong>Ashkenazi</strong> People lost 9 million people, 6million were murdered by Hitler and 3 million were captives of SovietRussia, and that after this terrible tragedy, we have complete permission totend only to our own wounds, and if we have done so much for theSephardo-Mizrahi peoples, this is a unique deed. This reckoning does notinterest Abaas at all. He sees only the Sephardic wound and he demandsthat Ashkenaz see only it.In issue 1 of “Tribe and People”, from the year 1954, Abaas published anarticle that became something of a standard for the Sephardic leaders intheir war against the <strong>Ashkenazi</strong> “ways of darkness”. In his use of statisticalfigures that illustrate the fact that everybody already knows, the smallnumber of Sephardo-Mizrahi people in higher levels of variousorganizations, Abaas claims this fact is entirely due to those ways ofdarkness. In this article, Abaas also brings marriage statistics that show thesmall number of <strong>Ashkenazi</strong> to non-<strong>Ashkenazi</strong> marriages, in particular non-<strong>Ashkenazi</strong>m from Asian and African lands. This phenomenon is also oneof the types of accusations that Abaas levels, in his writ of accusation,against Ashkenaz. <strong>The</strong> right of each person to choose his mate is one ofthe most sacred human rights. However, if a young <strong>Ashkenazi</strong> man orwoman, or their parents, uses this right in order to specifically choose an<strong>Ashkenazi</strong> mate, Abaas sees this as oppression against the Sephardo-Mizrahi peoples… We should not blame only Abaas for this unspeakable

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