Ethiopian Outrage
Becomes Jewish `War'

Israel's beloved and obviously over-protected
minority stages what some call a Jewish intifada.

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a demonstration by Jews in
Israel as furious and vio-
lent as the one by Ethiopi-
an immigrants outside the Prime
Minister's Office last Jan. 28. It
was commonly compared to the
intifada.
Police, who had expected a
crowd of less than 1,000 and
found themselves up against
more than 10,000, fired tear gas
and rubber bullets. They said it
was the only way to keep the
Prime Mnister's Office from be-
ing overrun.
Protesters, who said police at-
tacked them first, threw rocks
and bottles. They smashed the
windows of dozens of cars in the
parking lot. Police swung billy
-clubs, Ethiopians swung sticks
and umbrellas.
Sixty-two policemen and
demonstrators were hospitalized;
all but two — a policeman with
a badly injured eye and a pro-
tester with a fractured skull —
were released within hours.
Whoever started the violence,
it worked wonders for the Ethiopi-
ans' cause. Because of the wrath
displayed by people always known
for their geniality and passivity,
the 60,000 Ethiopian immigrants
of Israel suddenly had the sym-
pathy and urgent attention of the
government and public.

Their protest also was likened
to the "Black Panther" movement
of Israel's early '70s, when poor
Sephardi Jews, long seen as sec-
ond-class citizens by the Ashke-
nazi establishment, boiled out of
the urban slums and fought po-
lice in the streets. From that
point on, Sephardi complaints of
discrimination would no longer
be treated lightly.
The Ethiopians finally learned
that the squeaky wheel gets the
grease. Adisu Messala, head of
the United Ethiopian Organiza-
tions, noted that Yemenite im-
migrants had long accused Israeli
authorities of having sold many
of their children into adoption in
the early 1950s. But, he noted, it
wasn't until the "Uzi Meshulam
cult" began armed, violent actions
last year that the government ap-
pointed a commission of inquiry
to look into the charges.
While expressing regret over
injuries suffered by police and
Ethiopians, and distaste for the
Meshulam cult's tactics, Mr. Mes-
sala noted that immediately af-
ter Sunday's demonstration,
Prime Minister Shimon Peres an-
nounced that a commission of in-
quiry would examine the
Ethiopians' plight.
The issue that had driven the
Ethiopians to violence was blood.

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`I Can't Stand
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LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL CORRESPONDENT

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n the day after the
Ethiopian demonstration
in Jerusalem, Esther
Tadela, a 22-year-old
Ethiopian immigrant nurse, did
not go to work. "I didn't know
what I would say to people, the
hospital staff and the patients,
whether I would open my
mouth and start giving it to
them. I take care of sick Israelis,
and I just didn't want to take
care of them today.
Their children and their
grandchildren are likely to call
me 'kushi masriach' [stinking
].”
n
Ms. Tadela was visiting an
Ethiopian girlfriend in the mo-

bile home park in Tzrifin, near
Ben-Gurion Airport. These mo-
bile home parks are crime-rid-
den shanty towns for Israel's
poorest Jews, mainly Ethiopi-
an and Russian immigrants.
Scrap metal and garbage lie
everywhere, and mean dogs
bark at strangers. Of the 60,000
Ethiopians who've come to Is-
rael since 1984, some 1,700 fam-
ilies still haven't rented or
bought apartments, and con-
tinue to live in the mobile
homes, said Rabbi Micha Oden-
heimer, head of the Israel As-
sociation for Ethiopian Jews.
Ms. Tadela, who lives in

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