Israeli Absorption of Falasha Jews and Restoring Nile-to-Euphrates Strategy

 The Israeli regime seeks taking advantage of this issue for its own. On the other hand, the Israelis are still following a plan to pave the way for the Ethiopian Jewry or Falashas to migrate to the Israeli regime to grant them Israeli citizenship and settle them in the occupied territories.
 
Meanwhile, recently 63 Ethiopians have arrived in the Israeli regime as part of a 1,300-member group of Ethiopian Jews. According to the plans, within a 5-year period 9,000 Ethiopian Jewry are scheduled to move from home country to the Israeli regime. The interesting thing about immigration of the Ethiopian Jewry is that they have failed to meet the Israeli immigration terms but they were accepted as Jews in their new home. According to the Director of Public Affairs and Communications of the Jewish Agency for Israel Yigal Palmor, the 63 Ethiopians who arrived in the Israeli regime lacked the qualifications under Law on Return that allows the Jews reside in the Israeli regime. Palmor continued that members of their families, however, were in the Israeli regime, something giving the government the justification to grant the new members Israeli citizenship. So, it can be noted that this 63-member group is not the first Ethiopian group that is not recognized as Jewish but is allowed in the occupied Palestinian territories to move on as part of process to receive Israeli citizenship.
 
The issue of admission of Falasha Jews comes while according to a poll conducted by the Israeli ministry of immigrant absorption, 50 percent of the Israeli community believes that waves of immigration to the Israeli regime are damaging to their country, pushing up the crimes rates there. The poll results suggest that 62 percent of the participants in the survey believed that new immigrants have caused a rise in such acts as alcohol drinks consumption between the young Israeli generations. Furthermore, 33 percent of them said the new immigrants added to older ones' employment and housing problems.
 
The change in the Israeli view on immigrant admission and eliminating the limits in this way are coming while Ethiopia, too, has sped up building of its controversial dam the project of which was launched in 2011. The negative effects of the project have caused some tensions between the two. However, the dam construction project is supported by the Israeli regime because by this project Tel Aviv can put pressures on one of its potential adversaries.
 
Despite Tel Aviv’s attention to such African countries as Ethiopia, it should be taken into consideration that the Israeli social structures are not ready to accommodate new Ethiopian Jews. But the Israeli regime goes to great lengths to use all of its available instruments and potentials in Ethiopia to add to its territory and so realize its Nile-to-Euphrates expansion. The Ethiopian immigrants can later be key pro-Israeli agents in their home country and take significant political posts. This, in turn, secures Israeli interests in an African country that so far sent over 135,000 immigrants to the occupied Palestinian territories.