But I believe that the Falashas would be happier back in Ethiopia....

When he refers to them as Ethiopians... They have failed miserably to integrate into Israeli society and they would be happier back in Ethiopia

for Israel, let's take care of them. The jewish people is one.

Outside of actually creating and enforcing insane "positive discrimination" quotas for schools, I don't think it is possible to force parents to put their kids into schools they don't want to. If Ethiopian parents want to send their kids to school with predominantly other Ethiopian kids, I think that is their choice. OK, there have been a few highly hyped and isolated cases of schools discriminating against certain sectors of the population, but in the big picture, this seems to be making a mountain out a molehill. On the other hand, about 12 years ago, one friday night when I was a barman at a bar on the kinneret, one drunk roudy Ethiopian's behaviour resulted in a riot by about 200 Ethiopians. They bombarded the bar with stones and sticks for about 2 hours, setting fire to the roof in 3 places, with about 100 kids barricaded inside the staff area. The siege ended when 50 or so fully equipped riot police arrived from all over the North of the country, bringing order. A good number of people were hospitalised with broken bones and serious head injuries. The media quietly hushed up the story to avoid the "RACE" issue. My point in bringing up this story, is that, yes, there are deep underlying issues affecting and within the Ethiopian community, which Israel in general ignores like an ostrich with it's head buried in the sand.

The same problems exist in other countries when school districts are allocated geographically. When my school district switched to bussing, despite the downside of having to ride a bus to school when I could have walked to a closer one, it was a good experience to get to know kids from different ethnic and socio-economic groups, and the first time that I had any interaction with them. And the interaction was positive. That would be the only way I can see to achieve integration here. And as someone who has had many Ethiopian neighbors, I agree with #3, they are a gift for Israel

ever heard of chilul hashem?!

they're part of this country. get used to this idea. they're contributive to this country and deserve to be treated well as anybody else.

they integrated well in this country but there are these who don't want them to be. same ones who think this country belongs solely to them. they actually scared cause they know things are to be changing not to their favor. good. it's about time to this to take place.

so don't bother. Either renounce your racism completely or embrace it and feel better.

I know that the default "racist" shtick and blather rises to the forefront whenever ethiopians and policy come together in a conversation. Of course thinking that BECAUSE they have a different skin color there WILL be racist behaviour is in itself a "racist" thing to say about WHITE people. and discriminitory. and untrue. Uh right I forgot only white people can be racists.

Sarah Get out from American Hollywood Ghetto an read books about the Jews from Ethiopi instead to throw some slogans

Could it be that these kids are all going to the school in their neighborhoods? Where I grew up we went to the school we were closest to, marked be district boundaries. The only exceptions were the poor catholic kids who had to bus all over the city to get to "private" schools.