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From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: Re: flame! etc. (In re: Yemenite Jews)
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Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 10:37:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 28 10:37:48 1984
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As  far  as  I  know, I have not received any mail from Eliyahu Teitz in
several months.  This could easily by a problem with sendmail  or  other
mail  program at mit-athena or decvax.  We have seen many such problems.
You missed the point of my article.  I  find  condemning  the  left-scum
founders  of  the  state  of  Israel for their treatment of oriental and
Sefardic Jews somewhat hypocritical if you do not also  condemn  perhaps
even  more  strongly  the  contemporary  Ashkenazi religious leaders for
their treatment of Oriental and Sefardic Jews.

These Ashkenazi religious leaders were also  acting  against  their  own
best  interests since the oriental communities which came to Israel were
genuinely  Jewish  (not  accidentally  like  the   vast   majoritiy   of
Ashkenazim).   If  the  Ashkenazi  religious leaders had been willing to
spend a little of  the  money  received  as  war-crime  compensation  on
schools for Sefardim (the first Sefardi religious schools were set up by
the histadrut -- leftist, secularist labor union), the  left-scum  would
have  been  thrown  out  of  the  Israeli government a long time ago and
genuine levantine Jewish observance would have been established  shortly
thereafter.

I  have seen other examples of self-destructiveness among Ashkenazim and
I suspect there may be something fundamentally wrong with the  Ashkenazi
shittah.   Eventually a forced levantinization of the Israeli population
will probably be necessary.  This happens not to be the  Sefardi  style.
As  I  have  pointed  out before, most Sefardim did not know there was a
distinction between Sefardim and Ashkenazim until they came  to  Israel.
Now  a  forced  levantinization  will  probably be necessary because the
left-scum act even crazier since political assertiveness among  Sefardim
has broken the left strangelhold on the nation.

Since  a  forced  levantinization  would essentially mean establishing a
more religious state along Sefardi lines, I expect religious  Ashkenazim
are obligated according to halakah to support such a movement even if it
means the eventual elimination of the Ashkenazi shittah from Israel.