Some times it is necessary to sift, through rational observation, to separate, so to speak, the wheat from the chaff. I have raised here on this site a number of times the nature of the Saudi regime and the nature of its relation with the Abyssinian dictators. Though extremely brutal, there is nothing new in its inexcusable recent treatment of foreigners. No doubt that the protests against its violence are timely and legitimate. Yet the Amhara chauvinist crowds on the streets of western cities have used the occasion to stage a theatrical tour de force not only to mobilize their supporters at home and abroad in the defence of their old myths concerning their empire, but also to blackmail others, especially, Oromos, into accepting their caveat.
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