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The relationship between the #UAE, #Israel and #Ethiopia is explained succinctly by the renowned #Oromo Professor Ezekiel Gebissa in a longer interview with Stalin Ghebresilase @StalinTeklu of Zara Media. The following is a close translation of what he said in this clip. "The main link between #Israel and #Ethiopia is the #UAE. At the moment, it is the #UAE who is dictating all the major economic, military and political activities in #Ethiopia? . Who is supplying the money? Who is buying and providing the drones and ammunition for those drones, not only for Ethiopia but also for those supplied to the #RSF through #Ethiopia? Who is buying Ethiopia's gold? for instance, who bought the 150 armored vehicles we saw recently delivered to Ethiopia? Did Ethiopia pay for these acquisitions? Does Ethiopia have the capacity to finance all these activities? For instance, Ethiopia has announced the purchase of Su-35 fighter jets and S-400 air-defence batteries, which together amount to a quarter of Ethiopia's annual budget. Can Ethiopia finance such enormous expenditures? Some delusional members of the PP might tell you, "We are the Prosperity Party; we have all the money." But is it not a fact that Ethiopia was recently begging the IMF @IMFAfrica to extend the terms of its debt? Abiy is going everywhere asking for more loans and extensions on existing debts. Ethiopia is a country that survives on financial assistance, debt cancellations and humanitarian aid. Abiy does not have the money to service all its debts! He does not have the money to build universities or alleviate the cost-of-living crisis of its people, yet he somehow has the money to purchase enormous quantities of military weapons. These weapons are not free; they cost money. So, what is happening in Ethiopia at the moment? The main policies being pursued in Ethiopia today are not issues that serve the agenda of Ethiopians. They are not in Ethiopia's national interest. The port issue is not an #Ethiopian issue! The #Eritrea issue is not an Ethiopian issue! What took place in Somalia is not an Ethiopian issue! The civil war in Sudan, in which Ethiopia has taken the side of the RSF and is contributing to #Sudan's destruction, is not an Ethiopian issue. These are the agendas of another country! That country is the United Arab Emirates (UAE)! If the mercenary we saw in #Tigray is #Israeli, then we can now see the deal made between the #UAE and #Israel during the Iran war taking effect. The UAE's agenda across the entire Horn of #Africa is to use Ethiopia as its main direct colony in the region to expand its power and influence, including through its insistence on occupying #Assab. The person behind all these agendas is the President of the UAE. The man Abiy calls his big brother is the one whose agenda Ethiopia is carrying out. It is Mohamed bin Zayed's agenda that Ethiopia is fulfilling. This is something the people of Ethiopia must understand. If this is not clear to the Ethiopian people, then everything else that is happening will remain unclear. This is why we say that Ethiopia is not owned and governed by Ethiopians. It is unlikely that high-ranking officials can pretend they do not know what is going on. However, most of them are on the UAE's payroll through their Dubai bank accounts. Therefore, they cannot say or do anything about it. So, dear Ethiopians, we do not own our country. And now, it is not only the UAE that is interfering in Ethiopia's internal politics; Israel is also interfering, with the aim of making Ethiopians kill one another. @KSAmofaEN @EgyptForeignMin @MfaEgypt @aftaburhan @SudanTribune_EN @US_SrAdvisorAF @StateDept @EUSR_Weber @eu_eeas @mfa_russia @M_Farmaajo @CrisisGroup @BBCAfrica @AfricaProg @cgtnafrica @ReutersAfrica @BBCWorld @sputnik_africa @AJEnglish