Families of 500 Ethiopian Israeli IDF soldiers to be brought to Israel

[shira]

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday he will work to bring the families of some 500 Ethiopian Israeli soldiers to Israel immediately and to advance the immigration of the of the rest of the 7,000 member Jewish Ethiopian community.

“I have a strong will to bring the rest of Ethiopian Jewry [to Israel], and I hope that I will be able to do so in my role as interior minister,” Shalom said at a joint meeting between the Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Committee and the Interior Committee at the Knesset.

Shalom said he would go over the lists of Ethiopian Jews waiting to come to Israel, including those who were refused entry in the past, adding that he already had met with Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit on Sunday to discuss pushing forward a government decision on the matter.

“We are talking about only 6,000 to 7,000 people, that Israel should and must contain.

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Families-of-500-Ethiopian-Israeli-IDF-soldiers-to-be-brought-to-Israel-410296

[Little Tich]

1. It's always a good thing when people are given a chance to a better life.

While I may not approve of the selection process, which is preferential towards one particular ethnicity, it would be ghoulish to say that these people shouldn't be allowed to come and live in Israel.

I hope everything works out, and I wish them all the best in their new home.

[GeoWilliam750]

2. I second your opinion

[guillaumeb]

3. How much Palestinian land will the Israelis steal to provide space for these

immigrants? Interesting example, not that any more are needed, of the immense double standard.

[6chars]

4. about 1 square mile each

[guillaumeb]

5. Which will leave about a football field sized piece of land to comprise the Palestinian "homeland".

Surround it with a fence, but no gate, and the "Greater Israel Project" will be Biblically complete.