The Ashkenazi Revolution

211There is no administrative propaganda or measure that can prevent theformation of two peoples in Israel. These two peoples already exist today,but their final forms have not yet been fixed, and the public has not yetmade peace with this fact. “The Second Israel” is the second Jewish Peoplethat exists in the State of Israel. This people was not created in the state,but in various Afro-Asiatic lands, and they were only brought to the state inthe great waves of immigration that consumed entire Mideastern diasporas.The retardation that characterizes these classes creates a partition ofmarriage between them and the more cultured classes, and it eternalizestheir status as a people unto themselves. It is possible to claim that this isnot a second People of Israel, but the backward classes of one People ofIsrael. But the first description is the correct one, and the second is onlywishful thinking. The specific status partitions, that preventedintermarriage between the two classes, had almost disappeared in themodern age, and only the level of human quality, and of the approach totime, remains. If a very large class of people, such as the backward people,has no marriage contact with the other classes, then this makes it a peopleunto itself, and it is best to recognize this fact than to ignore it.There is much confusion and misunderstanding surrounding this idea of theintegration of exiles. The political parties speak of it and make unrealisticpromises regarding the integration of exiles, and when the promises are notfulfilled, people approach them with complaints and accuse them of falsepropaganda. It should, however, be clarified that there is a great differencebetween the promises of political parties, in this matter, whose name is theintegration of exiles, and their promises in other matters. In the latter case,the ruling political party has far-reaching influence. It is able to supplyauthorization, and all sorts of other encouragement, for whatever plans itdesires, to raise salaries, or not to raise salaries, etc. for the final decision istheirs. But this is not the case in the realm of the integration of exiles. Thefinal step in this matter is marriage, and this decision is not that of politicalparties, but of private individuals, young men and young women and theirparents, who act as they see fit. Moreover: The decision is not only that ofthe young couple, who consist of members of two Jewish peoples, but also