The Ashkenazi Revolution

235against the minor Sephardo-Mizrahi peoples, even if they experiencewonderful improvement culturally.He who demands the closing of the gap, and a bridging of the deepdifferences, at any cost, has necessarily taken a dangerous path. Culturalsuperiority is always linked with hereditary and environmental factors,which are very difficult to uproot. In the best scenario, it would takecenturies to uproot these forces. But the equality movement is not willingto wait for many generations. It wants to see its dream realized within itslifetime. Sooner or later, a movement like this hits the solid wall ofhereditary factors that prevent it from reaching its goal. At this point,extreme elements, within the equality movement, decide that there remainsonly one path to reach its goal, and that means the expulsion, or murder,from its midst, of the human group that holds the superiority of its mindand soul. Many equality movements have turned, over the course of time,into movements that murder, and illiminate, their opponents. The soldiersof Marius systematically murdered the leaders of the Roman aristocracy.The French masses of the great revolution murdered the nobles. TheRussian Revolution brought physical devestation upon the higher classes ofRussia: The nobles, the kulaks, the bourgeoisie and a large portion of theintelligentsia. The Jews were victims, over and over again, of the rage thattheir superiority aroused. The Jews of Spain were expelled because theirsuperiority was like a thorn in the eye of the ruling class. For the samereason Hitler murdered the Jews of Europe. Superiority ignites thedangerous flames of jealousy, which are many times worse when they aredirected at a foreign, or quasi-foreign group, that is a minority within thepopulation.We have made incredible efforts to erase the gap. But the results have beenfew. After eighty years of educational, and social, work, we have barelybegun to tackle the environmental and hereditary forces that sit at thefoundation of the retardation. It is not possible to close the gap entirely.Even those Ashkenazim who believe in the closing of the gap speak of along process that will last centuries. But the Sephardo-Mizrahi equalitymovement refuses to wait. It demands that we close the gap as quickly as