TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY AND FIGHT FOR IT!!

GOOD LUCK.

God bless you.

In 1973, when I left Israel for the United States, racism was a major factor.

Mula has a leviathan task to tackle, among them denouncing and eliminating the forbidding prejudices in the Israeli society.

I wish him great success.

Daniel Gizaw, former resident of Israel

Granted you walked 800 kilometers from Ethiopia to Sudan, how many kilometers did you walk to reach the Knesset, 800 miles, 900 miles, or more? Or did some one airlift you from where you live now to the Knesset?

You are now two Ethiopian Jews at the Knesset, and thousands of Ethiopian Jews are expecting something tangible from you. Of course, once you are in power, it is easy to forget your humble beginnings and the humble beginnings of the others. St. Paul of the Hebrew tribes, advices his audience this way: “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others” (Philippians 2:4). I’m sure your Ethiopian Jews are proud of you that you have crossed the Red Sea – the Ethiopian ghettos – and have reached the Promised Land – the Knesset. As hard as it has been for you to reach to this high status, imagine how harder it would be for you to meet the needs of those Ethiopian Jews still trapped at the Ethiopian ghettos. Two of you are now like Moses and Aaron, the two biblical brothers; you are the voices of the voiceless of your Ethiopian Jews. As Moses and Aaron led that oppressed nation of ancient Israel out of the Egyptian bondage, you two Ethiopian Jews at the Knesset have the greatest responsibilities to lead the old and the young, the sick and the healthy, the rich and the poor Ethiopian Jews and help them cross the Sinai desert – racism – safely without making too much battles against the Amorite kings – the White Israelite Jews.

Yes, the old Israelites lived in that burning desert for about 40 years, murmuring, grumbling, crying, and even threatening Moses, their beloved leader, to stone him or to go back to Egypt unless Moses provided them water to drink and meat to eat. In the same way, your Ethiopian Jews who have been living with the racist Israelite White Jews for such a long time, and who have been suffering from humiliation, intimidation, and segregation, one day will rise up and demand that you give them adequate shelter, good education for their children, high paying jobs for their collage graduates, health insurance for every Ethiopian Jews, and retirement benefits for the elderly. If not, they will bring you down from the Knesset and ask you to pay their transportation to go back, not to Egypt, but to Ethiopia. What will you do then? What did Moses do when the whole nation of Israel gathered and grumbled against him unless he gave them water? They continued to ask: “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?” (Exodus 17:3)

If you really are as humble as Moses and as close to God as he was, the God of Israel who issued fresh water out of a dry rock and quenched his people’s thirst of water would be able to help you meet the needs of your Ethiopian Jews. The needs of the old Israelites at that particular time when they were at Rephidim was water, and Moses gave them the water. Are you ready to help the Ethiopian Jews who are going to ask you not just for clean water but for equal treatment by the racist Israeli White Jews?

For sure, the Ethiopian Jews may never join the Israeli societies as far as the Ethiopian Jewish children are not accepted by the Israeli educational system. In this case, the Ethiopian Jewish children should stick together, should not be influenced by the African-American culture they always watch on the television. They should never forget their Ethiopian identities, cultures, customs and traditions. African Americans don’t have their own cultures; they lost it during the slavery. You two Ethiopian Jewish parliamentarians should open Amharic schools, Tigrigna schools, or Oromo schools and teach every Ethiopian Jewish child every thing about Ethiopia, and I’m sure every Ethiopian will support you for this great mission. It is sad to hear though that as many as 20, 000 Ethiopian Jewish teenager children have dropped out of school without any further plans. To convince these dropped out Ethiopian Jewish children to go back to school, you have to propose a plan as a member of the Knesset. At this early age, these young Ethiopian Jewish children should not be on the street, perhaps, throwing stones, like the Palestinian kids, at the Israeli White Jews’ children who offend them by using the word “tikur.”

Though you are at the Knesset, it does not mean you will get what you ask for your community; therefore don’t admire the beauty of democracy in Israel until racism is completely whipped out from the land of Israel and until an Ethiopian Jews becomes the Prime Minister of Israel. Just wait; it will happen. Remember, the old Israelis never thought they would cross the Red Sea on a dry land, never thought they would drink water out of a dry rock, and never thought they would eat manna from heaven for 40 years, so “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God” (Mark 10:27).