The Ashkenazi Revolution

281fresh with false propaganda that never has, and never will, leave them.Sasson and Tabib cannot drink from the Ashkenazi well and also spit intoit; either one or the other. They should leave the Ashkenazi political andcultural scene.10When I wrote about the study of Yiddish in the schools of the governmenteducational system, I did not mean that this study should be mandatory.The children of Sepharad, and also the children of Ashkenaz, whoseparents do not approve of this study, can be exempt from it. Moreover:We should offer maximum aid for every cultural campaign and projectwhose purpose is to bolster the culture of each and every people among theSephardo-Mizrahi peoples. As a matter of fact, let the Sephardo-Mizrahimdevelop their cultures and let Ashkenaz develop its culture. Such a policywill allow the Jews of the State of Israel to recognize, through comparison,the relative value of each culture. The great victory of Ashkenazi culture,in this competitive war, is guaranteed from the start.The Sephardic leaders must understand that the integration of exiles is notobligatory but optional, it is not Torah from Mount Sinai and it is not aneverlasting obligation but a political policy, a political line of thinking thatcan be abandoned and replaced with another line of thinking that is totallydifferent. Ashkenaz has the right to blow up into pieces, one fine morning,all the concepts that sprang from this primary principle whose name is theintegration of exiles, and to replace them with differenct concepts. Ben-Gurion himself recoiled in terror from this concept, and even hurried toreject it and stigmatize it. Why, if so, is it forbidden for Ashkenazim toleave the trap that he, himself, left after he placed all the other Ashkenazimwithin it? The line of thinking that brought about the riots of Wadi Salib isa new political line of thinking among the Sephardic leaders, a line ofthinking that was created due to a change of circumstances. Why, then, isit forbidden for Ashkenazim to change this line of thinking and to take adifferent path?