“Makhzen regime’s propensity for treason against Algeria is deeply-rooted in history,” affirms Ahmed Kateb
By: Hana Saada
ALGIERS- “The propensity of the Moroccan monarchy for treason against Algeria is deeply-rooted in history, “affirmed the university lecturer, Ahmed Kateb.
In a declaration to Dzair Tube TV, the Academic noted that the defeat of Emir Abdelkader was “not due to the prowess of the French arms”, but to the betrayal of which he was the victim on the part of the Moroccan sultan, Moulay Abderrahmane who joined the forces with the French enemy to encircle him.
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This statement is also evidenced in an article published, on February 25, 1873, by the New York Times newspaper which stated: “The ultimate defeat of Emir Abdelkader was not due to the prowess of the French arms, but to his traitorous ally, the Emperor of Morocco, who, after inducing many of Abdelkader’ supporters to desert him, finally drove him out by force”.
In a letter addressed to the Egyptian ulemas of El Azhar, Emir Abdelkader, noteworthy, deplored the servility and fickleness of the Moroccan monarchy, openly accusing Sultan Moulay Abderrahmane of treason.
“The Moroccan regime betrayed Abdelkrim el-Khattabi, the glorious Algerian revolution as well as the independent Algeria,” further explained the Algerian professor and researcher in international relations.
Historically, it has been proven that the Moroccan kingdom has not ceased its unfriendly, low and hostile maneuvers against Algeria for a day. This animosity, whose systematic, methodical and premeditated nature is documented, beginning with the open war of aggression of 1963, a fratricidal war unleashed by the royal Moroccan armed forces against Algeria, which had just regained its national independence, till the last overruns, led Algeria to immediately close, as from Wednesday, September 23rd, 2021, its airspace to all Moroccan civilian and military aircrafts as well as those with Moroccan registration numbers as well as to formally broke off diplomatic ties with Rabat on 24 August, 2021.
Algeria cited a series of long-standing hostile and malicious acts as well as an accumulation of grievances leading to this decision which culminates a period of growing tension between the North African countries which are mired in a decades-long feud, with their borders closed to each other.
In this vein, Algeria denounced the massive and systematic acts of espionage held by Morocco, which resorted to a Zionist-made Pegasus spyware against Algerian officials and citizens. Furthermore, as stated by the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra, Morocco is supporting a terrorist and separatist group (MAK) and failed in bilateral commitments, including on the Western Sahara issue. The Makhzen normalized diplomatic ties with the Zionist Entity, which came with a quid pro quo of American recognition of Rabat’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, the last colony in the African continent.
Among the reasons for severing diplomatic ties, the Minister highlighted the remarks pronounced, in July 2021, by Moroccan diplomatic representation in New York, after he delivered to the member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement an official memorandum in which Morocco expressly declared its support for the so-called “right to self-determination of the Kabyle people” in Algeria, a serious deviation condemned, categorically, by Algeria, a sovereign and indivisible country, dubbing it as a hostile campaign against it.
Algeria considered this memorandum to be: “A recognition of the multifaceted Moroccan support currently provided to a well-known terrorist group,” referring to the separatist Movement for the Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK), which Algeria designated as a terrorist group, along with the Rachad Movement.
Algeria described the Moroccan diplomatic statement as: “Reckless, irresponsible and manipulative.” It stressed that it is: “Part of a short-sighted, reductive and futile attempt aimed at creating a shameful confusion between the issue of decolonization recognized as such by the international community and what is a mere conspiracy plotted against the unity of the Algerian nation.”
It, also, considered that the Moroccan statement: “Directly contradicts the principles and agreements that structure and inspire Algeria-Morocco relations, in addition to flagrantly contradicting international law and the constitutive law of the African Union.”
Also, among the reasons to sever the Algerian-Moroccan diplomatic ties, were the recent comments by the Zionist Foreign Minister Yair Lapid who was on a historic visit to Morocco as part of their normalization of ties. The Zionist official attacked Algeria from this neighboring country, in blatant violations of good neighboring relations.
In the face of a provocation that is reaching its climax, Algeria has shown self-restraint by publicly demanding clarification from a competent Moroccan authority. The deafening silence of the Moroccan side in this regard, which had persisted, clearly reflected the political support from the highest Moroccan authority.
The hostile actions persisted with the active and documented collaboration of the Kingdom of Morocco with two terrorist organizations known as MAK and RACHAD, whose latest heinous crimes are linked to their premeditated involvement in the lethal wildfires which ravaged several provinces of the country, burning tens of thousands of hectares of forest and killing at least 90 people, including more than 30 soldiers, in addition, to their involvement in the torture and the abject assassination, immolation, and mutilation of the Algerian compatriot Djamel Bensmaïl.
Besides, Morocco’s consul in Oran (western Algeria) made, in 2020, heinous statements against Algeria that are unrelated to diplomatic norms. During his talk with his countrymen in front of the consulate headquarters on the waterfront of Oran (western Algeria), the consul informed, in a video published and shared on social media, Moroccan citizens wishing to return to the homeland, because of the health conditions, that they were “in an enemy country” (Algeria), calling them to be cautious during their presence there.
The Moroccan consul’ statements represented a serious mistake committed by a Moroccan official who admitted to the direct enmity against Algeria when Moroccan nationals gathered in Oran to discuss their concerns to their country’s consulate, before they were surprised by the Moroccan consul who said; “You do not need to gather, you know that we are in an enemy country”!!
For all these reasons, based on the facts, Algeria decided to sever diplomatic relations. Moroccan leaders bear responsibility for the successive crises that have drawn us into a tunnel without an exit.
Despite the severance of ties, the Moroccan regime expanded, once again, its heinous and malicious conspiracy against Algeria, resorting to the help of its “old and new” ally, the Zionist entity, as the “two loathsome lovers” concluded, in January 2023, new agreements related to intelligence, air defense and electronic warfare, targeting the security of Algeria.
