The Ashkenazi Revolution

199the State of Israel, and for those who are guilty of the terrible tragedy. Butthere will come a day when the Ashkenazi People will do an assessment ofits situation, and those who are guilty of this situation, and this day will bea day of rage. Sephardic pressure upon the Ashkenazi People in the Stateof Israel is likely to accelerate this development and this revolution, and toworsen the tension in relations between the two parts of the Jewishpopulation in the State of Israel. This deterioration of relations will arriveagainst a dark historical background. For over two hundred years, theAshkenazi and Sephardic communities have been at serious odds with eachother. The Sephardic leaders struck, by way of their slanders, against theefforts of the Ashkenazi People to move westward. The Ashkenazi-Sephardi conflict in France was so severe that an Ashkenazi-Sephardi warwithin France was, perhaps, more justified than a German-French war. Butthis war was not possible because these two Jewish peoples moved on theplane of time only. Now the situation is different. In the State of Israel,these two peoples stand face to face, on solid ground, just like in the daysof the First Temple, and by virtue of this, the clash between them turns intoan actual nightmare. It is incumbent upon the Ashkenazi People, on oneside, and the Sephardo-Mizrahi peoples on the other, to be careful and levelheaded: And it is the role of a responsible political writer to lay bare thedangers, and to emphasize the painful points regarding which each side isrequired to be considerate of the other.10The Sephardim are always calculating the score between themselves andthe Ashkenazim, but on the other hand, they rarely make comparisonsbetween themselves and Spain. That is to say, between themselves, aspeople of the 20 th century, and the Jewish-Pyrenees civilization that reachedits apex in the “golden age”. It is necessarily this calculation that matters.If they would only do it, they would discover that the great men of Spaingave them mainly cultural tools and not history-making tools, and this factalready became evident in the first great test, after the Spanish Inquisition.This expulsion was truly child’s play compared to the woes that weresuffered by Ashkenaz, but it broke Sepharad and, from that time, it has