"Ethiopia have formidable historical enemies that have not stopped their sabotage for generations. Though, Ethiopia depended on Egypt – Alexandria for its Abun, the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, for about 1650 years and Egypt has been depending on the river Nile (86% of it originates from Ethiopia) for generations, there have never been any shared vision between the two ancient civilizations on how to cooperate for mutual strategic benefit and survival. Instead, Egypt has been always suspicious of Ethiopia and has been playing a number of cards to keep Ethiopia weak and in perpetual instability. It has been trying to disintegrate Ethiopia from within, exploiting Islam-Christian rivalries, ethnic differences and myths related to Semitic and Cushitic origins of Ethiopians. Egypt has also been instigating proxy conflicts from time to time using Ethiopia’s neighboring countries.
On direct military confrontation between the two countries, medieval time Emperor of Ethiopia Dawit (1381) invaded Egypt and inflicted heavy damage. In 1875/76 the Egyptians also tried to conquer Ethiopia but received a humiliating and fatal defeat in the hand of Emperor Yohannes IV.
Egypt which failed from grace and trampled under the yoke of different colonizers such as Greeks, Romans, Persians, Arabs, Ottomans, Mamluks and the British does not currently have ethnic identity. Egypt claims it is “Arab” when it faces toward the Middle East to appease its colonial masters, whereas it claims it is Cushitic when it faces toward Africa to win the black Africa."