By Hassan Alaoui
Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, chaired a working meeting on Friday, November 8 in Rabat with members of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the House of Representatives devoted to the latest developments in the Sahara affair in light of the speech that His Majesty the King delivered on Tuesday, November 5 on the same subject. In the royal wake, the minister warned the Algerian government against the campaign of hostility that it is increasingly waging against our country and the threats of war that it is deploying in this direction. The Algerian press, almost entirely, is obviously following suit, not to say even anticipating the hypothesis of an imminent conflict.
What should we expect in this chiaroscuro and Chinese shadow play?
It was necessary for King Mohammed VI to use a different language, both in tone and style, or as we say, in substance and form, for the Algerian leaders to suddenly shake up . Indeed, last November 5, on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the March and as is usual, the Sovereign gave a speech, this time devoted from start to finish to the Sahara. It is indeed characterized by great firmness – to say the least – and with solemnity, it reaffirms the irreversible desire of the Kingdom of Morocco not to give in to any blackmail, as it also strongly rejects the famous Manichaeism of those who claim to defend the cause of the so-called “Sahrawi people” and the categorical refusal to respect the census of the populations sequestered in the Tindouf-Lahmada camps demanded by the United Nations for ages.
Accustomed to obeying the orders of the military junta, the Algerian press is fuming. She remains disoriented and immersed in her surly professional amateurism. She denounces what she describes as “ new tone among the King of Morocco “. She even sees a certain threat in it and, not without irony sometimes, after having put the four or five “outstretched hands of the King” on trial, finally realizes that the latter is also capable of changing gear. However, Mohammed VI has never been so conciliatory or changed course on the imperative of dialogue and peace… It remains that the change of tone which remains marked in the last speech, is also addressed to all those who take the cordiality, let’s say the kindness of the King of Morocco for a weakness, who denigrates us and never ceases to make us take bladders for lanterns.
An Algerian state running out of breath
The Green March speech on November 5 commemorates the 49th anniversary of the Green March, but also half a century of Algerian hostility. And an irascible determination of the military’s power to destroy Morocco, to prevent it from completing its territorial integrity and its national unity. The Algerian military state is out of breath, exhausted but stubborn in the face of the deep discontent of its people who see their wealth – oil and gas – disappear in staggering arms purchases, the obvious failures of its diplomacy, its endless about-face, its inconsistencies in the choice of alliances, the headlong rush of a regime which, and the charade of the last elections once again demonstrated to us, has become a model inspired straight from Korea of the north than a rudimentary democracy ” at least » , and then this expansionist abomination which is to its mark what disproportionate ambition is to a dictatorship in decline.
Military Algeria is a model of political and diplomatic indigence! For half a century, we have said, it has been in a headlong rush, correlative or consequence of its inability to properly meet the challenges of economic and social development of a country, although endowed with inestimable hydraulic resources. The military junta thus constantly cultivates false propaganda, makes the Kingdom of Morocco the scapegoat for its repeated failures, and feeds its people with a hatred that has become a hatchet whose terrible consequences in the long term are unknown.
Is a conflict possible and under what conditions?
The old postulate of Carl von Clausewitz, a German theorist of war in the 19th century, is now more than convincingly relevant: “ War is the continuation of politics by other means » ! He will never have illustrated Algerian political news like this at this moment. I doubt that the Algerian leaders have read it or even heard of him. Here it is brought up to date, this postulate. The Moroccan-Algerian dispute is really very heavy, multidimensional, with variable geometry, like those wars which, in the European Middle Ages, opposed its nations, these hundred year wars opposing France to England or more close to us, the Iraqi-Iranian conflict! Where there is a territorial, geographical and geopolitical dimension, there are obviously war tropisms brewing. There are now nearly forty open, latent and potential conflicts that threaten world peace, at the regional and intercontinental level.
Morocco-Algeria: impossible peace, probable war
Here I take the title of a major text by Raymond Aron, published in 1980 “ The last years of the century “. It always illustrates the paradoxical context in which we live with an Algeria which will not stop destroying us. Didn’t the late Hassan II complain about this curse suffered by Morocco of cohabiting with a neighbor who has neither faith nor law, a rogue state in short, impoverishing its people, ruining them with the sole objective of imposing to the region when it is not to the whole world its shoddy hegemonism? Did he not announce to General de Gaulle on the eve of his independence in 1962, in a phrase that became famous that “ Algeria would become the cancer of Africa » ?
In a strange exchange that occurred in December 1975, Henry Kissinger, then American Secretary of State under Gerald Ford, retorted to Abdelaziz Bouteflika, then truculent Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, haunted, devoured by the theme of the self-determination of “ Saharawi people » : « I don’t understand what self-determination means for the Sahara. However, I can understand what it means for the Palestinians.…”! This scathing response is therefore the political framework of American diplomacy, it comes at the right time today, as if to stupefy the delusions of the Algerian power which intends to make us take bladders for lanterns in this fabulous and Machiavellian hypocrisy of wanting everything price establish a link between the Sahara and Palestine.
Like a Pandora’s box, ready to explode on our faces, the persistent tension between Morocco and Algeria keeps our two countries and our respective peoples in suspense. Some even go so far as to invoke the specter of an armed conflict, playing on sensitivities and emotions. As if a war, the ” guerre » was going to reduce tension or resolve this damned Moroccan-Algerian dispute, which is very stubborn and obsessive among our neighbors. As people keep saying, it is very easy to start a war, but more difficult to stop it, particularly when it is fueled by hatred and the irascible blindness that characterizes the Algerian military junta.
The couple of a diabolical adventure
Saïd Chengriha and Abdelmajid Tebboune are the same age, 79 years old, only a few months separate them. Two old men who hold the reins of a country where the average age is at best 27 years old, a youth with a more than young and promising profile. However, this population at the flower of age and maturity is in no way concerned by the Machiavellian plans of a military power which has confiscated everything from it, marginalizes it, excludes it and even perfidiously stupidizes it with its logorrhea. and his slogans. The Algerian youth quickly acted, unwilling, willing to remain attached to her country, but she is more and more tempted to raise her veils and leave it, with a heavy heart, because the power leaves her little choice. Victim of exacerbated unemployment, persecuted, sometimes repressed, she is above all devoid of ideal, the very one for which the first generations of seventy years ago had fought in the name of the Revolution that the leaders and the military confiscated it.
A couple of two bedridden people therefore lead an Algeria made up of young people without horizons, tempted by the open sea, their eyes fixed on the Mediterranean and Europe, which has become the incandescent mirage, for all the other young people of the Maghreb and Africa. Undoubtedly, such a phenomenon is not specific to Algeria, but it is a scathing response to the proud vanity of its leaders who never cease to maintain a bellicose discourse, of this strange and paradoxical collapse called ” I’m sorry » and derisory logomachia. A country in crisis, Algeria? It is an understatement to say that he is thrown out to pasture by a regime whose only virtue is to fool its people with lies and frustrations. Among them, at the top if we can say so, is this demand for permanent democratic renewal and an end to the obsolete dictatorship exercised by the army since 1962.
It is also the interminable disastrous requiem that basing one’s diplomacy, one’s philosophy of life – and even survival – on how to destroy the Kingdom of Morocco! For more than fifty years, the Algerian regime has cynically, militarily, diplomatically, mediocrely tackled this ignominious and shameful task, playing on all registers, maintaining its existence on the back of a myth: that of a false power. , North African, African, Arab, continental! With a supplement of radical cynicism to boot, believing that they are decimating everything that Morocco has built. Morocco created, at the very least presided over the creation of the united Arab Maghreb on February 17, 1989 in Marrakech – the walls of the Wilaya of this city still bear witness to this – and now Tebboune, all his rampant mediocrity leads him to want isolate our country from this project which, in any case, is ruined by itself and has turned into a sausage. He allied himself with a small, shoddy dictator, an albino by nature who quickly swallowed up what still remained of the democratic heritage in Tunisia, both engaging in the same paranoid exercise of conspiracy and treachery.
So can we imagine a Maghreb without Morocco, the founding country? What is the name of this turpitude? Would Tebboune, who has never taken part in any fight or struggle for his country, set himself up as a hero to reinvent regional diplomacy, the dealer of new cards and the messiah of the well-being of peoples, with petro-dollars helping? To Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine, as well as to Kais-Essaid of Tunisia, he offered 100 million dollars, believing he was buying their good conscience; THE ” recovering » as they say, trying to instill in them the same hatred that he has against Morocco.
As they say: all that, for that? However, Saïd Chengriha, who makes and unmakes politics in Algeria, has not finished swallowing the snakes by convincing himself every day that the war he wants and is preparing to launch with bad grace against Morocco – if indeed we have reached this criminal hypothesis – will announce the Apocalypse of his country first and of the people of the region then… Everything is possible from now on, Chengriha, general of his colorful state has only dreamed of revenge since that he was taken prisoner by the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR) during the battle of Amgalla in February 1976 and released by King Hassan II. Tebboune, a caricature that emerged after the elimination of General Gaïd Salah in 2019, cultivates such a depressive resentment against Morocco and its successes that he becomes bitter at the simple pronunciation of his name!
It’s very easy to start a war… as for stopping it, that’s another story! It is the people who lose the war, not its sponsors…
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