BY ALMARIAM
PART ONE
Why is Jeffrey Feltman going to Ethiopia at this “critical moment”? Feltman is going to Ethiopia to deliver an ultimatum according to a congressional source. Feltman will tell Ethiopian leaders:
“All options are on the table, from Global Magnitsky (sanctions over human rights violations) to an executive order on sanctions, to removal from (the African Growth and Opportunity Act), to more restrictive measures on assistance as well as ways to block Ethiopia’s efforts to get cash from international financial institutions.”
TPLF “Hitman” Goeth to Ethiopia again!
The Iceman Cometh but the TPLF Hitman Goeth to Ethiopia.
On August 12, 2021, President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tweeted “The President has asked Special Envoy Feltman to return to Ethiopia at this critical moment. We call on all parties to urgently come to the negotiating table.”
On August 12, 2021, Samantha Power retweeted, “There is no military solution to this conflict. Humanitarian needs are already dire but they will get much worse unless all parties agree to dialogue & ending hostilities.”
On August 12, 2021, the State Department announced, “U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will travel to Djibouti, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates from August 15 to August 24.”
On August 12, 2021, I retweeted Sullivan and Power. “Ooh wee! Somebody is hitting panic button. Not a pip for 2 mos from Jake when TPLF deployed child soldiers, massacred hundreds in Afar and Amhara regions. TPL-Feltman on white horse to save the day. Ha! Let TPLF negotiate on battlefield. Let’s keep Ethiopia great nation, always.”
It all goes back to April 23, 2021, when Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Feltman was named “Special Envoy” to lead an international diplomatic effort to address the interlinked political, security, and humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa.”
Before the ink was dry on his appointment paper, Feltman came out with guns blazing.
On April 24, 2021, a day after his appointment, Feltman lobbed a condemnatory declaration: “Ethiopia has brushed aside African Union mediation efforts and sub regional organizations that cover the Horn of Africa, the IGAD, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development as authoritarian leaders in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia draw closer at the expense of the wider collective.”
On April 26, 2021, days before he left for Ethiopia, Feltman forewarned Foreign Policy, “If the tensions in Ethiopia would result in a widespread civil conflict that goes beyond Tigray, Syria will look like child’s play by comparison.”
On May 3, 2021, the U.S. State Department announced reiterated Feltman is expected “to lead a sustained diplomatic effort to address the interlinked political, security, and humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa.”
In my May 2, 2021 commentary “Susan Rice’s Revenge and Last Hurrah: Jeffrey TPLFeltman (Hitman) Is Itching for a Fight in Ethiopia/Horn of Africa!”, I demonstrated Feltman’s real mission as Susan Rice’s “special stooge” (“envoy”) to the Horn of Africa is to change and take control of the narrative and to bully and intimidate the leaders and peoples of the Horn of Africa.”
In my May 8, 2021 commentary, “What is an “Ugly American Diplomat” Doing in Beautiful Ethiopia?” I argued Feltman believes he is “going to read the riot act to Ethiopia’s “authoritarian” leaders and bring them down to their knees begging, ‘Uncle Sam Feltman, massuh, boss, have mercy on us! We are poor African savages. We’ll do as you say massuh!’”
On May 14, 2021, following Feltman’s visit the State Department announced, “The United States will work with our international allies and partners to secure a ceasefire, end this brutal conflict, provide the life-saving assistance that is so urgently needed, and hold those responsible for human rights abuses and violations accountable.”
A Fool’s Errand: Why is Feltman going to Ethiopia now?
The Associated Press quoting a congressional source reported Feltman, in so many words, is going to Ethiopia to kick ass and force the Ethiopian Government to negotiate with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a terror group registered in the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) and Terror Research and Analysis Consortium (TRAC).
Feltman is expected to dress down and whip Ethiopian leaders until they cry out, “Have mercy, Uncle Sam massuh! Uncle Jeff, massuh!”
The congressional source explained: I understand all options are on the table, from Global Magnitsky (sanctions over human rights violations) to an executive order on sanctions, to removal from (the African Growth and Opportunity Act), to more restrictive measures on assistance as well as ways to block Ethiopia’s efforts to get cash from international financial institutions.
Suffice it to say the Italian colonial masters came to Ethiopia in 1896 and 1935 to kick ass and found out Ethiopians are the biggest ass kickers in the world. If the Biden administration wants to intensify its diplomatic, political and economic war on Ethiopia on behalf of the TPLF, then so be it.
The great American revolutionary Thomas Pain wrote, “I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.”
If the Biden administration wants to bring trouble to Ethiopia, let it come in our time so that our children and children’s children will live in peace.
It is said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The Biden administration, specifically Susan Rice, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Samantha Power, etc., before it was even inaugurated has been trashing Ethiopian sovereignty and openly favoring the TPLF terrorist groups and pressuring the Ethiopian Government to enter into “dialogue” and “negotiations” with it.
The Ethiopian Government’s answer has been clear and unambiguous: There will be dialogue or negotiations with the TPLF, a group declared “terrorist” by the Ethiopian parliament, when hell freezes over. To be sure, not until all the TPLF terrorist leaders are locked up behind the gates of hell.
I am not saying Feltman and his bosses are insane by nauseatingly repeating their mantra of “dialogue” and “negotiations” with the TPLF.
What I am saying is Feltman and his bosses simply do not understand Ethiopians or Ethiopia.
Real knowledge of Ethiopia and Ethiopians begins with two simple questions: 1) How did Ethiopians manage to maintain their independence for millennia without foreign domination? 2) “How did Ethiopians manage to keep their country free of white European colonialism when every part of Africa came under colonial imperialist rule after Berlin Conference of 1884 with the portioning of Africa?
I will not take time to answer these questions. Suffice it to say, there is something called “Ethiopian exceptionalism” that offers a unique perspective on these questions.
If Feltman is sent to make his second-round visit with the delusion that he is going to bring Ethiopia to its knees by barking out orders and threats of sanctions and other punishments, he will surely be disappointed.
The script that runs in the DNA of every patriotic Ethiopian is, “I would rather be free and dead in my grave than live as a Western neocolonial puppet or a slave.”
Exhibit A: Behold the hundreds of thousands of young Ethiopians who have volunteered to fight the TPLF until the kingdom comes.
A long-forgotten 18th century English clergyman wrote, “Did not the Pope send all the Princes in Christendom upon a Fool’s Errand, to gain the Holy Land, that he might (as he did in their absence) rob them of their territories.”
I am compelled to ask a similar question. “Did not the President of the United States send his Special Envoy upon a Fool’s Errand, to gain the Holy Land of Ghion (reference to present day Ethiopia in Genesis 2:13) that he might break up and dismember their territories or install neocolonial viceroys for them?”
Speaking truth to Feltman and his bosses
The Biden administration has been treating Ethiopia like dirt months before it formally took office.
In the early hours of November 4, 2020, the TPLF launched an attack on the Ethiopian Northern Command and massacred and tortured thousands of federal soldiers.
The TPLF’s aim was to destroy the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) in a blitzkrieg attack and swiftly take over power. In less than three weeks, the ENDF and supporting regional forces made mincemeat of the TPLF.
Beginning on November 14 (before the Biden administration took office), Susan Rice, a longtime supporter of the TPLF sounded the alarm the TPLF was going to crash and burn and frantically tweeted asking the Trump administration to exercise “principled leadership” and save the TPLF.
On November 18, 2020, Antony Blinken, later to become Secretary of State, tweeted he was “deeply concerned about the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia” and demanded “Ethiopian authorities should take urgent steps to end the conflict, enable humanitarian access, and protect civilians.”
On November 24, 2020, Jake Sullivan, later to become National Security Advisor tweeted he is “deeply concerned about the risk of violence against civilians, including potential war crimes.”
For the past 10 months, Susan Rice, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Samantha Powers and others have waged proxy propaganda, diplomatic, economic and political war for the TPLF on Ethiopia.
On August 11, 2021, the Ethiopian Government cancelled the unilateral ceasefire it had declared on June 29 against the TPLF.
The TPLF rejected the ceasefire and launched an offensive against neighboring regions killing and looting civilians. The TPLF massacred over 240 civilians in the Afar region alone.
On August 12, 2021, the Biden administration, France and the so-called human rights organizations began cackling for “dialogue” and “negotiations”.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald August 17/2021
