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[SETIT @SetitMedia]

Selective Sovereignty and the Irony of a Failing State: Unpacking the Pharaoh Yoke Paradox -
https://t.co/9sLxowGShI | Overview

When Major General Teshome Gemechu sat before the Ethiopian state broadcaster to address the growing regional conversation around Ximdo, he h...

[𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐄𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 🌐 @NationalEr_Int]

Audacity of Potemkin Party minions and their hired apologists is indeed beyond the pale !!!

[Kendel tube @dv785]

ሙርከኛው ጀነራል ኣህያ ይሉሃል ይሄ ነው

[Filippo Bovo @FilippoBovo83]

From provocations for access to the sea to threats of a new regional conflict, Abiy Ahmed's government is increasingly fanning the flames of war with Eritrea to avoid internal collapse. My last analysis. https://t.co/16EBg8RmjS

[Eriid🇪🇷❤️ ዕርዲ @eri_id_]

ISRAEL, THE DERG & THE RED SEA WAR (1977)

In 1977, Italian journalist Fulvio Grimaldi laid out what many tried to silence.
He said that beyond the visible Soviet and Cuban presence backing the Derg, there were Israeli advisors who had remained in Ethiopia from the days of Haile Selassie training elite naval units, intelligence services, and maintaining influence over the strategic Dahlak Islands off Massawa.
He pointed out something even more explosive:
The F-5E fighter jets used to bomb villages in the Danakil region were aircraft unfamiliar to Ethiopia’s largely depleted air force after pilot defections. His claim? Those jets were most likely being flown by Israeli pilots.
Let that sink in.
A regime shouting “socialism” and “anti-imperialism”
while foreign powers manoeuvred for control of the Red Sea.
Villages in flames.
Geopolitics written in blood.
History remembers who controlled the skies.
History remembers who paid the price.

#Eritrea #ISRAEL #DERG #Ethiopia #RedSeaGeopolitics #DergRegime #DahlakIslands #HornOfAfrica #AfricanHistory

[khaled mahmoued @khaledmahmoued1]

Whenever a head of state or government visits him, he plays the victimhood card, implicitly threatening war and persistently beating the drums of conflict.

This repetitive and tedious narrative regarding Ethiopia's population,and his claim that remaining a landlocked nation is "unjust",has become utterly absurd.

​Nevertheless, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated this stance in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claiming that the latter is set to undertake mediation efforts after agreeing to play a role so that Ethiopia can gain peaceful sea access.

He stated: "We have been geographically imprisoned for a long time, and this is not right. Logistics is one of our biggest bottlenecks,sea access is the key."

​Here, the Ethiopian leader once again employs the "geographical imprisonment" fallacy.

In international law, there is no such thing as a "right to sovereignty over the territories of others" simply because a state is landlocked.

For the record, there are more than 44 landlocked countries in the world that live in peace and prosper through commercial agreements, not through "seizure of land" or threats of "demographic explosion."

​Abiy Ahmed, in his attempt to portray the Turkish position as support for his ambitions, either forgot or ignored that Erdoğan signed a maritime defense agreement with Somalia.

This means Turkey now holds significant interests along the Somali coastline. How then can Turkey grant Ethiopia what it does not own?

In reality, what Erdoğan proposed is mediation to ensure strictly commercial usage through agreements with the concerned states, in exchange for Ethiopia abandoning its recognition of the separatist region of "Somaliland."

​I reiterate: Abiy Ahmed’s repeated use of the "130 million Ethiopians" figure is a blatant attempt at demographic intimidation of his neighbors and an effort to export internal crises,specifically the civil wars in Amhara and Tigray,toward a foreign enemy or a delusional "national dream."

​Ultimately, access to the sea is readily available through Djibouti, Eritrea, and Somali ports via legal channels.

However, Abiy Ahmed is seeking "sovereignty," not "trade," and therein lies the true danger.

[SETIT @SetitMedia]

Ninety Years in the Sky: How Ethiopia’s Air Force Learned to Rule by Fire -
https://t.co/0rOIvDv9Po | There are moments when a military parade tells you more by what it hides than by what it shows. Ethiopia’s recent celebration of the 90th anniversary of its air force was...

[David Yeh @Yehdavid]

On November 30& December 1, 1970, the #Ethiopia n army killed nearly 1,000 civilians in the #Eritrea n villages of Besikdira& Ona, erasing them from the map. Despite being among z worst atrocities in 20th century HoA, these events remain largely unknown.👇
https://t.co/fVviUCX7ie

[#InvestInEritrea 👩🏿‍🔧 🇪🇷🇪🇷 @DahlaKib]

Fifty-five years ago, on November 30 and December 1, 1970, two small Eritrean villages, Besikdira and Ona, were erased from the map by the Ethiopian army of occupation. In barely 48 hours, nearly a thousand civilians, men, women, children, the elderly, were slaughtered. Families disappeared entirely; communities that had stood for centuries ceased to exist. And yet these atrocities, among the worst committed in the Horn of Africa in the twentieth century, remain largely unknown beyond Eritrea’s borders and denied by those who carried them out. https://t.co/GHYHhCC3uZ

[ዘካርያስ ገሪማ @ZecariasG]

Ethiopians love to brand themselves as the uncolonized, the proud fortress of Pan-Africanism, the moral centre of the continent. But for all the slogans, nothing exposes the hypocrisy more than their annexation of Eritrea and their constant threats to re-invade its sovereign territory. And while one expects the insanity from the prime imposter, the sheer number of other Ethiopians cheering along is deeply worrying for the long term.

[Berhane @EmbassyEritrea]

It must be clearly stated that #Ethiopia - since its inception as a country has never, at any point in history, possessed sovereign access to the #RedSea. The only time it used Eritrean ports was during its illegal #occupation of Eritrea - an occupation rejected by the Eritrean people and defeated through a 30-year protracted struggle for #independence. Eritrea’s #sovereignty and territorial integrity was achieved through enormous sacrifice and is not subject for any negotiation or revision. Any attempt by Ethiopia’s current PP leadership to lay claim to Eritrean land or ports like Assab or any other place for that matter, is not only historically false but also an open violation of international law and the 1963 OAU principle that upholds colonial boundaries. Such reckless rhetoric serves only to destabilize the region and expose the aggressor nature of those who utter it. Eritrea’s sovereignty is not a topic for debate; it is a settled and irreversible reality.
#EritreaPrevails
#AU

[Sharron Yemane @Sharronyemane]

In Memory of Operation Fenkil 1990 #Massawa #ERITREA 🇪🇷

No one can take away Eritrea's glorious history and all its sacred moments away from the Eritrean people.
አይረሳዕናዮን ዝክሪ ��ሉፍ ዛንታና 😭🇪🇷
#ERITREA #MASSAWA #FENKILAT35

[Simon K Hagos @tewerwari_1]

#Eritrea’s whip-smart diplomatic approach has cornered #Ethiopia’s rag tag leadership to the edge. Through its calm, collected & confident responses, the world is now forced to identify “Potemkin party” as a war mongering vicious clique. “soft” but firm diplomatic tone.

[THE HORN POLITICS MEDIA NETWORK @HornPolitics]

While Eritrea stands for regional stability & cooperation, P.M of #Ethiopia is threatening to invade #Eritrea. Inter’l community must condemn such rhetoric. #Assab is the #Genesis of #Eritrea
@StateDept @WhiteHouse @MFA_China @mfa_russia @PMOIndia @antonioguterres @MfaEgypt

[ዘካርያስ ገሪማ @ZecariasG]

I often think about the past 70 years of history between Eritrea and Ethiopia. If nothing else, this period has made one truth unmistakably clear: peace costs less and gives far more.

What if, in 1941, after defeating the Italians, the British had simply supported Eritrean self-rule? No federation. No annexation. No absurd proposal to split Eritrea between Sudan and Ethiopia. Just a sovereign Eritrean government, no questions asked. We might have avoided decades of death, exile, destruction and grief. Both countries would be so much better off than they are now.

Millions of Eritreans and Ethiopians would not have died. Both nations could have prospered side by side. Eritrea might have continued building the efficient, upward-trending economy it had until the early 1970s. Ethiopia could have kept its monarchy, modernized earlier, and avoided the collapse and chaos that followed 1974.

Instead, Ethiopia burned an estimated $85 billion on war from the 1960s to 2000. That was money that could have built roads, schools, national unity, and a future. Eritrea stood still for the last 60 years.

The path of peace was possible then and it’s still possible now. So I wonder: why not peace now? Why must we live in this curse? Why did we need to suffer so much fighting each other, for so long, only to learn what was always true?

[Amb. Sophia Tesfamariam @AmbStesfamariam]

Some gullible individuals are being manipulated into believing that the @UN General Assembly through its resolution which federated #Eritrea with #Ethiopia, also gave Ethiopia sovereignty over #Eritrean territories, including its ports.

The @UN General Assembly does NOT have the right to transfer the sovereign territory of one state to another. The @UN Charter emphasizes the principles of national self-determination and the sovereignty of states. While the General Assembly can discuss and make recommendations on issues related to territorial integrity,it cannot unilaterally decide to transfer territory.

Resolution 390 A(V) federated #Eritrea with #Ethiopia , but this did not equate to sovereignty over #Eritrea or its ports. While #Ethiopia was granted access to the sea through the federation, #Eritrea retained sovereignty over its own territory, including its ports.

The resolution established a federation, not outright annexation or sovereignty transfer… it was #Ethiopia that unilaterally annexed #Eritrea… and the rest is history.

It is intellectual dishonesty to try to hoodwink the gullible with erroneous claims about what the Resolution stipulated and what it did not.

The Resolution identified a “need”, and in order to satisfy that need, it provided #Ethiopia with access through #Eritrea, an outlet to the sea, not sovereignty over #Eritrea or its ports…

The needs of landlocked states can be addressed only by respecting international law, the @UN Charter and through bilateral agreements that respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states

[ዘካርያስ ገሪማ @ZecariasG]

If you’ve ever wondered where old idiots go to die, here’s your answer: they become lobbyists for PP peddling stale clichés and empty talking points. This dull old man tosses out non-sequiturs and labels them genius, all to justify an imbecile clown’s absurd threats against a neighbor that hasn’t once denied port access. I would readily donate to a GoFundMe if this poor man were to promise to delete his account and go home and take a nap.

[Malex @teneg91]

We have to continue to call them for what they are.
Settler colonialists. Black african settlers, who have always sided with western imperialists against neighboring states in the Horn of Africa.

[Abel Negasi @AbelNegasi4]

The common denominator of the Ethiopian leaders, from Menelik to Haile Selassie, derg, woyane, and now orumuma, is expansionism and greed for their neighbors' resources, as well as the constant falsification of history. Is it a disease or a hereditary genetic problem?