Kadima MK: Replace foreign agricultural workers with Ethiopian immigrants - Haaretz

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Kadima MK: Replace foreign agricultural workers with Ethiopian immigrants

By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent

MK Marina Solodkin (Kadima) said Wednesday that the number of foreign workers in the agriculture sector could be reduced and replaced with Ethiopian immigrants.

The former deputy minister of immigrant absorption made the comments during a meeting with Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson, Finance Ministry officials and Kadima MKs in preparation for the Knesset hearings on the 2007 budget.

There was no reaction to Solodkin's comments during the meeting, but afterwards MKs called them embarrassing.

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Solodkin rejected the criticism, saying that Ethiopian immigrants that had recently been released from the army approached her during her term as deputy minister of immigrant absorption and "asked for land, water, and to work in agriculture."

"Whoever accuses me of racism doesn't know what he is talking about," she said. "I wanted to help them realize their dream to become proud farmers."

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1.	so could the number of insensitive and thoughtless MKs	10:47	\|	Bruno	05/10/06

2.	Well, it depends...	10:59	\|	Francois	05/10/06

3.	let her plough the fields	11:00	\|	SJ	05/10/06

4.	Welcome News!	11:41	\|	Alicia	05/10/06

5.	Plouhing the Fields	11:41	\|	Dror	05/10/06

6.	Jobs for Ethiopians. What a racist concept!	12:48	\|	Bennie	05/10/06

7.	Ethiopian Immigrants	13:01	\|	Terry Brodsky	05/10/06

8.	How racist can she be!	13:08	\|	Evelyn	05/10/06

9.	just like Le Pen	13:27	\|	whoopwhoop	05/10/06

10.	#2 Francois, you misunderstand	13:36	\|	Yonatan	05/10/06

11.	Yonatan (Post No. 10)	14:18	\|	Johnny Weintraub	05/10/06

12.	Reply to #10 Yonatan : I get it	14:35	\|	Francois	05/10/06

13.	ReplaceForeigners with Ethiopians , and replace Kadima	14:36	\|	Sal	05/10/06

14.	to 106	14:40	\|	* TALKBACK OBSERVER*	05/10/06

15.	Not surprising...Just another Kadima moron.	14:43	\|	bat yam	05/10/06

16.	Waiting impatiently for Kadima to leave the scene...anyday now.	14:45	\|	bat yam	05/10/06

17.	Yonatan & Francois: more info	15:03	\|	David Teich	05/10/06

18.	Work for all	15:06	\|	Ethan	05/10/06

19.	Replace Olmert Peretz Halutz and the whole Kadima	15:09	\|	Norman	05/10/06

20.	I agree on replacing palestinians but this is absurd	15:45	\|	Bimmer	05/10/06

21.	Farmers, not slaves	15:45	\|	avi	05/10/06

22.	Silence is golden	15:47	\|	Dani Reiss	05/10/06

23.	Ethiopian immigrants	16:10	\|	Gigel	05/10/06

24.	SHEKET: do what I say but not what I do	17:02	\|	jean marie	05/10/06

25.	nonsensical reactions	17:06	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	05/10/06

26.	Yonatan yes but..	17:17	\|	Danite	05/10/06

27.	yeah. not racist at all	17:49	\|	x	05/10/06

28.	Wow, suddenly here are political-correct Israeli`s	18:02	\|	Jeroen	05/10/06

29.	It used to be...	18:10	\|	Mike	05/10/06

30.	continuation of comment	18:11	\|	Mike	05/10/06