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.
It wasn't only the soviets.
Re: It wasn't only the soviets.
Yes indeed. That is why the world remained mesmerized by the Eritrean people. Eritrea, a small fraction of Ethiopia, was able to defeat Ethiopia squarely despite the variety of foreign assistance Ethiopia got from left to right. Keep in mind that Ethiopia was amalgamated by various "conquered" tribes, who apparently have been waiting for the right time to free themselves from the Ethiopian Empire!Zmeselo wrote: ↑18 Feb 2026, 08:22ISRAEL, 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.
All the usual bragging and false claims the Ethiopians utter regularly won't hold water if one analyzes them from a firm political stand, not through hearsay here and there. The truth remains that Ethiopian leaders have always been subservient to foreign powers, including the Portuguese, English, French, the Soviet Union, Americans, and even the Italians, whom they used to brag as enemies of Ethiopia!