The Ashkenazi Revolution

249with Ephraim at its head, on the other side. The separation between Judahand Israel, which is one of the earliest separations in the world, has existedsome three thousand five hundred years.At the end of the 19 th century, and at the beginning of the twentieth century,it was encumbant upon Ashkenaz to define itself as the modern Judah, andto decide that, under no circumstances, would it march together with theIsrael of today, that is to say, with the collection of Sephardo-Mizrahipeoples. Ashkenaz was obliged to march alone, alone and separate, tocreate an exclusively Ashkenazi civilization upon one of the newcontinents, and afterwards to create, in the Land of Israel, an Ashkenazicivilization, and to bring to this nation, after its establishment, a number ofSephardo-Mizrahim that is consistent, more or less, with their proportionwithin the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples. Any argument for integration,or about cultural character, would have been unnecessary and ridiculous.We would have had to present the Sephardo-Mizrahi peoples with theoption of either joining the Ashkenazi civilization in the Land of Israel andaccepted it as it is, or leaving us alone. Before the Holocaust we weresome 95 percent of the entirety of the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples, andtoday we constitute 85 percent, and this proportional percentage determinedalso the portion of the State of Israel that Sepharad deserves. All logicpointed to the necessity of a separate path for Ashkenaz. Moreover: TheBiblical description of the tribes-peoples of Israel can be seen as an explicitBiblical warning that cautions the Jewish peoples about each other. Thelargest tribe in particular, Judah of the past and Ashkenaz of the present, iscommanded to be careful since it arouses great jealousy in the hearts of thesmaller Jewish peoples. This tribe, Judah of the past and Ashkenaz of thepresent, is also equipped with all the qualities that allow it to marchseparately, and free itself from any dependency upon the Confederacy ofJewish Peoples. The lofty Jewish qualities, the dedication, the love ofjustice, faithfulness, innocence etc. are expressed in the inner lives of everytribe-people. But the negative Jewish qualities are expressed in therelationship between the tribes-peoples. This field of intertribal relations isa field of horrors and sin within Jewish life. These relationships are foundto this day, and they will always be found at the level of the relationship