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ISRAELIS page 56
nearby Ramie with her parents,
went to the demonstration, al-
though she says she didn't get
violent. On the taxi van home
from Jerusalem, she says peo-
ple edged away from her. "You
could see they were afraid.
When I got in they started whis-
pering among themselves. They
didn't say anything to me.
Sometimes silence says the
most."
This is not the first time she
has had an unwelcome recep-
tion on public transportation.
"Many, many times I get on a
bus and a kid calls me lushi
masriach.' Adults never say
anything. But when I ask the
kids where they got that name,
they tell me they heard it from
their parents. Where else?"
Ms. Tadela came here from
Addis Ababa in 1985. In her
view, Israel has given the
Ethiopians the short end of the
stick from the beginning. "They
sent us to live in some hole and
said, 'Go study.' They think
we're stupid, but I saw how the
Ethiopians did in nursing school
and how the Israelis did, and
we were much smarter."
A thin, attractive woman,
Ms. Tadela wrinkles her brow
in anger as she speaks. She
asks, "How do you think we feel
when we send our brothers to
fight for the country, and then
we find out that they've killed
themselves?"
But the revelation about the
blood donations was the worst.
"Of course the policy was be-
cause of racism. They threw
Ethiopian blood into the
garbage. What is this, a second
Germany?"
Since the blood scandal came
out, she says, "I feel like a dif-
ferent person. I used to take all
the patronization and every-
thing quietly. Not anymore.
Now I just can't stand Israelis,
I hate them. That's the way I
feel, and that's the way I'm go-
ing to act."
Asked what she wants the
government commission of in-
quiry to do, Tadela replied that
there must be a change in poli-
cy — Ethiopian blood must no
longer be automatically dis-
carded, but tested like everyone
else's. Beyond that, she said,
Health Minister Ephraim Sneh
and Magen David Adom blood
bank director Dr. Amnon Ben-
David "have got to go."
Asked if she thought future
Ethiopian demonstrations
would be as violent as the one
in Jerusalem, Ms. Tadela
replied, "That wasn't violent.
That was nothing. If we don't
have our demands satisfied,
then you will see violence." ❑
The Political Alliance:
Peas In A Peculiar Pod
JAMES D. BESSER WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
T
here was good news and
bad news in Nation of Is-
lam Minister Louis Far-
rakhan's adventures in
Libya, where he teamed up with
Moammar Qadhaffi to forge a po-
litical alliance reportedly aimed
at influencing American foreign
policy.
The good news is that Mr. Far-
rakhan's effort to enter the main-
stream, which pundits presumed
to be the goal of his Million Man
March in October, was revealed
as a sham by the comic-opera
summit in Libya.
The bad news is that Mr. Far-
rakhan may not care. With an
alienated, angry constituency
that has every reason to believe
that the nation's political leader-
ship has abandoned them, Mr.
Farrakhan's extremism, loony as
it seems from a middle class per-
spective, may have a certain res-
onance in the nation's anarchic
cities.
Mr. Farrakhan's cozy rela-
tionship with the erratic Libyan
strongman tells us much about a
man who actively shuns the
mainstream; "legitimization" is
the least of the Jewish commu-
nity's worries as this curious
character pursues goals that we
only dimly understand.
Last fall's march in Washing-
ton was threatening to Jewish
leaders because its success — the
nonviolence of its participants,
the powerful messages conveyed
by many on the podium —
seemed to suggest a new and
broader role for Mr. Farrakhan,
who conceived and planned the
event.
The Nation of Islam leader,
who has frequently been accused
of anti-Semitism, was filling a
leadership vacuum .in .a black