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Famine victims wait outside a relief center during the 1984 drought.
Another such disaster is said to be imminent.
Ethiopian Jews have
migrated to the Ethiopian
capital of Addis Ababa, where
there is little housing and few
ways of making a living, Re-
cant said.
Activists have been unable
to sway the Ethiopian govern-
ment to consider the renewed
emigration of Ethiopian Jews,
even as a way of relieving the
government's burden of aid.
In a recent news conference in
Washington, for example,
Kassa Kebede, Ethiopia's am-
bassador to the United Na-
tions in Geneva, repeated
Ethiopian government claims
that Operation Moses was a
"forcible abduction," and that
religion is not a cause for
Ethiopians to be allowed to
leave.
According to the Near East
Report, a Washington-based
newsletter that reported
Kebede's comments, a
meeting on the subject at the
United Nations in September
between Shimon Peres,
Israel's foreign minister, and
his Ethiopian counterpart
was "unsatisfactory."
Recant of AAEJ feels that
the donor countries that are
making up the bulk of
Ethiopia's shortfall can
pressure Mengistu to allow
the emigration of Jews to
continue.
"Donor nations should
bring up the fact (to the
Ethiopians) that 'if you allow
some people to leave it would
be easier for us to continue
giving aid'," said Recant.
International donors have
made commitments to supply
582,000 tons of relief food, ac-
cording to Kassis. Earlier this
month, AID pledged 115,000
additional tons of food, bring-
ing the agency's total commit-
ment to 272,000 tons.
Meantime, private
volunteer organizations such
as JDC and the Boston-based
American Jewish World Ser-
vice are continuing to provide
relief and development
assistance to Ethiopia on a
non-sectarian basis.
During the Interfaith
Hunger Appeal mission,
JDC's Cooperstock met with
Berhanu Jambare, chief of
Ethiopia's Relief and
Rehabilitation Commission,
who reiterated the govern-
ment's support for JDC's
various agricultural and
public health projects in
Gondar.
The fortunes of all Ethio-
pians, however, may lie in the
generosity of the donor com-
munity. Relief officials agree
that improved monitoring so
far has staved off disaster and
that international com-
mitments should be sufficient
for the first few months of
1988.
Beyond that, officials are
concerned that individual
donors respond more quickly
than they did three years ago.
As the Interfaith Hunger Ap-
peal's Coll explained, "We
hope people will respond
before they see the swollen
bellies on TV."