The World - News from Feb. 24, 1985
Ethiopia again denounced the Israeli airlift of its black Jews, calling it an act of kidnaping, and urged other nations to pressure the Israelis to send them back immediately. A Foreign Ministry statement contended that the Ethiopian Jews, sometimes called Falashas, are not really Jewish. “The uprooting of a black people, with black civilization, from where they have lived peacefully for centuries is a serious offense not only to Ethiopia and Africa but also to blacks worldwide,” Ethiopia asserted. Israel organized the clandestine airlift of 10,000 or more Jews to save them from devastating famine.
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