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Omar Barghouti e-mailde me dit:

'While Israel and the Zionist movement are seeking -- often inventing -- Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Latin America, India (the northern part, with the lighter complexion), among other locations, they are doing their best to limit the influx of Ethiopian Jews (Falashmura), subjecting them to unique vetting processes, not applied to the Russian -- read white -- immigrants, for instance, many, if not most, of whom are Christians.

Despite the now admitted drought in the number of "right" Jews (white, that is) wishing to move to Israel, and notwithstanding its dire need to ensure a steady influx of immigrants to maintain its settler-colonial project, the entire Zionist establishment is now openly blocking the arrival of black Jews from Ethiopia and subjecting those of them who are already in Israel to racial discrimination in many vital domains.

Well, the Ethiopians have served their propaganda purpose years ago -- no need for more of that "type" of Jews around, it seems.

Omar

'Haaretz 29/09/2008
Watchdog: State's decision to limit Falashmura aliyah was 'reasonable'
By Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz Correspondent

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss has said that the government acted properly when it decided to limit the number of Falashmura (descendants of Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity) entering Israel, and stop bringing members of the community here. At the same time, Lindenstrauss proposed to the government that, for humanitarian reasons, it should examine the eligibility for immigration of some 3,200 additional Falashmura who have yet to be scrutinized.The state comptroller was asked 10 months ago to issue a ruling on the government's conduct regarding Falashmura immigration, at the behest of the Knesset's State Control Committee. As part of his investigation of the issue, Lindenstrauss, a former judge, visited the Falashmura compounds in Ethiopia. The comptroller was asked to look into two aspects of the issue. First: Did the government renege on its decision in principle from 2003 to allow the arrival of Falashmura members who fit the criteria for family reunifications and were born of "the seed of Israel," when two years later it decided to limit the number of Falashmura who would immigrate to Israel and stopped bringing them altogether this year? And second: Was there a contradiction between the 26,000 potentially eligible Falashmura immigrants ascertained by a survey carried out in 1999, and the 17,000 on the list prepared by the Interior Ministry in 2003?Lindenstrauss effectively accepted the ministries' and Jewish Agency's position on both counts. Regarding the government decisions, he stated that there was an apparent contradiction between the two decisions and they should have been phrased more meticulously, but that in practice there was nothing preventing the government from taking a decision about the Falashmura's eligibility to immigrate and at a later stage taking an "operative" decision to limit their number. Regarding the gaps between the lists of those eligible, the comptroller said that the existence of two separate lists was known to decision makers all along, and while there is no clear explanation for the contradiction, it can be attributed, among other things, to the great difficulty in obtaining exact figures about the various population groups in Ethiopia. The comptroller rejected the claims of the politicians and organizations acting on behalf of the Falashmura that demand the government continues to bring them here and, as a first step, examine the eligibility for immigration of 8,700 Falashmura who, the organizations say, are currently in the compounds in Gondar in northern Ethiopia. The comptroller also received data prepared by the Jewish Agency and first published about three months ago, which included a follow-up on some 29,000 people who expressed the wish to come to Israel - and from whose midst some 23,000 did indeed immigrate. Basing himself on these data, Lindenstrauss proposed that the government considers re-examining, for "humanitarian" reasons, the eligibility of 3,2000 Falashmura mentioned in the 1999 survey but whose eligibility was not examined because they did not submit requests to immigrate, or on whose behalf no requests for immigration were submitted as part of family reunions. Lindenstrauss believes that it will be difficult to trace some of them, while the examination will reveal that some are not eligible. He writes, however, that despite the fact that "from an administrative point of view the government's decision is valid and the significance is that the list should not be reopened," nevertheless "from the humanitarian point of view" it is worthwhile considering an additional examination. Lindenstrauss' opinion is in keeping with the High Court of Justice's recommendation from January stating that the government "would do wisely" to examine the eligibility of additional members of the Falashmura, so that it will be possible to allow another 1,100 to immigrate here and reach the quota of 17,000 stipulated in the government decision from 2005. Last week, the government decided "as an extraordinary gesture" to act according to the High Court recommendation, and in the coming months the Interior Ministry will examine the eligibility of additional Falashmura in order to allow about a thousand additional members who meet the criteria to immigrate to Israel. What the comptroller did not ask...'

Lees verder: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1023827.html

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