The Ashkenazi Revolution

225has always been secret: To damage and to punish Ashkenaz in order toconquer, for itself, superiority within the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples.And the main thing: To damage and punish the Ashkenazim in the State ofIsrael in order to marginalize them and to dispossess them of it. Betweenthis opinion of Ben Haroush, the rabble that gathered around him, and theopinion of the honorable Sephardic leader, the late Y. Nitzani, the Knessetmember from Mapai, there is no fundamental difference. Both Haroushand Nitzani believe that the main role of Ashkenaz, in Israel, is to “fund”the Sephardo-Mizrahi settlement. Except that, according to Ben Haroush,this “funding” role has already been completed and there is therefore nojustification for keeping the Ashkenazim in the State of Israel, and theyshould be pressured to leave and let the Sephardo-Mizrahim have it all tothemselves, with the exception of those Ashkenazim who agree toassimilate among the Sephardo-Mizrahi majority and to subject themselvesto its rule. This is the final meaning the Sephardic leaders attach to theriots of Wadi Salib and similar riots, but, alongside this final meaning, andas part of it, they see riots such as Wadi Salib as an effective means toextort more concessions from the Ashkenazim, and more and more, inorder to weaken our status in such a way that this status will collapseentirely under the final, and great, Wadi Salib attacks, which will take theform of organized armed activism, as they see fit.Ben Haroush himself arrived in the Land of Israel from North Africa, andthere is no doubt that he was greatly influenced by the Algerian rebellion,that he made comparisons between the situation in Algeria and the nascentsituation in the State of Israel after the great waves of Sephardo-Mizrahimigration, which turned the Ashkenazim into a minority. Before the arrivalof the French to Algeria, the indigenous population numbered some half amillion to three quarters of a million and its natural increase was slow dueto scarcity and illness. The French regime created conditions that werefavorable for quick natural increase, rather like an “internal migration”, ona vast scale. This natural increase, which the French brought about, was atthe same time a thorn in the side of French rule in Algeria, and it wasexpelling French colonists from the country. The French colonists werenot able to compete with the natives when it came to natural fertility, and