The Ashkenazi Revolution

203assessment will give them the correct answers to all the practical questionsthat come up in daily Israeli life.11The second decision that the Sephardo-Mizrahi nations must make relatesto their relationship to Ashkenazi identity. What are we in their eyes?Their words, and their authors, go out of their way to prove that there is nodifference between them and us; that only external circumstance, which areeasily changed, created the Ashkenazi advantage. This approach seeshistory as if it is a large game of chance, like the lottery, in which the cardthat bears the name “Ashkenaz” wins the grand prize. If this were the case,and if we were to accept this opinion of the Sephardic and Yemeniteleaders, then we would be able to cast, from our shoulders, allresponsibility and all solidarity with the other tribes of Israel. Those whowin the grand prize do not owe anything to those of lesser luck, or to thosewho threw their money into the pot. They are even exempt from incometax. The principle of the lottery says that he who wins the wealth is the onewho is worthy of that wealth, and everybody else must simply accept hislot. Moreover: Had the Sephardo-Mizrahi peoples viewed Ashkenaz as apeople on the same level as themselves, then they would not be turning tous for aid, and they would not be presenting us with their never-endingdemands. For these peoples lack almost any sort of solidarity. TheSephardim hate the Yemenites, the Yemenites the Babylonians, theBabylonians the North Africans, and so on. If not for Ashkenaz, theywould be tearing each other up. The fact that these peoples turn to us forhelp, and accept our customs as natural, is convincing proof that there is nocomparison between us. Verily, there is no comparison, there was nocomparison, there will be no comparison, and it is forbidden that there be acomparison, for Ashkenaz is the chosen people among the Jewish peoples.Just as the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples is special, among the peoples ofthe world, so too is the Ashkenazi People the chosen people among theJewish peoples. The partnered appearance of the Sephardo-Mizrahipeoples under the banner of “Eastern Ethnicities” serves to somewhat blurthe ridiculousness of the confrontation between Ashkenaz and the non-