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Israel and Palestine: Historical Backgrounds303Holocaust (Columbia, New York, 1982).9. See TNCW, p. 433. In this case, preferences are clear, since a choice isavailable. Despite extensive pressures to compel immigration to Israel,most, particularly from European Russia, now prefer immigration to theU.S. Another relevant case is that of the Ethiopean [PW79]Jews(Falashas), who have been subject to savage persecution with littleattempt on Israel’s part to do anything for them or to “gather them in.”They of course are Black; also, Israel had close relations with Ethiopiathrough much of the worst period of persecution. For some recentcomment, see Simcha Jacobovici, alleging that “for at least six years allmajor Jewish organizations, uncharacteristically adhering to Israel’s lineon a diaspora matter, have suppressed information about the Falashas’plight and have refused to undertake major initiatives to save them,” insharp contrast to Russian Jews (Op-Ed, New York Times, April23,1983).10. Saul S. Friedman, No Haven for the Oppressed (Wayne State, Detroit,1973, pp. 222f.); Dinnerstein, op. cit., p. 223 and elsewhere; AlfredLilienthal, The Zionist Connection (Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1978,p. 56). On the reluctance of American Zionists to consider resettlement ofJews outside of Palestine during the war years and before, see Henry L.Feingold, The Politics of Rescue (Rutgers, New Brunswick, 1970, pp.13f., 69ff., 109, 123f., 237f., 264f., 298f.). See also Yehuda Bauer,American Jewry and the Holocaust (Wayne State, Detroit, 1981, pp.123f.); Uri Davis, Israel: Utopia Incorporated (Zed, London, 1977, pp.24-5); TNCW, p.466, among others. There is a scathing indictment ofthe policies of the Zionist leadership in Rabbi Moshe Shonfeld, TheHolocaust Victims Accuse: Documents and Testimony on Jewish WarCriminals, Part I (Neturei Karta of USA, Brooklyn, 1977); the publisher isaffiliated with the Jerusalem Neturei Karta, the organization of Orthodoxanti-Zionist Jews that has its roots in the pre-Zionist Jewish settlementand that now supports secular democracy rather than a Jewish state.11. Morris L. Ernst, So Far So Good (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1948,pp. 175-6).12. Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, Jan. 4, 1982. For further discussionClassics in Politics: The Fateful TriangleNoam Chomsky