Slave Trade in Tens of Thousands of Ethiopians
Branded as “ Falasha” “Black Jews” Smuggled out of Ethiopia was the Direct Rape
of Our Dignity Recorded in History
Getachew Reda (Editor Ethiopian Semay)
Today this morning, I just visited Ze-Habesha website a topic caught my
attention with the headline reading
“How
a village left behind by Jews in Ethiopia became a top tourist draw”. I said what? “a village left behind by Jews in Ethiopia!”And I
asked, what happened? Became a top Tourist attraction! I said “Okay!” and read the
article. It was nasty and irritating.
Many of you have been hoodwinked believing
that there is Black Jew or called Felasha race immigrated to Ethiopia before
2500 years from a country called Israel. You have to laugh at this foolish
theory created by some religious schmuck historians
who worshiped the superiority of white skin/Israel above Ethiopian race.
If there were black population lived in Israel some
2500 years ago, there never was a trace of any black Jew remained in the land
of Israel until these slave trade of the Felasha came to exist in 1991.If true,
these Felasha ancestors could have made Millions of Black skin Jew population
–looking just like them “like
Ethiopians’ future!!!”
Let me repeat this again! To make the story
laughable, let alone Millions of black Felasha population be seen as inhabitants
of Israel occupied a specific place or a space just like the other “white’ skin
inhabitants of Israel, there never was a trace of a single family or even
individual Felasha lived in Israel as the descendants of the so called Felasha
breed of the “2500” years ago.
If so, how this fabrication of lies came to be
believed as real? As I have told you all in my interview of August 2014 posted
on my weblog or on you-tube hosted by Assimba Pal Talk. It is been the work of Noe-colonialist subversion campaign which went on for thousands of years to
hoodwink the Oritawiyan/ Old Testament religion believers/Felasha with the
collaboration through a native proxy/Banda “religious authorities” or “Religious
subversion” The Israelis did not want a gigantic military aggression to get
these segment of Ethiopian society to make believe they are Israelite Jew. The
religious authority in Axum during the Saba kingdom already gave their
permission of to sell the citizenship of these segments linking their mercenary
theory with Queen Sheba as Felasha of Israel.
It was made written as true
story. From there the people felt it was true. The people think to be Israelite
was super human being than to be called Ethiopians or any other citizenship.
Jesus was born in Israel and therefore they think they too will have special
status in the world (but now to their shame,
we know they are mistreated as slaves).
Such subversion/destabilization was also developed by some ignorant
racists who thought these tribes were immigrants from Israel not of Ethiopian
Origin. Even the arts, the potteries were tugged as Isralite/Felasha arts not of
the Ethiopian arts. Check the following photo how they still believe these work
of art are not Ethiopians ‘but Israelites (Felasha art). Have you see any none
Ethiopian arts in this photo that looks foreigners or Israelite arts? The
subversion of the native banda/ Telalakiwoch/ mercenaries are still working
hard to introduce our arts as foreign/Israeli’s arts. I got this photo
posted on Ze-Habesha website obtained from “THE TIMES OF ISRAEL”
“Surprisingly
such theory that this population was Israelite, not Ethiopians of Africa
origin. This subversion propaganda was accepted by the Felasha themselves (read
my email with a Felasha lady posted few years back- there you will see how they
believe they came from Israel 2500 years ago not originated from
Africa/Ethiopia).Can anyone in his/her normal mind tug these mothers as Israelite or even have the future and skin color of Israelite? What happened to our educated sectors to let
such invasion go freely unchallenged ?
As I mentioned this in several occasions, Ethiopia
had and still has many enemies for variety reasons of their own agenda. In
order to destroy or kneel down Ethiopia, the enemies tried many ways. One was
direct declaration of war (occurred many times). All open aggression failed to
control Ethiopia since the Axumite era (undeniably of the wars of-course were
devastating), Ethiopia managed to survive.
The enemies started another new system to destroy
Ethiopia and kneel down its peoples’ dignity. Ethiopian dignity which of course
was difficult for the intruders to capture easily than the open war itself (the
Ethiopian dignity was the hardest quality to be easily subdue by the enemies).
To do that, they came out with the following steps.
Demorilization
Destabilization
Crisis
Neutralization
Each of them has different stages to pass through.
I am not going through detail, since I have elaborated in detail during my
interview posted on Ethiopian Semay blog (Ggetachew Reda August Interview).
Though to made believe the Felasha were Israelite not Ethiopians of Africans
went through the four process of subversion, the second step which is
“Destabilization” was the process the subversers focused to manipulate the mind
of these ethnic group. It was the thinking; it was the religious ideology that
the subverser used as a tactic to persuade the mind of these elements to reach
where they are now. After the change of power took place in Ethiopia, the
subverser took advantage of the 1991 “crisis” and the Imperialists power
(Israei Mosad/US/CIA)moved in with a large cargo plane and took the Felasha to Israel with permission and collaboration of the new mercenaries /native banda
namely TPLF.
From 1977 on words new modern slave trade
flourished in Africa. Many Africans including Ethiopians started to be
recruited as a maid to Arabs and also Felashas traded for money and transferred
to Israel as Israelite native citizens.
Here is how the situation is eloquently explained
by the late Professor Aleme Eshete;
“However with Sudan of Nimeiry
(1969-1985) and Ethiopia (1991-2001) as American proxy-colonies, “main stream”
media feeds the so called “international community” with disinformation
regarding the slave trade in tens of thousands of Ethiopians branded “Falasha”
“black Jews”, whatever their religion and provenance smuggled out of Ethiopia
through the Sudan to Israel, and from 1991 to this day directly from Ethiopia
to Israel. The definition of Falasha has gradually been expanding to cover more
and more all Ethiopian Amharic speakers, mainly Orthodox Christians, living in
the Ethiopian highlands, who constitute the majority of the 60 million
Ethiopians. The slave trade in Ethiopian so called “Falasha” has therefore
intensified at an alarming rate. The total so far exported to Israel under
American Congress and Presidential orders and pressure, and through the
supervision of the CIA-Mossad and international Zionism, is approaching
100,000. As the Intifada intensifies, as Israel needs more and more settlers in
the West Bank and Gaza, more and more fodder, the slave trade in Ethiopians
will redouble its rhythm and there will be no point crying when the slave trade
reaches the millions depopulating further, and eradicating the ancient peoples
of Ethiopia.
It is
high time to stop the ignominious slave trade! If before the 1948 creation of
Israel in Palestine, Ethiopia was considered by imperialism (mainly British) as
one of the possible settlement sites to serve accommodate persecuted Jews in
Europe, survivors of the Nazi holocaust, now it seems the reverse is coming
true: Israel is becoming home to Ethiopian slaves who are brought to settle in
the West Bank and Gaza, war zone “settlements” in Palestine, occupied by the
Israeli army.”
Who are the Falasha.? That the Falasha are Agaw Ethiopians
in bones and blood is accepted by all scholars. “…sulla loro origine
etnica agaw non puo cader dubbio” writes perhaps the gretest Italian
Ethiopicist Carlo Conti Rossini. (“Appunti di Storia e letteratura
Falascia.”). “Seraient-ils donc d’autre race que leur compatriotes
chretiens? Loin de là! Ni par le physique, ni par le costume, ils ne se
distinguent de la masse des autochtones , detail qui…dement toute hypothèse qui
leur preterait une origine juive. “ wrote Jean Doresse (La Vie quotidienne des
Ethiopiens au XVII et XVIII siècles .) Finally Professor
Ullendorf of the School of Oriental Studiis (London” concludes: “A dispassionate
appraisal of the ethnic and religious position of the Falashas places them
squarely in the main-stream of Ethiopian life.”.( E.Ullendorf,
“Ethiopia and the Bible” –London, 1968; R.Pankhurst,:The Falashas in
their Christian Ethiopian setting” – in African Affairs, 1992 –91))
The Falasha are an integral part
of ancient Ethiopia belonging historically to the Agaw tribe. Ethiopian Falasha Agaw are referred to, in the context
of Ethiopian Christianity, as “Oritawi”, that is believers in the
Old Testament, the monumental book of the Jews written in Hebrew, the
basis of ancient Judaism, succeeded by Christianity and the New Testament.
The ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church, perhaps more than other
Christian Churches, consider the Old Testament and the New Testament.
complementary and not contradictory. The Ethiopian Old Testament is written in
the ancient Ethiopian language Ge’ez - the only literature the Falasha
are acquainted with. The Kushitic Agaw inhabited since very ancient per-Christian times the entire central part of Ethiopia between the Beja of
northern Eritrea and the Abbai or Blue Nile. The Falasha – now largely Amharic
speaking since the Gondarine period (17th century)) - are descendants of the
ancient Agaw who have nothing at all to do with Israel, but whom the Zionists
call “Black Jews” - entitled to the so called “law of return” “to the promised
land”. Ask them how, when and where and by what other “miracle”- they have no
answer but lies. Given that to-day the technology exists, how about an
anthropometric measurement or examination of DNA , to show the world if the
Falasha indeed belong to the Jewish race, that they are descendants of Abraham
and Moses. Why bother, when , in proxy-colonies, with a superpower backing,
accountability is superfluous.
One may suggest instead that Israel
needs the “Falasha because it needs more settlers for the “Jewish” settlements
in the West Bank and Gaza territories conquered and occupied since the 1967
war, creating millions of Palestinian refugees (added to those created in 1948
following the creation of Israel), living ever since in neighboring refugee
camps Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, etc. as well as in refugee camps in
Palestine itself, refused by Israel the right to return to their homes. Israel
may also need the Falasha as cheap manual labor , and perhaps also fodder
troops to face the unending Palestinian Intifada and Arab
wars. (see last paragraph). That is also why the Falasha issue may be
considered, in a way, as a function of the Israeli-Palestinian war and the
thorny Israeli “settlement” and Palestinian refugee issue, increasing and
decreasing with war and peace..
However that may be, in the meantime.
while admitting that Ethiopian ministers and ambassadors included also the
Falasha (:U.S.A.
Today May 16, 2000), a propaganda campaign of Falasha
persecution in Ethiopia had been fabricated to the address of American Zionists
who had consumed it without questioning. I had attended in Tel Aviv, by
surprise, one such Falasha propaganda session where the Ethiopian speaker, one
of those CIA-Mossad recruited Mafiosi “Falasha” smuggling ring leader, who had
taken up an Israeli name, was addressing American Zionists to whom he was
telling the most outrageous lies. That is why in reality, the Falasha smuggling
out of Ethiopia, as we have said before, represented a proper slave trade, by
other names.
Emperor Haile Selassie had
systematically and consistently refused to let any Falasha out of Ethiopia
inviting the Zionists to come to Ethiopia and help the Falsahas as well as the
rest of the Ethiopians out of under development, through educational and health
programs; through the development of water and electricity supply; through the
development of roads, home-based artisanal industries etc.. That is how ORT
started its program in Ethiopia. That is also how the program of Falasha
smuggling started only after the fall and death of Haile Selassie in 1974, when
Ethiopia began to lose her sovereignty as a Soviet-American proxy colony.
Starting on a small scale, between 1977-1982, the smuggling operation of the
Falashas reached a massive scale in 1983-85. Steven Kaplan had estimated in
1999 that a total of 55,000 “Falashas” have been smuggled out since
1977, mostly through the Sudan- However the figure has shot up since then.
There were said to be until May 2000 an estimated 74000 “Falasha” in
Israel.(U.S.A.
today, May16,2000) To that should be added the 14% who
are said to have died during the long trek to the Sudan.(Ahmed Karadawi, “The
Smuggling of the Ethiopian Falasha to Israel through Sudan” in African
Affairs (1991), 90: Ahmed Karadawi has been Assistant Commissioner for
Refugees in Khartoum, Sudan, and had completed a Ph.D. thesis at Oxford on
“Refugee Policy in the Sudan 1967-1984).
Among
the 74,000 “Falasha”, even Israelis now admit more and more to find Christians
with the cross on their forehead (as I have myself observed when I was in
Israel in the 1980’s.) and even Muslims!. That is why figures regarding the
number of Falasha in Ethiopia are as Karadawi said “notoriously inconsistent”, because the
identification of “Jewishness” is notoriously arbitrary!
May God of Ethiopia rest your soul
in heaven my dearest teacher Dr.Aleme Eshete.
How long are Ethiopins to allow
their dignity to be raped by neocolonialists and their collaborator/
native bandas? Will you the Felasha
wakeup and asserted your dignity of Ethiopiawinet and Africawinet than calling yourself
natives Jewish? Religion is another
thing; race is another matter. Free yourself from the self chained atmosphere and
declare your Africaness and Ethiopiawintet. It is shocking to see, sick and
disable elderly Ethiopian mothers and fathers shoved in to a cargo plane and
shipped to Israel. It is the most sorrow and despicable act ever heard in
African history.
You have been hoodwinked by some
schmuck native mercenaries and foreign powers for so long to suffer into this
despicable Identify Crisis. After you saw all the discrimination you are
experiencing in supposed to be your ancestor’s country Israel (what a shame!)It
is time to think back what went wrong and who subverted you to this betrayal.
Note:- if anyone wants to quote or use this document that I presented- please
use “Editor Ethiopian Semay” as your reference to show your reference source to
assure its accuracy.
Ethiopia will prevail!
Getcahew
Reda (Editor- Ethiopian Semay) getachre@aol.com
