The Ashkenazi Revolution

78the West, the French and the English. Without this sympathy, Ashkenazwould have been blocked from exiting and would have been stuck in a trap.At this fateful stage, Sepharad quickly stabbed Ashkenaz in the back with aknife. The Atlantic area was large enough to accommodate the needs oftwo Jewish peoples. But, for fear that a small portion of itself would beswallowed up, Sepharad decided to block the path before Ashkenaz. IfSepharad were able to form a line of armed guards at the boundaries ofWestern Europe, to prevent an Ashkenazi exit, it would have done so. Butsince it was unable to do this, it took up the weapons of slander anddefamation. This was the Sephardic leaders’ version of the “integration ofexiles”. This was also the first time Ashkenaz had experienced contactwith other Jewish peoples that showed such a degree of “solidarity” towardAshkenaz. This lesson was sure to bring Ashkenaz to the conclusion that itmust minimize its ties to Sepharad and the Confederacy of Jewish Peoples,and to solve its problems on its own, but things developed in a completelydifferent direction.Chapter 5The Collapse of the Roman World and the Ashkenazi Question1In the year 55 B.C.E., Julius Caesar battled two German tribes that hadcrossed the Rhine and established themselves, as mercenaries, under theauthority of the rebellious Gauls. When the fighting and treaty negotiationswith the leaders of these two tribes had ceased, a small sector of Germanscaused a minor violation of the treaty, apparently by accident. JuliusCaesar used this fact as an excuse to slaughter the Germans to the lastwoman and child without leaving even one soul alive. On the heels of thisaction, the emperor erected a bridge over the Rhine and his soldiers crossedthe river, spreading out on its other side. There was the impression that heintended to conquer Germany, but thought better of it and chose towithdraw, considering the Rhine to be the border of the empire. Later, inthe days of Augustus, little by little the German territories west of the Elba