From: Berhane Tseggai (berhanetseggai@yahoo.ca)
Date: Fri Aug 28 2009 - 14:10:54 EDT
Selam Seb Dehai:
Last night I was browsing a popular Ethiopian Pal Talk room when one regular commentator was making a passing remark on the recent article written by Jendayi Fraser in the Wall Street Journal. He concluded that as a member of the discredited Bush Administration and as Under Secretary of State for African Affairs the role she played in the Horn region , she won't find life after Foggy Bottom easy. In short, the commentator totally dismissed her as a non-entity and that she is in some sort of hardship.
The same day, Mike Sium had posted a provocative and revealing news-story where a certain Yigal Palmor--a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry--introduces a new Eritrea bashing term " a hardship country".
"It’s always difficult to find people for hardship countries and Eritrea is a hardship country, believe me. When you wake up every morning and you don't know if you'll have electricity or water, that's a hardship country."
Actually, Yigal emphasizes,"believe me",that Eritrea is a hardship country. If the embassy is not projected to be stationed, say in a remote village or an island around Dahlak, we all know that Asmara can provide the necessary amenities for any prospective Israeli ambassador and staff. So what Yigal meant by hardship is open to speculation and it is not the right moment to do so except to point out, among other things, that the Hergigo Power plant which was destroyed by the mercenary Woyane army has long been repaired and the supply of electricity is much better than what Addis residents are experiencing.
On the other hand, Shlomo Aronson, professor of politics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at least gives some reasons which make some sense." the absence may be due to a lack of qualified personnel, not a
lack of diplomats interested in serving in Eritrea " And he further suggests for alternative pool of candidates: "If there is no suitable or available candidate for the position, as is the case with Eritrea, the position can be opened to all Israeli civil servants from various ministries"
Believe me--to use Yigal's phrase, can't the Israeli Foreign ministry extend the alternative given so as to look other affiliated ex-civil servants or diplomats who have experience in the Horn of Africa? Now, what comes to mind is, from the perspective of the Yigals, would there be any one available someone to serve " a hardship country" who himself/herself is experiencing hardship?
Jendayi's name pops up at first sight. Not only as an appointed official of the State Department, but also as an ex-diplomat now experiencing hardship, Jendayi Fraser is still serving as a "diplomatic hit-lady" for the masters of the Woyanes. Considering the given assumption, it is obvious that she cannot fill in the now vacant position of an Israeli ambassador to Eritrea. However, she could have been be a great "temporary" Israeli ambassador to a real hardship client state like Woyanes' Ethiopia.
"But Israeli diplomats seem to have found one exception to the rule: Eritrea." Indeed, it is a "hardship country" to those who would have liked Eritrea to be another state at the mercy of predators.
Awet nHafash!
HawKum,
Haileab, Toronto.
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