Word: airlift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one side benefit of the airlift of the 10,000 Blacks is that the rug have been pulled out from under Arab racist resolutions against Israel in the United Nations. On January 9at Yenching Institute, Harvard. U.N Secretary General Javier Perez talked on "The U.N. Potential in Shaping Tomorrow's World. "I asked him when would the U.N. reverse All he could say was that he, personally, had never considered Israel racist...
...between 3,000 and 7,000 of them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Nimeiri, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudanese cooperation in the resettlement and ordered the airlift cut off. That left several thousand Falashas still in Sudan, many with relatives already in Israel...
...days the mood was jubilant. The Falashas had come, and on street corners and in coffee bars Israelis excitedly discussed the rescue operation that had airlifted thousands of starving Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in Sudan and brought them to the Promised Land. Declared one proud Israeli: "The rest of the world is talking about the famine in Ethiopia, and we are doing something about it. It makes me feel good." But two days after the covert seven-week mission, code-named Operation Moses, became public knowledge, it came to an abrupt halt. Just before a plane carrying some...
...flights were canceled after Israeli officials confirmed newspaper reports / that a rescue mission was under way. Infuriated that premature publicity had compromised the airlift, the left-wing Citizens' Rights Movement and the right-wing Tehiya Party introduced no-confidence motions against the government in the Knesset. But Prime Minister Shimon Peres persuaded the parties to drop the motions by arguing that they would only bring more attention to the Falashas. "We Israelis manage to take a wonderful thing like this operation and create controversy all around it," said one Israeli immigration official in Jerusalem...
...Khartoum, the Sudanese government denied any role in the airlift. Foreign Minister Hashem Osman called in Arab, African and Asian diplomats to charge that Ethiopia had been "closing its eyes" to the Falasha exodus in return for weapons and money from Israel. Ethiopia's Foreign Minister Goshu Wolde countered with the accusation that Sudan had been bribing "a large number of Ethiopian Jews to flee Ethiopia...