Chapter 15 Summary and Analysis

The newly constructed tourist resort seventy-five miles north of Port Sudan apparently went bankrupt. During the night in January 1985, all of the staff vanished, leaving behind food and the money for a refund to the guests. What the guests didn't know is that the resort was a Mossad front and part of Operation Moses, which concerned the rescue of Ethiopian Jews and moving then to Israel. Most of them passed through the tourist resort.

The Falashas had left Israel with the Queen of Sheba. They were Jews and covered by the Law of Return, which automatically grants Israeli citizenship to Jews who move to Israel. Israel supplied weapons to Ethiopia for use in its civil war in exchange for the release of the Falasha. The Falasha were flooding into refugee camps in the Sudan to escape drought, famine and war in...