...One of the things we realized very early on was that the Ethiopian Israelis had a story to tell that affected audiences here in a very profound way. When they told people that Israel was not the racist state it was portrayed to be, it made much more of an impression then when a white Israeli would say that.

The story of the Ethiopians' struggle to reach Jerusalem and The Holy Land was so moving that you really had to have a heart of stone not to be moved by it. I decided that the Ethiopian issue would be at the top of our agenda...