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[Axumezana]

After Egypt’s failure to integrate Eritrea to its territories by the end of the second world war, due to Emperor Haile
Selassie’s superior diplomatic skills, the then Egyptian Pan- Arab nationalistic President Nasser’s government
turned to ethnic and religious subversion against Ethiopia. In 1955 Egypt began working for the instigation of an
“Arab” revolution in the then autonomous Ethiopian province Eritrea, to that effect, hundreds of young Muslims
from Eritrea were invited to Cairo to study and enjoy special benefits. Though, the Muslims from Eritrea were not
native Arabic speakers they absorbed the spirit of Arab revolution and adopted a modern Arab identity.
Furthermore, these Eritreans Muslims were trained how to set up a modern guerrilla ‘liberation front’ and
established the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1959 with the support of Egypt and an Algerian Islamic
movement. Thereafter, the ELF launched an open anti-Ethiopian revolt in Eritrea in 1961, claiming and
propagating a fake Arab Eritrean identity “The Arabism of the Eritrean People”.
To promote Eritrea’s liberation from Ethiopia, Nasser also helped local Eritrean Christian Tigrayans who resisted
reunification with Ethiopia. In 1955, the prominent leader of Christian Tigrayans in Eritrea, WaldeAb
WeldeMariam, was invited to broadcast daily anti-Ethiopian propaganda on Radio Cairo and the Nasserist
regime and subsequent Egyptian governments remained the main pillar of support for the Eritrean separatist
movement.
The myth of Eritrea’s Arabism, adopted and advanced by Eritrean Muslims, was to survive until 1980’s and the
war in Eritrea that was instigated by Egypt lasted 30 years and caused untold human and financial losses both
to Ethiopia and Eritrea. As of today, Eritrea has been a de facto colony of Egypt and has been used as a proxy
war front against Ethiopia and it has been also the command post of those Egypt funded Ethiopian political
groups who opted to ally with Egypt or Eritrea to destabilize Ethiopia.

[sesame]

Hilarious when a dimwit thinks he is making sense!

[Eripoblikan]

Where was the mother when Italy spent 50 years in Eritrea?

[Axumezana]

After Egypt’s failure to integrate Eritrea to its territories by the end of the second world war, due to Emperor Haile
Selassie’s superior diplomatic skills, the then Egyptian Pan- Arab nationalistic President Nasser’s government
turned to ethnic and religious subversion against Ethiopia. In 1955 Egypt began working for the instigation of an
“Arab” revolution in the then autonomous Ethiopian province Eritrea, to that effect, hundreds of young Muslims
from Eritrea were invited to Cairo to study and enjoy special benefits. Though, the Muslims from Eritrea were not
native Arabic speakers they absorbed the spirit of Arab revolution and adopted a modern Arab identity.
Furthermore, these Eritreans Muslims were trained how to set up a modern guerrilla ‘liberation front’ and
established the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1959 with the support of Egypt and an Algerian Islamic
movement. Thereafter, the ELF launched an open anti-Ethiopian revolt in Eritrea in 1961, claiming and
propagating a fake Arab Eritrean identity “The Arabism of the Eritrean People”.
To promote Eritrea’s liberation from Ethiopia, Nasser also helped local Eritrean Christian Tigrayans who resisted
reunification with Ethiopia. In 1955, the prominent leader of Christian Tigrayans in Eritrea, WaldeAb
WeldeMariam, was invited to broadcast daily anti-Ethiopian propaganda on Radio Cairo and the Nasserist
regime and subsequent Egyptian governments remained the main pillar of support for the Eritrean separatist
movement.
The myth of Eritrea’s Arabism, adopted and advanced by Eritrean Muslims, was to survive until 1980’s and the
war in Eritrea that was instigated by Egypt lasted 30 years and caused untold human and financial losses both
to Ethiopia and Eritrea. As of today, Eritrea has been a de facto colony of Egypt and has been used as a proxy
war front against Ethiopia and it has been also the command post of those Egypt funded Ethiopian political
groups who opted to ally with Egypt or Eritrea to destabilize Ethiopia.