Barack Obama invites first black Miss Israel to dinner
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Barack Obama invites first black Miss Israel to dinner
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...ck-miss-israel
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Preview of meal served at White House for Miss Israel visit.
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Why do the sashes say 2013 and not the current Hebrew year?![]()
MONDAY, JAN 28, 2013 03:38 PM CSTIsrael admits Ethiopian Jewish immigrants were given birth control shots
An Israeli journalist also found that most of the women given the shots say they were coerced
BY KATIE MCDONOUGH
TOPICS: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, BIRTH CONTROL, WOMEN, ETHIOPIA, LIFE NEWS, NEWS
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Israel has admitted that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth control injections, according to a report in Haaretz. An Israeli investigative journalist also found that a majority of the women given these shots say they were administered without their knowledge or consent.
Health Ministry Director General Prof. Ron Gamzu acknowledged the practice without directly conceding coercion was involved in a letter to Israeli health maintenance organizations, instructing gynecologists in the HMOs not to renew prescriptions for Depo-Provera for women of Ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment.
Depo-Provera is a hormonal form of birth control that is injected every three months.
Gamzu issued the letter in response to a complaint from Sharona Eliahu-Chai of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel. Representing several womens rights and Ethiopian immigrant groups, Eliahu-Chai demanded an immediate end to the injections and that an investigation be launched into the practice.
In addition to Eliahu-Chai, Gal Gabbay, an investigative journalist who had interviewed 35 Ethiopian immigrants, found that while the women were still in transit camps in Ethiopia they were sometimes intimidated or threatened into taking the Depo-Provera shot, often being misled about why. They told us they are inoculations, said one of the women interviewed. They told us people who frequently give birth suffer. We took it every three months. We said we didnt want to.
Birth rates and demographics in Israel are often political, and Israel has historically focused on promoting Jewish birthrates to retain a Jewish majority, according to a recent New York Timesreport on fertility and in-vetro fertilization in the country.
But Ethiopian Jews remain a marginalized group, often living in highly segregated communities. Because of this, many womens and immigrant rights advocates believe that the 50 percent decline over the past 10 years in the birthrate of Israels Ethiopian community is the result of the Israeli governments attempt to limit and restrict Ethiopian womens fertility through forcible birth control injections.
Hedva Eyal, head of the Women and Technologies Project for Israeli feminist organization Isha LIsha, had submitted a report six years ago to the Israeli government showing a disproportionate number of birth control shots 60 percent were being given to Ethiopian immigrants. She says she was met with silence, until now.
The ease with which a womans testimony is dismissed certainly that of a black woman and a poor black woman at that is shocking, Eyal told the Los Angeles Times.
Also hoping Israels health minister will take further action, Eyal added that the bottom line was that decisions about womens health and fertility can and must be made by the women alone. For that, they must have full and fair access to all relevant information and that did not seem to have been the case, she said.
Katie McDonough is an assistant editor for Salon, focusing on lifestyle. Follow her on Twitter @kmcdonovgh or email her at kmcdonough@salon.com.
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She was lucky to be Born. So lets sum up. Jews have now gone full Hitler...
if you look at the tape, she's far from the prettiest...her chin/jaw area is awfoe...but we must all bow down to the gods of political correctness. there are some beautiful sabras.....it is so obvious why she was "chosen"....the israelis have problems with the birthrates of the "blaeks". she doesn't even look ethiopian, her features aren't as refined and her nose is flat.
oh well, it's over.
Last edited by isabella; 03-14-2013 at 02:31 PM.
When practicing a from of Genocide in your own community god's have nothing to do with it. Hey sending people to concentration camps, starving them, gassing them, burning them in ovens is rather hands on but chemically getting rid of them is just another means to the same end. So.. Jews have come full circle and gone Full Hitler.
Lentils are tiny. Black eyed peas are definitely larger (although they're not large by any means - smaller than red beans, or lima beans). I'm going to go with lima beans in that pic.
You should pick up a can or bag of black eyed peas and try them out! Every New Years Day (for the past couple of years, since my mom passed away), I've been making Hoppin' John (basically, black eyed peas with chopped bacon and cayenne pepper) with black eyed peas for "good luck." Let me know, I'd be happy to pass on the recipe that I found for 'em to you.
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