[zarf]

I thought Israel was an apartheid state?

[TheSpottedOwl]

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin, speaking alongside Shalom, said that while Ethiopian Jews had the right to go anywhere in the world, the Ethiopian government would not want the departures this time to take the form of a mass exodus.

"The Ethiopian government has no objection for the Ethiopian Jews to travel to Israel," Seyoum said. "(But) in today's Ethiopia, there is no need for an organized intervention as in the 1980s and 1990s."

And this means what?

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[eleni121]

Many of Ethiopia's Jews were forced to convert to Christianity in the 19th century and now wish to assert their Jewishness and emigrate to Israel.

This is patently untrue. There was any force used.

If anything these people are seeking economic advantage in emigrating to Israel.

[No.6]

Out of Babylon, they are going to Zion, mon.

[cardinal4]

Well, theres 18000 more people to offset the influx of murdering savages, er, Palestinians..

[Cinnamon Girl]

I don't understand the Ethiopian government's objection to a "mass exodus." If they are allowing the 18,000 to go to Israel, what difference if they go all at once or little by little? What business is it of Ethiopia's?

[evets]

Will they be bringing the Ark of the Covenant with?