Posted on 11/05/2011 9:34:30 AM PDT by Love for Israel
Ministry of Welfare Destroys Ethiopian Homes
by R. D. Weisskopf, founder of the UnPromised Land channel
Despite the widespread outcry against the Ministry of Welfare, senior management refused this week to fight corruption which has been deeply-entrenched in the Ministry of Welfare for over 30 years. One of the communities that has suffered most at the hands of the Ministry of Welfare are Ethiopian immigrants. According to the Jewish Agency, Ethiopians are less than 3% of Israel’s immigrant population while Ethiopian children represent 50% of the immigrant population under the Ministry of Welfare’s control.
One of the many testimonies linked to the UnPromisedLand channel is the story of a divorced Ethiopian mother whose children were taken from her when she went to the corner shop and left them unattended at her home. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXqky5N4BI&feature=related ). This is a classic example of the Ministry of Welfare’s “divide and conquer” strategy.
Firstly, court-appointed social workers pushed the Ethiopian father of this family out of the picture from the beginning of the divorce. If they were to allow him access to his children, it would have only been under the “supervision” of an 18 year-old girl working as a volunteer in a supervised visitation center. This first step rapes the patriarchal Ethiopian culture – as evidenced by the suicide rate among Ethiopian fathers which is 7 times higher than anyone else.
Once these social workers had this mother and children under their control – they took away three of the children to the dismay of Knesset Member Shlomo Mollah. Nobody even considered reuniting the children with their biological father when the social workers placed them with strangers for over 4 years. Instead of trying to defuse this family’s crisis – court-appointed social workers actually amplified devastation in each of their decisions. Multiply this family’s story by over 84,000 Ethiopian immigrants and that is a very serious social disaster which the Ministry of Welfare refuses to address.
My experience fundraising among American Zionists is the percentage of income which Black Americans donate to Israel is twice the percentage which White Americans donate to Israel. Black Americans like Pastor Glenn Plummer are four times more active in helping the Jewish community than White Americans. If channel 1 would have broadcast this story in the American media, the outrage among the 60 million Black Americans would have been entirely justifiable.
Not only does this violate the mutual trust and respect between Black Americans and the Jewish community, it violates international human rights treaties which Israel signed; and the American civil rights codes. Every tax-deductible dollar raised in the USA and spent in Israel must comply with American civil rights codes.
A manger speaking for the Ministry of Welfare claims Ethiopians come with “many problems” to Israel. What this manager calls “many problems”, anthropologists call a “rich heritage” which Ethiopians trace back to King Solomon and even Moses. Civil rights codes and international treaties define this manager's claim as “intolerance and racism”. Both American non-profits and their Israeli partners who receive donated funds could find themselves in deep trouble if any American donor were to prove their donations were being used to violate the civil and human rights of Ethiopians in Israel.
Sounds remarkably like the theory that American Indian kids had to be taught how to be white people at distant boarding schools.
No way this passes the smell test.
Two words: Hagit Yaso. She captured the nation’s heart this year.
One doesn’t expect a people who lived for generations in a subsistence economy to adapt to the modern world overnight.
Yet with the Beta Israel, the progress has been impressive.
They’ve come of age in Israel.
Welfare is just a passive form of warfare aimed at destroying individualism.
Excellent analogy. That’s exactly what they do.
There’s an important exception in Israel. Here they are absolutely above the law. They cannot be investigated nor do they need to obey court orders at all. I don’t know of any other country where the social workers can openly be criminals and dictators.
That’s exactly why we need to raise public awareness.
That and “Multiply this family’s story by over 84,000 Ethiopian immigrants ....” when apparently each Ethiopian is big, certainly by today’s standards. So how many FAMILIES are there to compare this story to?
I’m not big on CPS in the US, and imagine it’s not much better in Israel, but this story could have been better and less emotionally written.
She’s a babe. Beta Israel came of age centuries ago. It’s militant feminism that is raping the Ethiopian culture. Those of us who have lived among Ethiopians discovered very quickly that they had far more to teach us than we had to teach them. It is only militant feminists who arrogantly think they have all the answers to all the social problems.
That was imbred into American society. Israeli society is supposed to behave like a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Jews are supposed to be simpathetic to other minorities - not oppress them.
Excellent point and unfortunately is true more often than not.
I think that mindset has crept in everywhere.
Please feel free to write something better. I will be happy to publish it.
Perhaps - but we the people should then demand accountability from those who impose their power over us.
The author’s blatant playing of the race card is disturbing. It greatly lessens the article’s credibility.
“The author’s blatant playing of the race card is disturbing. It greatly lessens the article’s credibility.”
Except that this will in making the leftist complain more about the Jews.
So does the blame lie with the author or militant femilism which has crept into power and openly rapes patriarchal cultures like the Ethiopians?
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