Examines the political aspects of the rescue of Ethiopian Jewry in the 1980s-90s, focusing on the factors at work in the U.S. and in Israel. In the 1970s, Israel was reluctant to accept Ethiopian refugees, but changed its policy due to a large extent to a group of Jewish activists in the U.S. who prodded Israel to take action. The American Association for Ethiopian Jews (AAEJ) was founded in 1974 and became the principal American organization advocating on behalf of the Beta Israel. Relates the suffering of Ethiopian Jews, which is attributed to a combination of discrimination, hostility on the part of local Christians, and the Jews being caught in a crossfire between the government and the rebels. Jews were persecuted for attempting to flee the country in order to reach Israel. Ch. 10 (177-188), "The Holocaust Analogy", discusses how the AAEJ compared the situation of Jews in Ethiopia with that of Jews facing the Holocaust in order to stir Israel and America to action.