User blog comment:Patogicapoeira/Jewish Ethiopia/@comment-32656-20130128084126/@comment-3398633-20130201191847

Two words. Beta Israel; the Ethiopian Jews. Ethiopians hate them. Queen Yodit, the women who destroyed the Kingdom of Aksum-the undisputed superpower of Africa, and one of four in the world at the time, was the leader of Beta Israel then. Her actions left a particularly bad taste in the mouth of Christian Ethiopians. Since then, the Ethiopians have a long and violent history with the group, and hate them to the core, so much that the Ethiopian Jews were fleeing to Israel in troves after Israel was created. There is no way this would fly in Ethiopia after all of that. Not in real life or alternate history.