عاجل لأعضاء المنبر بخصوص مذكرات اللواء عمر محمد الطيب عن ترحيل الفلاشا ..

Quote: و فقرة تستحق القراءة: One of President Numeiry's trickiest political problems has been the arrival among the refugees of Ethiopian Jews, called Falashas (the Amharic word for strangers). The remnants of an ancient tribe that has kept alive Jewish religious practices, these Ethiopians became the object of a secret evacuation by Israel, code-named Operation Moses. According to various estimates, between 3,000 and 7,000 of them reached Israel before word of the rescue operation leaked out. Numeiry, whose government is a member of the Arab League and has no diplomatic relations with Israel, was embarrassed by the spotlight on Sudan co-operation in the re-settlement and ordered the airlift cut off. That left several thousand Falashas still in Sudan, many with relatives in Israel. Numeiry quickly came under intense pressure from Western governments to find a way to help the Falashas on humanitarian grounds. In February 1985 a senior Sudanese official got in touch with the refugee commission in Geneva to discuss its possible role in evacuating the Falashas. One major setback to the program is the fact that the Falasha refugees in Sudan have blended into the anonymity of the camps and are sharing in the tragic fate of its occupants. Once regarded as the potential bread basket of the Arab world, Sudan has in four years gone from being an exporter to an importer of its sorghum, a grain like staple crop. Through a combination of bad weather and overgrazing of arable land production fell from 3.4 million tons in 1981 to 1.3 million tons in 1984. The result has been bread shortages throughout the country, even in the capital of Khartoum. المصدرhttp://www.sudan.net/government/history.html[/QUOTE] و لمزيد من متعة القراءة و التحليل: Quote: 'We did the real work' Members of the Komita (committee for Ethiopian Jews) - a group of leader-volunteers selected by the Mossad - operated for eight years. They were responsible for locating Jews among the hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled their villages; they distributed food, money and medicine and managed daily life at the camps. [B]"Our work in Sudan stemmed from our absolute faith in the State of Israel and in the Mossad. We had no telephones; we did not undergo training and we risked our lives on a daily basis," recounts Rada. "We had no other choice. We believed in the path wholeheartedly and we agreed to do what we did. In retrospect," he adds, "today we would not have dared do what we did then as young men." The operatives, who liaised between the Mossad and the Jews in the Arab-speaking Sudanese communities, operated in absolute secrecy. In the years that preceded Operation Moses, they led the assigned groups for aliyah from their place of residence to Khartoum in the dark of night, often with a warning of a just a few hours. On this difficult route money and food was given to them and distributed among the families to help them survive. In order to maintain a shroud of secrecy they were forced to pose as Muslims, ignoring the pain and humiliation involved in sacrilege of the Sabbath and in eating non-kosher food. If they were caught, they were severely tortured. "Mossad agents told us to keep silent and die, as long as we do not divulge what we knew. And that's what we did," says Rada. "We were sent to an enemy country, left waiting for several years, and in the dark of night we buried members of the community everyday. How could it be that all this is not recorded in the pages of our history?" Rada says angrily. "The young members of the community should be given something to be proud of. It's our heritage, and we shall not permit the Mossad to mess with the history of Ethiopian Jews. We believed that assurances made to us would indeed be kept, and now we feel they were written on ice." Colleagues in the struggle, Adnefa Zaudi, Avraham Damalayu, Meir Ingdasht, Jonathan Hadrai and Oded Mitiboner nod in consent. Each has an impossible life story of activity under constant threat in an enemy country, some have been recognized as prisoners of Zion, and none of them are willing to remain silent. "We want recognition of our activities," announces Zaudi. "We were the ones who carried out the real work at the Sudanese camps; we brought our brothers to Israel." و لعشاق الصور هذه صورتهم .. From right to left: Rada, Zaudi, Damalayu, Ingdasht, Hadrai and Mitiboner المصدر http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3445221,00.html (عدل بواسطة اسعد الريفى on 12-27-2007, 07:32 AM)