The Ashkenazi Revolution

254Ashkenazi community, and in spite of all my efforts, I was unable toacquire it. The Hebrew science of linguistics also behaves like this;burying things and making them disappear, so that only a few of those whodeal with it dare to point out the immense debt that Modern Hebrew owesto Yiddish. We should take note that the dictionary of Even Shoshan, to itsdisgrace, fails to recognize any specific instance, expression or figure ofspeech in Modern Hebrew that has its origin in Yiddish. Regarding wordswhose origins are not from Yiddish, Ben Shoshan is careful to point out theorigin, for example with the word til he points out that its origin is Turkish,but the very existence of Yiddish is completely absent from the knowledgeof Avraham Even Shoshan. The Kibbutz movement strives to stress itsaccomplishments to everybody, and toward this need, it makes unpredentedefforts. But this movement looks, with great displeasure, upon any authorwho rises from its ranks and tries to describe the intimate workings of itsmembers critically. Such an author is even likely to be judged harshly if heopens too wide a window.3The framework of the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples, in which the nationfinds itself, and the three experiments - which have strayed far from theprevious safe haven but have not yet reached a new safe haven - have giventhe social order of the nation a crumbling and exceedingly counterfeit form.The classic time of the current regime of this nation is counterfeit time.The present of this time is inflated beyond belief, in order to emphasize theimportance and power of the experiments, and in contrast, the past has beendistorted while the future is forgotten. Every past is beholden to thisframework of time, and every present is inflated within it, including thepast and present of the ruling Labor movement. It appears that the motto ofthis movement is “distort the past, inflate the present and ignore the future.”The distortion of the past expresses itself in the twisting of the true essenceof the Jewish Diaspora, and in ignoring the contributions of hostile, andunfriendly, Jewish forces in the founding of the state. In the Labormovement they manufacture books according to the tactics of the movieindustry, but among these books, most of which are dedicated to politics, it