PART ONE
September 11, 2021 (Gregorian calendar) is Ethiopian New Year’s Day, Meskerem 1, 2014. [1]
On September 11, 2018 (Gregorian calendar), I celebrated Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia after a 48-year absence. What a happy and blessed new year it was for me and my family.
On September 11, 2018, I also had the opportunity of a lifetime to travel to Eritrea and witness live and in person the official opening of the borders between Ethiopia and Eritrea at Zalanbessa and Bure after a 20-year long militarization of the border area.
I was present and in person when the guns were silenced and the two countries pledged to live in peace as brothers and sisters.
It was one of the happiest days in my life to see Ethiopians and Eritreans coming together to bury the hatchet.
It was a fulfillment of prophesy. “Nations shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.”
Peace in the region was replaced by war in November 2020 when the terrorist TPLF junta attacked both Ethiopia and Eritrea. But the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea came together as one and decimated the TPLF terrorists.
Today, I extend my very best wishes to my Ethiopian brothers and sisters in Ethiopia and in the diaspora on Ethiopian New Year’s (Enqutatash “gift of jewels”) Day.
Happy new year, happy new government, happy new Ethiopia (2014 E.C.)! Ethiopians united can never be defeated!
Today, I extend my very best wishes to my Eritrean brothers and sisters in Eritrea and in the diaspora Ruhus Hadush Amet. Ethiopians and Eritreans united can never be defeated!
My message for the Ethiopian New Year
To All Ethiopians: Ethiopians united in their ETHIOPIAWINET can never be defeated!
Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. taught, “We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.”
Today, the terrorist TPLF junta wants us to perish with them as fools.
Today, the coddlers of the terrorist junta — the U.S., the European Union, Egypt, Sudan and their lackeys in the international so-called human rights organizations and multilateral organizations and Western press-titute media – keep trying to plunge Ethiopia into civil war and make her Africa’s Syria, Libya or Yemen.
Our enemies think they can destroy us believing we are weak, divided and downright stupid. They thought they could play us like they have the others.
But we showed our enemies the power of unity, the power of will, the power of patriotism. In other words, the POWER OF ETHIOPIAWINET.
We taught our enemies, domestic and foreign, that strength does not come from physical capacity nor from guns and gunships, warships, airships and tanks.
Strength comes from an indomitable will. That indomitable will for Ethiopians is called ETHIOPIAWINET.
I defined Ethiopiawinet by inventing new English words for it: YOUNITY and HUMNITY.
In April 2012, I prophesied Ethiopia’s resurrection from the graveyard of ethnic apartheid will occur when we achieve “YOUNTIY” and “HUMINITY”.
“YOUNTIY” is when you and I – all proud and patriotic Ethiopians — together stand for the equality and dignity of the Ethiopian community.
“HUMINITY” is unity based not on ethnicity or nationality but on a blend of core universal values of human dignity and the African ethic of “ubunity”. We are human beings before we are any nationality or ethnicity.
Ethiopians today have developed wide and deep consensus on their Ethiopiawinet. They have achieved unity of thought, unity of purpose and unity of consciousness.
ETHIOPIAWINET, ALWAYS!
To all Ethiopians: It is not the size of the dog in the fight that determines the winner but the size of the fight in the dog!
Our foreign enemies believe they can use their wealth, military, economic, political and diplomatic power to twist our arms and break our knees and get us to beg them for mercy.
Our foreign enemies do not know us. They underestimate us because their minds are diseased by white supremacy. They believe because they are big dogs with big guns, tanks and planes, they can crush us.
They do not learn from history. Ethiopia remained free of white colonial rule because, to paraphrase an American patriot, we believe in the maxim, “Give me dignity or give me death.”
Our forefathers and foremothers died defending Ethiopia’s dignity against white colonial powers. Ethiopian dignity is non-negotiable with neocolonialist. Our enemies can talk about “inclusive dialogue”, negotiated ceasefire” or whatever so they can restore their lackeys to power.
In the end, our enemies will lose because it is not the size of the dog in the fight that determines the winner but the size of the fight in the dog! We Ethiopians may be small dogs, but we are all fight, all fight!
To Ethiopia’s Youth (Cheetah Generation): It is your divinely ordained mission to protect, defend and preserve Ethiopia against all enemies domestic and foreign! For over a decade I have been preaching Ethiopia’s youth are the only earthly salvation for Ethiopia.
I have written about Ethiopia’s Cheetah generation at great length over the years. In August 2012, I wrote, “Only a coalition of cheetahs organized across ethnic, religious, linguistic and regional lines can crush a crash of hippos and a cackle of hyenas and save Ethiopia.”
I have seen videos of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian Cheetahs volunteering to defend Ethiopia against TPLF terrorism and their Western coddlers. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for your service to Ethiopia!
Know that it is your divinely ordained mission to protect, defend and preserve Ethiopia against all enemies domestic and foreign!
You should be proud you had a chance to live up to the glory of your forefathers and foremothers at the Battle of Adwa and victories during the Italian colonial occupation in 1936-41. Your forefathers and foremothers fought and defeated colonialism. Now, it is your gift, duty and obligation to fight and defeat neocolonialism.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
BY ALMARIAM
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD 14 SEPTEMBER 2021
