The ongoing debate on GERD, where it started, where it reached now
Posted: 07 Mar 2020, 08:15
I started to follow the issues of the ongoing discussion (let me not call it a conflict for now) about GERD, like all other citizens of the country are doing right now, and came across the following discussion from before a year and half in the internet today.
I found it interesting at least from two important points of view.
- the discussion seems to me to be between third party participants who are not necessarily partisan to the two party of the GERD discussion (in this case Ethiopia and Egypt) and between people who have been following the subject matter more closely over time.
- the participants of this panel-discussion seem to be in agreement that Egypt is to blame for the missing agreement and a progress on the discussion between the parties of the disagreement.
They in fact singled out Egypt as the cause of a lack of progresses on the discussion and its adamant position on making a deal and instead try to call on the historical (customary) use right on the river, which the participants called untenable now.
In the American court of justice of the current Trump Administration the Ethiopians were singled out as the culprit of the disagreement between the parties and America assumed itself to be in a position to tell the Ethiopians that they have no right to use their own resources until they (the Americans) allow them to do so. The American mockery of justice, I may call this.
I found it interesting at least from two important points of view.
- the discussion seems to me to be between third party participants who are not necessarily partisan to the two party of the GERD discussion (in this case Ethiopia and Egypt) and between people who have been following the subject matter more closely over time.
- the participants of this panel-discussion seem to be in agreement that Egypt is to blame for the missing agreement and a progress on the discussion between the parties of the disagreement.
They in fact singled out Egypt as the cause of a lack of progresses on the discussion and its adamant position on making a deal and instead try to call on the historical (customary) use right on the river, which the participants called untenable now.
In the American court of justice of the current Trump Administration the Ethiopians were singled out as the culprit of the disagreement between the parties and America assumed itself to be in a position to tell the Ethiopians that they have no right to use their own resources until they (the Americans) allow them to do so. The American mockery of justice, I may call this.