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Thread ID: 5052 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-02-17
2003-02-17 00:54 | User Profile
It seems that these third world black jews are bringing their third world habits to Israel and are treated by the jews as lower than Jim Crow citizens. I bet they were allowed in the country to only produce unrest with the Palestinians by competing for lower tier jobs, like mestizos with blacks in this country.
[url=http://www.etherzone.com/cgi-bin/news-now/jump.cgi/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2769453.stm]http://www.etherzone.com/cgi-bin/news-now/...ast/2769453.stm[/url]
Israel to accept more Ethiopian Jews
Falashas have had trouble proving their Jewish origins
The Israeli Government has announced that it will allow the immigration of another 20,000 Ethiopians of Jewish origin. Most of them are from the Falash Mura community, who were originally Jewish, but were forced to convert to Christianity in the 19th Century.
The last mass immigration of Ethiopian Jews was in 1991, when Israel organised a dramatic airlift of 15,000 people who had fled fighting at the end of Ethiopia's civil war.
15,000 Jews were airlifted from war-torn Ethiopia in 1991
Israel had previously rejected requests for this new group to immigrate. But following the U-turn by the Israeli Cabinet at its weekly meeting, officials will now be sent to Ethiopia to organise the move.
The move to allow the Ethiopians - 17,000 Falash Mura and 3,000 so-called Falashas - into the country was led by the religious Shas party, which holds the interior ministry.
The BBC's Jerusalem correspondent James Reynolds says that previous immigration attempts by the Falash Mura have been hampered the fact that they have largely been unable to prove they are Jewish.
The Ethiopians have been trying to use the "right of return" - an Israeli law which allows Jews from anywhere in the world to obtain automatic Israeli citizenship.
Discrimination
In January 3,000 Ethiopian immigrants demonstrated outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office to urge the government to allow their relatives to join them even if they could not prove they were Jewish.
The protesters held up pictures of their relatives left behind in Ethiopia, claiming they were "victims of discrimination".
Now Shas has decided that the community has retained its Jewish makeup - that it only converted to Christianity out of fear.
The party has persuaded the cabinet that those who so desire should be allowed to settle in Israel.
About 80,000 Ethiopian Jews already live in Israel. Our correspondent says they remain one of the poorest sections of Israeli society.
Many of them have ended up living in the occupied West Bank and they suffer from a high rate of unemployment and are often the victims of racial prejudice.
2003-02-17 04:30 | User Profile
It's interesting how racially-tiered Israeli society is. Ashkenazim are higher-class citizens than Sephardim, who in turn are higher-class than black-ish jews--and intermarriage between these 'castes' are strongly looked down upon.
This is interesting because whenever the debate comes up about why jews have had such an interest in, say, communism, the defense invariably comes up that they have "an innate sense of egalitarianism". Israel would seem to disprove that.
Drakmal
2003-02-17 04:31 | User Profile
Choke on your own platitudes. I'd give money to any effort which will import Falasha's into Israel. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
2003-02-22 06:08 | User Profile
Drakmal,
That`s a good point you bring up. Of all the claims that Jews make about themselves, that has to be the phoniest. This article is just one more in a series that show that their sense of "social justice" is more sham than anything else.
Why bring Falashas to Israel? Well, after they expell the Palestinians, someone has to pick the fruit. This is a Jewish version of "doing jobs that Jews don`t want to do." :P