I would say something about irredentism, because u can not reduce what Israel has done post 1967 to other acts of irredentism in post-colonial countries (even though there are plenty of examples!)

Somali nationalism is irredentist, it's been a long term aim and goal of many nationalist during the colonial period and afterwards

but the context here is diff, the imposition of borders by European powers and (Ethiopian Monarchy!) across the territories inhabited for centuries by Somalis

here's is the distribution of Somali languages in horn of africa (will talk about why I say it in plural later on)

the border did not exist before and for the nomadic communities that lived in both sides it didn't make sense

case in point both sides of my family regularly used the pastures from 'Ethiopian' side, while I have family on both sides of the Kenyan border, borders as in many African countries were a colonial imposition

this was even recognised by the colonial regimes, the Brits with the Ethiopians to make arrangements to allow nomads to travel across the border, but it was lightly policed and never enforced ppl lived like they always lived

my grandma for example who was born in the 50s! never saw a police officer untill her early 20s - as a kid she never thought she was legally trespassing into another country when she took her flock to the pastures of the haud (that top right hand corner)

but anyway - so ofc nationalist thought it was flabbergasting and ridiculous to have these regions seperated, so set up organisations to unite all the regions

hence why Somali flag has five pointed star, one point for each region inhabited by Somalis (NFD, Somali Region in Ethiopia, French, British and Italian Somaliland's)

they only ever managed to unite the British and Italian ruled parts, a referendum in NFD, Kenya was cancelled and a rebellion curved by violence, same story in French colony, it got independent seperately decades after in 70s as Djibouti

but anyway politics in the country in post-independent period was completely obsessed with how best to unite the rest of regions

ultimately led to war between Ethiopia and Somalia in the 70s, ofc it happened in shady circumstances (egged on by the Americans, the Gulf Arab states) but the impetus came from domestic politics in both regions

anyway my point is that era is completely over! because one of the problems with Somalia nationalism was it's obsessive focus on homogeneity which didn't exist at all as we all can see now

remember when I said languages rather than language, Somali has as many three different languages and sometimes even more depends on how u count it ofc, but for nationalists this was all just different dialects

like af-maay and af-maxaa are pretty much as different as Dutch is from German , I can't understand it fr

hence why the parties of the minority ethnic groups were more critical of this obsession, more open to federal forms of governance and less stress on homogeneity

ultimately they lost in favour of the nationalist liberals and then socialists, not surprising most of the violence of civil war happened in the south of the country

and the civil war has been horrible for minorities - who are anything but minorities in their regions

u can argue Somalis politics as defined in the public sphere is ppl from the blue regions fighting between each other and oppressing ppl in green and purple and red lol

ofc I wrote something on this https://lmartods.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/applying-cleavage-theory-to-somali-politics-part-one/

I mean not to fetishize clans but they're also a lived reality for ppl