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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Mizrachim
If they give back the territories, the Arabs will stop coming to work, and then and there you'll put us back into the dead-end jobs, like before. If for no other reason, we won't let you give back those territories … Look at my daughter: she works in a bank now, and every evening an Arab comes to clean the building. All you want is to dump her from the bank into some textile factory, or have her wash the floors instead of the Arab. The way my mother used to clean for you. That's why we hate you here. As long as Begin's in power, my daughter's secure at the bank. If you guys come back, you'll pull her down first thing. (A (fictional?) Mizrachi resident of Beit-Shemesh, a development town, to novelist Amos Oz
(Oz 1984: 36)The dominant status of Ashkenazim in Israeli society is commonly explained by reference to their having been the pioneers, the earlier Jewish settlers in the country. Massive Mizrachi immigration took place only after 1948, so the argument goes, and by then the old-timer Ashkenazim, especially those belonging to the LSM, had laid the foundations for a new institutional edifice in which they occupied the commanding heights. On this interpretation, chronology, without regard to social interests and conflicts, was directly transposed into history.
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