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[quote=Anonymous]People are in defensive mode so they are unable to "listen" and understand what is being said. So why don't we look at another country's current situation regarding claims of racism and systemic discrimination. Same tactics, same results. These are not lazy Americans.

In 1984, Israel carried out Operation Moses in which Ethiopian Jews were evacuated from famine-struck Sudan and airlifted to Israel. There are some 130,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel.

Headline in 2015: "Separate, but not equal treatment plagues Israel’s Ethiopian Jews"

"Some stark statistics: Although 89% of teenage boys (higher than the national average of 75%) and 62% of teenage girls of Ethiopian heritage serve in the IDF, one third of them end up in IDF prisons. Soldiers of Ethiopian descent currently make up only 3% of the IDF, but a disproportionate 13% of the military prison population."

"...disturbing figure: 40% of population of the Ofek Juvenile Prison are youth of Ethiopian heritage." [ethiopian Jews make up about 2% of the population].

"Racism in Israeli society has a history going back to the 1950s in which each immigrant group and the local Arab minority is seen as "outsiders" by a mostly European Jewish elite. Even in the last elections, Jews from Arab countries were called "neanderthals". Ethiopians, although portrayed as friendly loyal citizens in mass culture, are stereotyped as uneducated and primitive; expected to take on the lowest jobs and often shunned by elite schools or society."

DO YOU FINALLY GET IT??? [/quote]

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