Passover in Bulawayo |
Israel recognized Somaliland. The Matabele nation is next. The Exodus demands it.
On December 26, 2025, Israel became the first United Nations member state to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as a sovereign and independent nation. Prime Minister Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Sa’ar, and Somaliland President Abdullahi signed a joint declaration of mutual recognition. Sa’ar then flew to Hargeisa — the first senior Israeli official ever to do so — and declared that nobody would determine for Israel whom it recognizes. Somaliland pledged to join the Abraham Accords.
Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa, formally urged President Trump to follow. Trump, when asked directly, responded: “We’re working on that one. Somaliland.” The trajectory is set. American recognition is a matter of timing, not principle.
The Mthwakazi Republic Party — the principal political movement of the Matabele nation — issued a formal statement supporting both Somaliland and Israel. That statement was not symbolic. It was doctrinal. The MRP recognized what the international community refuses to admit: when the rules are applied consistently, sovereignty follows identity, and identity that survives attempted destruction is not negotiable.
This week, Jews around the world sit at the Seder table and recount the oldest sovereignty narrative in recorded history. A people enslaved. Identity suppressed. Language and religious practice targeted for elimination. A regime that had already murdered their children and concluded that their continued existence posed a demographic threat. And a liberation that did not ask permission — because permission was never going to come from Pharaoh.
The Haggadah does not record a negotiation. It records a departure. The Exodus is not a metaphor. It is the foundational legal precedent for the principle that no people should remain subject to a regime that has already tried to destroy them.
That principle built Israel. Israel exists because the Jewish people, after two thousand years of exile,........