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Subject: Re: "Sabotage of Humanitarian Efforts by Political Opportunists"
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My first answer to David Rubin was off the mark. It should have been:
	"Don't equate lying, malicious, instigation and emotional
	incitement with 'offering a free choice'."

My key charges were:
	1) The Ethiopians originally agreed to a quiet ceremony by
	their own free will.
	2) No hint of racism was intended or involved.
	3) No stigma whatsoever would have resulted.
	4) Attacks charging racism and stigma were vicious lies.
	5) These lies were politically motivated. Their purpose was to
	propagandize against the Orthodox control of the rabbinate.
	The propagandists  exploited self-righteous humanitarian 
	rhetoric to incite public opinion.
	6) The Ethiopians were exploited by instigators to be pawns in
	a political melee. The politicians gained at their expense.
	
Perhaps you take issue concerning the facts. But if you accept them
as I've charged, I can't see why you would react differently.

					Yitzchok Samet