(SF novel) East of Nakba (138)
Chapter 46 Inner enemy of Jewish state (2) Solomon
and Sheba (2/2)
In 1974, the Ethiopian Revolution was broken
out. The last emperor, Haile Selassie I, was dethroned and a military
government grabbed the power. The situation in the country was kept unstable
due to civil war. In 1990, Ethiopia was scattered into the piece by local
military powers. The people suffered from poverty. Particularly, the Jewish
descendants were thrown into extreme poverty.
It was the God willing to rescue the Jews in
Ethiopia for Israel. In May 1991, taking advantage of the turmoil in Ethiopia,
Israel sent many jumbo jets to the airport in Addis Ababa to transfer the refugees
from Ethiopia to Israel. Operation kept 36 hours. During that period, the
number of people who evacuated from Ethiopia reached fourteen thousand. It was
an unprecedented big operation to shuttle between Israel and Ethiopia using
many jumbo jets.
The African Jews in Israel increased to sixty
thousand nowadays.
(Continued)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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