Friends, you know what I think about Shas and its leaders, in the past Yishai, and in the present Deri, there is no need to repeat the things again. But yesterday Ariel Atias, who was an MK and senior minister, announced his retirement from the Knesset and, in fact, from political life.
I know Atias well (he also lives in the building one floor below). He is among the Shas inspectors. He came to Shas due to his connections with Moshe Yosef (son of) in the "Beit Yosef" meat business, and from there the path to the top was short, otherwise what would he and them do? After all, he is a disciple of the Bnei Barakit Sephardic school, and he despises "Sefarism" even that of Shas? Sephardic ideology has never really interested him.
His current retirement from the Knesset shows what his feelings are about the future... and if along the way he makes his home from the connections that politics has brought him, what is good and what is pleasant.
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But the public that was led should know that true Sephardicism was never anti-Zionist and anti-productive. The character and characteristics of the Sephardim and members of the Mizrahi community are moderation and tolerance, lovers of Israel wherever they are. The exact opposite of Shas. In the era of Maran Rabbi Ovadia, zt"l, by virtue of his personality and other reasons, there could have been a reality of a wink to the moderate Sephardic public, and activity for the opposite Haredi agenda [see entry: IDF recruitment, conversion, shmita, work, etc.].
This era is over, the fog is slowly clearing, and from now on, anyone who does not advocate for a closed, anti-Zionist society of students, who strives to resemble the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox in every way, Shas is not their place, they have nothing to look for there, they will find another home...
His escape from the sinking ship indicates the slow death of a party that purported to raise the profile of the Spaniards but in reality only harmed them, turned peaceful cities into strongholds of extremism, and caused them quite a bit of shame...
