How Israel's recognition of Somaliland feeds into Trump's anti-Somali MAGA fervor
Republican Party hawks currently attacking Somalis in the U.S. have themselves advocated for Somaliland
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Republican Party hawks currently attacking Somalis in the U.S. have themselves advocated for Somaliland
![Somalis hold a photo of Netanyahu at a demonstration in Mogadishu on Sunday, reading "No to partition, no to normalization," after Israel became the first country to formally recognize the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.](https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000019b-6a83-d1d0-a9bf-eec3ed600000/6e/71/ff77e70f485eb3b40027ee11ce61/230152-2.jpg?precrop=1299,1529,x165,y0&width=620&height=729&cmsprod "Somalis hold a photo of Netanyahu at a demonstration in Mogadishu on Sunday, reading "No to partition, no to normalization," after Israel became the first country to formally recognize the self-declared Republic of Somaliland. Credit: Feisal Omar/ Reuters")
Somalis hold a photo of Netanyahu at a demonstration in Mogadishu on Sunday, reading "No to partition, no to normalization," after Israel became the first country to formally recognize the self-declared Republic of Somaliland. Credit: Feisal Omar/ Reuters
07:26 PM • December 31 2025 IST
WASHINGTON - For all the supposed pomp and circumstance surrounding Israel's landmark recognition of the Somalia breakaway region of Somaliland, the story was not even the biggest Somalia-related news among the Republican Party over the holiday.
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