Weakness brings with it strength, hope, and finally victory, and victory brings confidence, prosperity, and happiness.

When the Israelis were in Egypt for four hundred years, they were weak, hopeless, and slaves of the Egyptian masters. They had never thought that one day the Almighty God would give them a strong leader that would lead them out of Egypt to the desert land – Sinai, and from Sinai to the promised land of Canaan.

At present, some of their children, the one hundred and ten thousand Ethiopian black Jews, have been without effective leaders while staying in Israel, isolated from the so called European white Jews. While in Egypt, their ancestors were isolated from the pagan Egyptians, which is not strange for a Jew to be separated from the pagan world. What is so strange, so bizarre, and so peculiar for the normal person to understand and to comprehend is to see that the Ethiopian black Jews are isolated and separated from the other European white Jews.

When they left Ethiopia and settled in Israel, the Ethiopian black Jews never thought the European white Jews would isolate them because of their colors. Since then they have been living in isolation from the rest of the European white Jewish community without an effective leader. As a result of this isolation, they have prayed to God to give them a leader able to break the barrier between the Ethiopian black Jews and the European white Jews – a good leader like Moses who separated the Red Sea apart and let that desperate and faithless nation of ancient Israel cross the deep sea safely.

Indeed God listens to the prayers of the righteous person, and that is why he gave to these isolated, segregated, despised, and neglected Ethiopian black Jews three dynamic leaders from their own communities to lead them, uplift their broken spirits, and have confidence in them selves because they have a history to tell the world that they are free people from a free nation, and let the European white Jews know this remarkable history of the Ethiopian black Jews.

The three leaders God lifted up from a despised and overlooked Ethiopian black Jewish community and sent to the Member of the Knesset to carry out the multifarious duties of the Ethiopian black Jews in Israel are Adisu Messele, Shlomo Mula, and Rabbi Mazor Bayana. The last two of the three are brand new to the MK, and God, who weighed the sufferings of his people – the Ethiopian black Jews – is going to raise more effective leaders like the old three – Moses, Aaron, and Mariam.

These three Ethiopian black Jewish leaders, however, may have different approaches to the solving of the problems their communities are facing. Even though whatever differences they may have in their approaches to the problems of their communities, one thing is clear that they all agree the European white Jews hate the Ethiopian black Jews for what ever reason; the Ethiopian black Jews are discriminated by the European white Jews and disqualified for any job they are qualified to. That is why over 17,000 well qualified college graduate young Ethiopian black Jews could not find any descent and stable jobs except menial jobs such as dishwashing, housekeeping, and stationing as a security guard at some one’s hotel, motel, and prisons. Most of them cannot get government position because they have been purposely disqualified for failing the test prepared and designed for someone else but forced to take it in order to get a high paying job.

The inequality between the Ethiopian black Jews and the White European Jews will continue until these three Ethiopian black Jewish leaders change it through their hard work for their communities. They must work hard to reform the Civil Service Testing System; they must work hard to assign all college graduate Ethiopian black Jews to a good job in their areas; they must work hard to reduce the poverty level among the Ethiopian black Jews from 75% to 1% within few years; they must work hard that the Ethiopian black Jews must not change their Ethiopian sacred names in order to be qualified as a real Jew; they must work hard that alia should not be closed until the last Jew in Ethiopia has left his native land and joined with the rest of the Ethiopian black Jews in Israel; they must work hard that the Ethiopian black Jewish children should learn both Amharic and Hebrew; and finally they must work hard that the Jewishness of the Ethiopian black Jews is pure, original, and superior to the European white Jewishness.

These three leaders of the Ethiopian Jewish community have great responsibilities in bringing the other Ethiopian black Jews to the land of Israel, but in my opinion, they must take care of the ones who are already there in Israel before they attempt to take the rest of the Ethiopian black Jews from Ethiopia. Why someone could add a misery to another misery before he/she avoids the first misery. It is far better for the Ethiopian black Jews to stay in Ethiopia until the race problem in hiring and firing Ethiopian black Jews is over and until all Ethiopian black Jews in Israel are considered humans like the other European white Jews in the land of the Jews.

So let the remaining Ethiopian black Jews stay in Ethiopia for a while, and let Rabbi Mazor Bayana be patient and should not, at this time, insist the MK to bring all the Ethiopian black Jews to Israel; he should first remember the saying in Amharic: “yabai wonz lerasu maderia yellew giend yizo yizoral.” Therefore, Rabbi Bayana must recognize the big problem his people are facing in Israel before he tries to bring the other Ethiopian black Jews to the land of Israel and exacerbate the existing Ethiopian black Jewish problem in Israel. By the way Rabbi Bayana is welcomed to visit Ethiopia and meet with his Ethiopian black Jews and learn their ways of life in Ethiopia and decide for him self either to take them or leave them where they are.

Any way, Yahweh will give to the three of you the wisdom to speak to your people, to encourage them, to give them hope, to teach them that they are the children of God, and to tell them that they have come from a proud and beautiful country. You must tell them that they have three homes: one in Ethiopia, one in Jerusalem, and one in heaven, and have them always read the book of your prophet Zechariah, Chapter 8; this is a chapter of hope for all the Jews, and especially for the Ethiopian black Jews.