After all the authors of this flawed article talked about the obvious, like - how Ethiopia has been getting free ride in its documented intransigence against the rule of law and somewhat faint heartedly alluded to the fact that Eritrea has been on the short end of the stick in the eyes of the so called international community. Wow, such an earth shuttering discovery, especially after even the Ken Menkhaus, John Boltons and the David Shinns (not exactly friends of Eritrea) have unequivocally affirmed what we Eritreans long suspected.

The problem I have with professors Yohannes Woldemariam and Okbazghi Yohannes, the authors of the subject article, is that they seem to be talking with both sides of their mouth all at the same time. That is some fit that I can neither do nor even contemplate.

I am not going to bother quoting the unquotable conjectures for the readers can read it for themselves. But I am at a loss to try to make some sense about the buffoonery of what they termed the “buffoonery” of President Isaias. No matter what real or perceived adjustment may be needed in the Eritrean Government’s handling of certain things, how can they equate President Isaias with ex President Idi Amin of Uganda? Are they out of their minds? Do they have some ulterior motive above and beyond expressing some concern of the misguided Horn policy the US Administration has been following?

They also accuse President Isaias of being “guilty of violating the provisions of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission decision, because he blocked the movement of U.N. observers and has deployed regular troops to the temporary security zone”. I don’t know what part of Eritrea these guys don’t understand, but Eritreans of all walks of life are sick and tired of the existing stalemate of “No war, no peace” situation that any sane minded Eritrean is bound to challenge it when our people are being subjected to untold suffering because of what the good professors term violating the “Provisions” of perpetual servitude. For their information, our good doctors, there can’t be any Temporary Security Zone indefinitely, which I assume they are unbelievably talking about the area where Eritrea has placed some troops. Once the international verdict has been handed down, the area that our troops are in is indeed sovereign Eritrean territory which is not subject to negotiations.

Moreover, they shamelessly accuse our president “has refused to talk, insisting on implementation of the decision”. Loll is that a crime if the honorable president wants to uphold the rule of law? I would have expected that, people of their caliber would be upset if the president had succumbed to the various pressures that must be exerted on him to give Meles some face saving mechanisms. What is there to “Talk” about when the Weyane regime is demanding a “Dialogue” on a deal that is legally sealed? I am not a lawyer, but it sounds reasonable to me to implement an internationally renowned jurists verdict - and “Final and binding” at that - with out further ado.

To place an exclamation mark to their tempo, they stated that Eritrea is “ruled by a regime of brigands, political hoodlums and a handful sycophant intellectuals, presided over by Africa’s reincarnated Idi Amin”. Wow, that is a tall order of a statement that not even the Weyane gangs and Dr. Frazer can outdo. The people that has spent many years in the rough terrains of Sahel with little to eat and drink to help realize the independence of Eritrea that all of us cherish; the people who continue to sacrifice their personal agendas for the good of the country when many of them could have walked away from it all and choose to live in foreign countries like some of us do; these people, these very people who are making most of us proud of being Eritrean deserve better than some uncalled for denigration of their character. But, I guess, one should not be surprised when some Eritreans love to sing the “Demonize Eritrea” song until the cows come home just to find out that no amount of ‘Demonization’ will distract the Eritrean leadership from the noble endeavor it is engaging in to improve the lot of our long suffering people.

My beloved Eritreans, it is time for all of us to support our people and government now more than ever. Certainly it is not time for nitpicking something that can be dealt with after safeguarding our independence, national sovereignty and Eritrean territorial integrity.

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