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Abdelilah Benkirane delivers a message from King Mohamed VI to the Algerians following the acute economic crisis in Morocco

In a desperate attempt to soften Algerian public opinion, Benkirane chose social networks to address Algerians. He used religious “arguments” to call for reconciliation and union between Morocco and Algeria, in order to face together the geostrategic challenges facing our region, particularly since Russia's war against NATO in Ukraine.


Benkirane's message was neither sincere nor serious, since it never referred to the real causes of the crisis between Algeria and Morocco. As usual, Morocco posed as the victim of an Algerian regime that was “immature” and had an unjustified hatred of Morocco. Benkirane has also repeatedly disrespected the Algerian people, portraying them as eternally vassals of foreign powers (France and Turkey), in contrast to Morocco's age-old empire.

As long as Morocco continues with this unjustified arrogance and lack of respect towards Algeria and its people, there will be no prospect of reconciliation on the horizon, because the prerequisite for any reconciliation is RESPECT and above all recognition of the wrongs done to the other party.

The message from the former Moroccan Prime Minister is, in reality, just another political maneuver aimed at a section of the Algerian political class (notably Islamist parties such as HMS), sensitive to religious messages advocating reconciliation between “Muslims”. 

Benkirane has been asked to convey a message of détente and appeasement to Algeria, in order to persuade the Algerians not to terminate the interconnection contract, which risks paralyzing the Moroccan electricity grid. 

It's a safe bet that Benkirane will be given a new orientation by his principals, as his message, which was supposed to be a message of appeasement, was very clumsy towards the Algerian people, insofar as it conveyed several signs of arrogance and lack of respect. In fact, in his message, Benkirane called Algerian politicians “children”: Benkirane considered that the handling of the RC Berkane shirt crisis was more childish than anything else, and that the Algerian authorities should not have reacted so vehemently.

Morocco should understand once and for all that Algeria has reached a point of no return with it. There can be no reconciliation with this medieval regime, which has indoctrinated its people to hate Algeria. For its part, Algeria will continue to work without worrying about Morocco and its acolytes. Our country will not come to the aid of an enemy that plots day and night against our strategic interests.




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