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At the origin of the problem between Algeria and Morocco. Why Algeria and Morocco cannot live together?

Since 1975 (the year of Moroccan colonization of Western Sahara), Morocco has spent billions of dollars on lobbying, public relations and bribing foreign politicians to spread its lies about Western Sahara. Morocco's objective has always been to give the colonization of Western Sahara a regional character: to deny the existence of the Sahrawi people and to make the international community believe that Algeria has expansionist designs on Western Sahara, and that the conflict there is a regional conflict between Algeria and Morocco. So much so that the Moroccan media systematically associate the problems between Algeria and Morocco with the Western Sahara issue, as if there were no problems between Morocco and Algeria before 1975?

The reality is quite different, the only problem between Algeria and Morocco is its policy in the region. This expansionist policy has its origins in the concept of Greater Morocco, developed by the laboratories of the SDEC (French secret service - former name of the DGSE) between 1950 and 1960. The aim was for France to poison relations between the states of North Africa, in order to make any regional integration impossible, and consequently to establish French domination in the region. The agent of the SDEC who was in charge of implementing this Machiavellian plan was Horma Ould Babana, an executive of the Istiqlal party and former deputy of Mauritania, who declared that the southern limit of Morocco was in Saint-Louis, Senegal, and that the present Morocco represented only one fifth of what would be the great Morocco.

In this article, we will not address the historical relevance of this concept of Greater Morocco. However, we can say with certainty that it is factually inaccurate to associate the Almoravid empire with present-day Morocco, because this empire originated in the Western Sahara (Sanhadjas tribe of Algerian origin). It is the same for the Almohad empire which is a Zenet empire (Algerian tribe).

Morocco, which complains about the closure of the borders and the tension that reigns between the Moroccan and Algerian peoples, would do better to question itself. It is the only one responsible for this situation. Indeed, when one builds one's national novel on an expansionist myth, and adapts school textbooks accordingly. It is quite normal to create generations of Moroccans who believe that Algeria occupies Moroccan territories.  This belief generates a hatred that we unfortunately see every day in social networks.

In conclusion, as long as Morocco continues to spread these messages of hatred, the tension will continue to grow and increase.

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