Ethiopian Israelis find out not all Jews are created 'Chosen'!

By James P. Tucker Jr.

It is becoming difficult if not impossible for Jews to become Israeli citizens if their skin is dark. Israel is slamming the door on Jews from Ethiopia. The situation is analogous to problems in the United States when Negroes moved into white neighborhoods.

They come from the Gondar region of northern Ethiopia, where donkeys are used for transportation, there are no bathrooms and no formal education. They move into industrialized areas where they must learn Hebrew, master a cell phone and settle among immigrants from dozens of countries, including Argentina, Yemen, Australia and the United States.

When massive immigration began more than 30 years ago, these Ethiopians were recognized outright as Jews. Israel at first balked at accepting them, but relented when American Jews campaigned on behalf of the Falash Mura. Jews worldwide wanted to fill Israel’s population on what had been Palestinian land for centuries. So 40,000 Ethiopian dark-skinned Jews moved into Israel, joining 80,000 already there. Israel had a total population of seven million. Classic, lighter-skinned Jews reacted to the darkskinned, illiterate, unskilled Jews settling among them the same as American whites reacted to Negroes settling into their neighborhoods after socalled “open-housing legislation” passed more than three decades ago. Housing values dropped as crime gripped the neighborhoods. There was “white flight” to the more expensive suburbs less affordable to Negroes. When the nation’s capital integrated its schools in 1954, “white flight” included almost the entire Congress. Only one senator, the late Henry Jackson of Washington, kept his kids in Washington’s public schools, but that was in a rich section on Foxhall Road, which remained all-white for years.

But dark-skinned Jews are effectively banned from Israel now, the Associated Press reports. “The Israeli government has decided that the influx must stop,” the Associated Press revealed. “They are poor,

plagued by crime, violence and substance abuse. Most go straight on welfare.”

This is also similar to the border problems in the United States. Immigrants from South America, legal and illegal, are a burden on American taxpayers. The average immigrant family of four costs taxpayers more than $4,000 a year in free medical care and welfare. But, unlike the United States, Israel is protecting its borders, including those established in the brutal, illegal occupation of the Gaza Strip, seized in the Six-Day War in 1967.