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Eritrea Has Become Iran's Proxy – and a Strategic Threat to Israel and the U.S.

Eritrea has an interest in stabilizing Yemen, and the capability to do so − but its hated regime keeps it allied with Tehran. Houthi actions in the Red Sea, including attacks on ships in Eritrea's territorial waters, breaching its sovereignty, go without condemnation.

Eritrean authorities detained three Azerbaijani ships and their crews after the vessels entered Eritrean territorial waters because of severe weather en route from the Suez Canal to Abu Dhabi. This incident highlights the increasing influence of Iran over Eritrea, as the Eritrean regime appears to be targeting Azerbaijan, a close ally of Israel. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/2025 ... ff30e60000

According to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), the Mengistu regime received US$83 million worth of Israeli military aid in 1987, and Israel deployed some 300 military advisers to Ethiopia. Additionally, the EPLF claimed that thirty-eight Ethiopian pilots had gone to Israel for training. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea ... dependence





Dayan Discloses Israel Is Selling Arms to Ethiopia

February 7, 1978

By H. D. S. Greenway

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... 97a195b6e/

JERUSALEM -- Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan disclosed yesterday that Israel is selling arms to the Marxist government in Ethiopia to assist that country in its fight against neighboring Somalia and in its efforts to put down a rebellion in its northern provinces of Eritrea.

Dayan's remarks confirmed press reports from correspondents on the scene of continuing Israeli aid to Ethiopia.

By going public, however, Dayan has put Israel in the curious position of being an acknowledged, if indirect, ally of the Soviet Union in Moscow's military backing of Ethiopia at a time when the United States and the West are expressing growing concern about Soviet intentions in the Horn of Africa.





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Clearly, the advantage still lies with the Israel-trained commando police and the Ethiopian Army, whose Second Division, based in Eritrea....

https://history.state.gov/historicaldoc ... e05p1/d287





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As Dennis J. Wamsted pointed out in the January issue of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, in 1990 US taxpayers will provide Israel with its usual aid package of $3 billion, much of which goes to support Israel's huge military establishment. Israel in turn has just agreed to give Ethiopia a variety of military equipment, including cluster bombs, in exchange for permission to establish an electronic listening post on the Dahlak Islands in the Red Sea and the emigration to Israel of 20,000 Ethiopian Jews, known as Falashas. According to the Sunday Times of London (Dec. 10), the Ethiopian air force has found cluster bombs to be the most effective weapon against truck convoys carrying food to the rebels of Eritrea and Tigre.

https://www.wrmea.org/1990-march/israel ... reans.html

U.S. Confronts Israel on Ethiopia Cluster Bombs : Military aid: The weapons reportedly have been used against rebels. Jerusalem’s response has been vague.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html


Israeli weaponry in Ethiopia:

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The Trump administration stands at a pivotal crossroads, with a rare chance to reshape the Horn of Africa by moving beyond the idealistic foreign policies of previous administrations and adopting a pragmatic approach that aligns with the region’s complex realities while advancing American interests in a volatile geopolitical landscape. https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/12/27/e ... le-corner/

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