It is possible that the entry of Itamar Ben Gvir into the political arena, this time as a candidate with prospects, and not as an electoral joke, expresses a change in the political awareness of a large Mizrahi public; This is a Mizrahi public, the majority of which previously voted for Likud and Shas and factions of right-wing parties, the same public towards which Eli Yishai directed his first political campaign outside of Shas about seven years ago; It seems now that Yishai was ahead of his time, and the ripening of the new eastern political recognition, and of the new political power, may be harvested by Ben Gvir; If he does pick these fruits, it will express the deepening of the destruction of eastern values, even beyond the unconditional emotional vote for Likud.

The unconditional vote for Likud has been going on since 1977. It has its origins in the Ashkenazi racial attack against the Jewish East, which began in the middle of the 19th century, and which ripped the culture of the Jewish East from the emerging Israeli cultural scene. This political tearing from the new cultural heart that began to beat, brought years of suffering, poverty and crime to the East, and its political response, even if it was delayed, came in 1977, and it continues as mentioned until today.

The Jewish Eastern culture became extinct because of the Ashkenazi attack and the lack of political recognition, and no one knows today what the Eastern culture is, and what it would look like now if it had won the same political recognition during the Jewish revival as its Ashkenazi sister did. Therefore, the only way to compare what is happening in the political and cultural arena today in comparison to the vanished Eastern culture, is to gather its motives from the East during the long years of exile; This is not a job for a few lines, nor for one person, but it is completely transparent that in none of these motives, certainly not in the Mizrachi family structure, and in the Jewish Mizrachi education, will not be found an extreme and toxic public view like the one that shines from Ben Gvir's party. And this time this view to which this public connects, does not appear to be a continuation of the emotional vote for Likud, but rather a refinement of a new political view that is being woven in the Jewish East, and this is new, although it is possible that this is the development of social feeling; In any case, now this is a political view like any political view in the Israeli arena. Does this recognition stem from emotional processes as mentioned? for sure. And so does every other political view derive. But there is a significant social nuance here that is related to the Israeli political history of the Mizrahi public, which is briefly described here, and it is very worthwhile to pay attention to this small difference; Because the impact of this process on the internal political arena, and on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be significant and profound.

It seems that Bezalel Smotritz understood the eastern evolution, better than others in the political arena, when he strove to close a deal with Ben Gvir. He saw this broad eastern movement at the perfect electoral timing. In the past, Bezalel Smotritz was not enthusiastic about going with Ben Gvir and did not act to that end. This time he didn't seem keen to do it either, but this time he worked towards it. The result of their joint walk is a leadership whose two parts have the same power, one Ashkenazi and the other authentic Mizrahi, in a way that expresses the Israeli social and cultural structure, in contrast to the fundamentally broken structure of Israeli politics; In this sense, this is a healthy political process, woven around a political view that is sick in its extremes, and toxic, in the sense that it is contrary to everything we know (from a quick scroll) about the Jewish East. In the significant political existence of this view, if such an existence will indeed occur, Ben Gvir adds to the destruction of Eastern culture.