The Ashkenazi Revolution

244according to need and opportunity. Ashkenaz is overwhelminglymasculine. He disregards the external. He seeks fear-inspiring depths inorder to dive into them and reveal their treasures. But at the same time heis excessively naïve like a child. Sepharad had gotten too much. She hadsucceeded too much. She had caused too much damage. Ashkenaz mustdistance himself from her from now on, and he must free himself from thefeminine domain of those who engage in rejoicing, pleas, emotionalconfrontations and other sneaky feminine tactics. Ashkenaz must pass intothe masculine realm of strikes of logic that are direct and that crush allbefore them.12In my conversations with Ashkenazim, on the topic of “ethnicity”, many ofthose I spoke with changed the topic to that of an argument they had withBen-Gurion. “These are the favorites of Ben-Gurion, and they are preciousto him”, they said. In these conversations, I was shocked, and I was evenhorrified by the emmense hatred that many Ashkenazim harbor towardBen-Gurion for his paternalistic advocacy on behalf of the Sephardo-Mizrahim. Over and over again it happened to me that, at that particularpoint, the Ashkenazim I was conversing with were taken with hystericalemotion and shouted, “He brought them!” As they shouted this, theyexpressed their hatred toward Ben-Gurion, which permeated their souls andwaits for the opportunity of relief.Verily, Ben-Gurion overdid his job as an honest protectionist advocate forthe Sephardo-Mizrahim. Every blemish, every imperfection, every humanweakness that arises and demands rebuke, finds in him an advocate, as longas it is found in the Sephardo-Mizrahim. Ben-Gurion curses andblasphemes, in the language of the streets, his enemies and opponents, andhurls abuse and abominations at the legendary Ashkenazi civilization inAmerica. But he finds, over and over, all sorts of reasons and explanationsto excuse the horrifying revelations about the backwardness of theSephardo-Mizrahim. This retardation is not entirely the result of thebackwardness of Eastern lands (Poland and Belorussia were also not very