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Israel to Arrange Arrival of Last Members of Ethiopian Jewish Community by 2014

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Destro7/09/2012 4:12:18 pm PDT

re: #13 SanFranciscoZionist

They’re not ‘lost Jews’, they’re just Jews. And they’ve been persecuted as Jews. I’m sorry Israel isn’t accepting your definition of who is a Jew, but you’re gonna need to live with it.

I am actually intellectually OK with someone saying what you said. Again I was correcting the assertion that the Ethiopian “Beta Israel” Jews were “returning home”. The reality is the Ethiopian Jews were leaving their homes to enter a new life of refugees in a new land where their own faith as practiced in Ethiopia is forced to end in Israel. Which is ironic because the state of Israel is saving the Ethiopian Jews from persecution per your claim but once they arrive in Israel are forced to end the practice of their faith as they have practiced it.