The Ashkenazi Revolution

197After years of in-depth study of the chapter of the gathering, andintegration, of exiles in the State of Israel, after I examined this problem tothe best of my abilities, after I checked it from the historical background ofthe past, the political relationship in the State of Israel, the personalrelationship between Ashkenazim and non-Ashkenazim, after all this study,reading, searching the sources and conversations with tens of Sephardimand Ashkenazim, I reached the conclusion that, from an Ashkenaziperspective, this policy is absurd, frightening and contains horrific dangers.It is absurd because it represents a sudden, and ridiculous, step backwardfrom the path that Ashkenaz had been taking for the last 200 years. Fromthe end of the 17 th century until the era of Ben Yehuda, Ashkenazi Jews hadbeen inheriting the place of the Sephardim, both on the geographical levelof the centers of the world and in the realm of taking the places of honor,among the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples, for creativity. HebrewLiterature changed this natural historical direction and created a newprocess. Through Modern Hebrew, Ashkenazim made a great effort to giveback, to Sepharad, its cultural status and then – for reasons of convenience,to benefit Sepharad, and serve as a catastrophe for Ashkenaz – Sepharadwas given numerical hegemony in the State of Israel, the geographical, andcentral political, position among the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples…9The point of departure for the whole process was, of course, the year 1903.The correct path was to accept the Uganda Proposition. To establish, inEast Africa, a great Ashkenazi civilization, and then to create, in the Landof Israel, an Ashkenazi state in which there would be a set percentage ofSephardo-Mizrahim in the population which corresponds, more or less, totheir percentage within the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples. Moreover: Inthe building of the Hebrew settlement in the Land of Israel under Britishrule, it was necessary to take into consideration the neurosis in theAshkenazi-Sephardi relationship, and to create, through an appropriateplan, a guaranteed Ashkenazi majority for many generations. However, theZionist policy gave a huge preference to Sepharad, and the results did not