The announcement of the normalization, Thursday evening, by Morocco of its relations with Israel, in return for Washington’s recognition of Rabat’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, plunged Algeria into a kind of deep astonishment. No official comment or reaction was issued. Algeria press service, the official news agency, has been content since yesterday evening to report the statements of Saharawi officials, in particular those of the representative of the Polisario Front in Washington, Mouloud Said, who “regretted the decision of the outgoing American president Donald Trump to recognize the alleged Moroccanness of Western Sahara, stressing that such an approach will change neither the nature nor the status of the occupied territories ”. Algerian government websites remain silent, as private television stations have lashed out against the neighbor to the west. “In the absence of the president [hospitalisé en Allemagne depuis fin octobre], we strongly doubt that Algiers will react promptly, ”believes an Algerian columnist.
Anger on social media
But it is on the side of social networks that we are seeing reactions. From Trump’s surprise Twitter announcement, an avalanche of posts and tweets was unleashed, unanimously condemning the Moroccan decision. “The price of the Arabs to sell Palestine: F-35 planes, being taken off the terrorist list, the land that does not belong to you [le Sahara occidental]… Each has its price ”, writes journalist Réda Chennouf. “The price of betrayal. Morocco is normalizing with Israel. Father’s green walk [Hassan II] was villainous, that of the unworthy son, ”comments writer Wassyla Tamzali.
“While waiting for the next normalization with Saudi Arabia … I wonder what will be the counterpart”, underlines Nabil, student, while the writer Bachir Mefti prefers to quote the Moroccan revolutionary Abdelkrim el-Khattabi: “The victory of colonialism, even on the edge of the world, is a defeat for us; and the victory of freedom, anywhere in the world, is a victory for us. “We have always supported the Palestinians and the Sahrawis, but we had the means of our policy, we no longer have them, clearly! And no ! We cannot live on great causes, war and fresh water. Some call it pragmatism, others cowardice, I would say it is resignation, ”laments Sabra Sahali, while Lachemot Amar wonders whether the Algerian MSP (Muslim Brotherhood tendencies) will react by report to his Islamist “friends” in the government in Morocco.
Strengthen the “internal front”
Still on Facebook, political scientist Abed Charef looks back on the latest editorial in the Algerian army review, The Djeïch : “By recognizing the sovereignty of Morocco over Western Sahara, the counterpart of the Moroccan decision, the United States will dangerously contribute to reviving tension in the region. »This gives all its meaning to the journal’s editorial The Djeïch, who wrote this week: “Algerians must be ready to face the threat that put certain enemy parties on the security of the region. The military review, spokesperson for the National People’s Army, also called for “strengthening the internal front” to “thwart all enemy plots and tendentious media campaigns”.
For the former minister and ex-diplomat Abdelaziz Rahabi, “Algeria is surrounded, it is a reality. There are armed conflicts at our borders, there is a direct military involvement of foreign powers ”. “Reinforce the famous front interne ! This is exactly the mantra of the political system here which no longer has a project to offer to Algerians “, comments the Algerian editorialist, who supports” the convergence of the two red lines in the mentality of the system, but also in the public opinion: we do not touch the Palestinian cause or the Polisario ”. This weekend, the participation of an Algerian football player playing for OGC Nice, Hicham Bouadoui, in a match in Israel against the Beer-Shev’a team triggered a vast campaign of denunciation. The anti-Israel fiber remains very sensitive in Algeria.
The policy of the state of affairs
“Morocco is taking advantage of Algerian aphasia to advance its pawns. We saw it when Rabat launched the military operation [mi-novembre] to unblock the passage of Guerguerat ”, recalls an observer of the regional scene. Algiers, historic support of the Polisario Front, and which welcomes Sahrawi refugees on its territory, found itself forced to issue appeals for calm and respect for international law while “Rabat imposed the state of affairs, pushing the Polisario in its last entrenchments ”. “The only option possible today for Algeria is to to work his Mauritanian ally so that he also does not slip into the frenzy of normalization with Israel, ”conjectures a former diplomat.
“Israel has therefore definitively established itself in the Maghreb and nothing says that Mauritania will not follow suit in Morocco in the weeks and months to come. The Zionist entity is already present at our southern borders, through the establishment of three companies specializing in aeronautics and telecommunications, two areas which directly threaten the security of Algeria ”, worries the site Algeria Patriotic.
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