Date: 20-21.3.2009

On March 20-21st, GI held a seminar for 45 members of the Kadima party from the Ethiopean community in Israel. The seminar was attended by MK Shlomo Mulla from the Kadima Party.

The seminar included a tour to the Jerusalem Envelop as well as lectures by former PA Minister Dr. Sufyan Abu Zaida, General Manager of the Kadima Party Mr. Moshe Schori and others.

GI Director General Gadi Baltiansky, MK Shlomo Mulla and General Manager of Kadima Moshe Schori

MK Shlomo Mula (Kadima), who is from an Ethiopian origin, expressed his hopes that the participants of the seminar will use it for widening their horizons, so that each one will be able to adopt the best solution according to his judgment. MK Mula said that one, who seeks social justice as a new comer, has to be sensitive towards the need to finish occupying another nation. He called upon the Ethiopian new comers to think more on the national level and not only on the personal or the sartorial once. Mula said that preserving and strengthening the Jewish state is the highest value, and that the demographic threat is the biggest threat Israel is facing. He said that for solving that problem he prefers a small Jewish state over a bigger state that won't last. For that sake Israel has to withdraw from territories in an agreed upon way with the Palestinians. The condition to the existence of a Jewish state is that there will be a Palestinian state..

Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe Shchori, the Director General of "Kadima" party, said he supports the principle of two states for two people. Israel will not reach peace and security as long as it exists here as an occupying power. Shchori spoke against the possibility of joining Netanyahus' government because Kadima and the Likud don't have common targets with regard to the Palestinian question. He said that this seminar is important because it gives tools to understand the reality of the conflict.