Ramzy Baroud: Civil War On The Horizon? The Ashkenazi-Sephardic Conflict And Israel’s Future
For Netanyahu and his supporters, a compromise is not possible because it would only signal the return of the balancing act that started in the early 1980s. For the Ashkenazi power base, submission would mean the end of Israel’s David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, and others—essentially, the end of Zionism itself. With no possible compromise in sight, civil war in Israel becomes a real possibility.