re: #19 Destro

Yea, fairy tale pie in the sky story if you know that these Ethiopian Jews are denied their homeland’s version of Jewish religion and made to convert to the state version of Judaism. What is bullshit is the story that the Ethiopian Jews are a lost tribe of Israle and being returned “home”, when they share neither the language nor the traditions nor the same Judaism as the state religion.

Their homeland’s version of Jewish religion was forced conversion to Christianity. Yes, if they want to emigrate to Israel, which again nobody is forcing them to do, they have to do it as Jews, duh.

It is to me European colonialism at its worst.

LOL. Your sense of European colonialism must be remarkably sanitized then. There is no coercion here to emigrate, no exploitation of natural resources, and no actual colony. Instead minority members of an impoverished third world nation are being given an opportunity to have a life and raise their families in a first world country. Their children will have access to modern education and healthcare instead of a 50% literacy rate and famine.