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Algeria is the dark side that ignites hatred and anti-Semitism.

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Yehuda Lankri, former Israeli ambassador to the UN, in a special column: Against the background of the normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco, mediated by the United States, another and less optimistic side was revealed: Algeria, where the media try to attack the historic move, but mainly harm their divided country .

It is time for Algeria to get out of its troubled position

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• Yehuda Lankri

Yehuda Lankri, in collaboration with Shuva Israel

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 09:29

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Reached agreements with Israel.

King of Morocco, Muhammad VI (Photo: AP)

The normalization agreement between Morocco and Israel, along with American recognition of the Moroccan Sahara under the auspices of former US President Donald Trump, landed a severe political blow on Algeria, the main supporter - militarily, economically and diplomatically - of the trade guerrilla movement, the Polisario.

It is a movement that is dwindling and losing many chunks of the international backing it had in its infancy.

Algeria, which undermines Moroccan sovereignty in Western Sahara through the terrorist Polisario movement, aspirations to create an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean and control minerals and natural resources, through the territorial enclave held by the Polisario.

Thanks to an intense and fruitful diplomatic campaign, led by King Muhammad VI, many African countries as well as Latin America recognized the Moroccanness of Western Sahara and even opened consulates and commercial missions there.

American recognition has been a highlight in itself, as it is the world's largest power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council with a veto, which has exacerbated Algeria's frustration to the point of losing its temper.

Since the resumption of relations between Morocco and Israel, Significance for strengthening stability and peace in the Middle East, including in advancing the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the Algerian media attack the Moroccan kingdom, and in the same breath its partner in expanding peace and coexistence between Arabs and Jews - the State of Israel.

The situation in Algeria is not quiet.

President 'Abd al-Majid Tabon (Photo: Reuters)

Morocco stood at the starting point of the primordial peace between Egypt and Israel and gave it its full support, led by the late King Hassan II, a man of vision and action, and continues to instill, under the bold and inexhaustible leadership of King Muhammad VI, its founding values ​​for coexistence, reconciliation.

The Moroccan constitution of 2011 is a work of thought combining a variety of nations, identities and cultures into a single identity - the Moroccan - that merges, in one subordination, between the Muslim, the Arab, the barbarian and the Jewish.

It is a reality of a rare, conciliatory, moderating and unifying balance that few nations have been able to create like it.

In this sense, Algeria stands at the radical opposite pole.

It is a divided society, bleeding from many years of particularly brutal civil war, led by the Shatnaz regime of a military cult and a civilian government at its mercy.

In a structured way, Algeria cannot rise to the size of the hour and join the reconciliation and peace camp.

Unfortunately, inherently, she blames the Moroccan kingdom and even calls it "Zionist."

Under the Zionist nickname, given in a contemptuous tone to Israel, hides the racist tone against the Jews wherever they are - of Algerian leaders leading public opinion in the propaganda trumpets of their country.

In doing so they cultivate anti-Semitism not only among the Algerian people but also among peoples in the region;

They also ignite hatred of Jews among European countries, where there are Jewish and Muslim communities.

In France, for example, Jews in Toulouse and Paris, among others, were murdered in the name of the same hatred.

This is the murky face of the Algerian media attack on Morocco and the Jews and Israel, which ranks Algeria very low on the ladder of affinity for peace, reconciliation and coexistence.

Algeria's ability to overcome its ills - goes through its necessary reconciliation with Morocco and the adoption of the Moroccan coexistence model, which may serve as a roadmap for its initiation and shaping its way and identity, emerging from the long and alienating colonial tunnel, from the devastating civil war, to the dictatorial peace dictatorship , Right inside it, and far in the area, to achieve its complete healing

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