Why Morocco and Israel seek to involve Algeria with Iran

[CEZAYIRLI]

Pourquoi le Maroc et Israël cherchent à impliquer l’Algérie avec l’Iran

Le Maroc et Israël cherchent à impliquer l’Algérie dans un axe avec l’Iran, un pays qui fait l’objet de sanctions de la part des États-Unis, afin de l’isoler sur la scène internationale.

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Why Morocco and Israel seek to involve Algeria with Iran
Politics By: Ryad Hamadi August 28, 2021 at 09:19
(TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH)

Between Algeria and Morocco, it is again extreme tension. On Tuesday August 24, Algeria severed diplomatic relations with its neighbor, following a series of provocations and "hostile acts" by the latter.

The direct reasons for this rupture are now known to all: Morocco's support for a secessionist project in Algeria, large-scale espionage targeting senior state officials and an attempt to train Israel in its disputes with Algeria.

Algeria does not recognize the Hebrew state and has provided unconditional support for the cause of the Palestinian people since independence, but the geographic remoteness and the foundations of its foreign policy meant that it was not considered a threat. for Israel.

On August 12, the Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, nevertheless presented Algeria as such. He did it for the first time and from Moroccan territory.

He told the press that he spoke with his Moroccan hosts about "concerns about the role played by Algeria in the region, its rapprochement with Iran and the campaign it has waged against the admission of Israel in as an observer member of the African Union ”.

Algeria reacted to the announcement of the normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco last November, seeing it as a threat to its security.

"Algeria is targeted (...) When citizens have been told that there are operations abroad aimed at the stability of the country, here is the proof, when we see that we are surrounded by dangers and wars. There is a will to bring the Israeli and Zionist entity back to our borders, "Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad reacted on Saturday 12 December.

Observers saw in the agreement signed two days earlier, Thursday, December 10 under the aegis of former US President Donald Trump, a way for Morocco to garner support for its theses concerning Western Sahara since it provided for also the American recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the occupied territory.

But in view of the developments of the last few weeks, it seems that a new axis has formed in regional geopolitics. An Israeli diplomatic source even said so explicitly the day after the split between the two Maghreb neighbors. "Israel and Morocco are an important part of a pragmatic and positive axis in the region versus an axis which goes in the opposite direction and which includes Iran and Algeria," the source told AFP.

The spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry returned to the charge this Thursday, August 26. He accused Algeria of becoming "since the beginning of the Arab Spring, a passage for terrorist movements instigated by Iran".

A precedent with the Polisario and Hezbollah
There is obviously an insistence on involving Algeria in a problem that does not concern it and to put it in the same box as Iran, seen by the West and the Gulf countries, at their head Saudi Arabia, as a "rogue state", mainly because of its nuclear program and its influence in the Middle East region.

Iran is accused of seeking nuclear weapons, and its Gulf neighbors and Israel are doing everything to prevent it. Iran is subject to severe sanctions from the United States and Western countries, and he is the number one enemy of Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Algeria, which enjoys balanced relations with the major powers, reacted strongly to the Israeli accusations. The Foreign Ministry had spoken of "a suicidal headlong rush" of Morocco, which seeks to drag "its new Middle Eastern ally into a risky adventure directed against Algeria, its values and its positions of principle".

On the news of the break with Morocco, Algeria's Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra denounced the accusations of the two allies as "absurd" and not deserving of an answer.

Algeria refuses to be linked in any way to the Iranian dossier, but it assumes its relations with that country. “No one can tell Algeria what to do. Economic relations with Iran are modest because of the embargo, the political relation is there, we respect Iran and its history, ”Lamamra said on the same occasion.

For the reasons cited above, Israel has no strong reason to designate Algeria as the enemy to be defeated like Iran. Algerian diplomacy has moreover directly pointed the finger at Morocco as being the party which seeks to "drag" Israel into an adventure against Algeria who will be de facto weakened by its banishment by part of the international community.

Especially since the strategy is nothing new for Morocco. If Algerian diplomacy has its fundamentals and dogmas, its Moroccan counterpart also has its constant methods. In May 2018, Morocco tried, unsuccessfully, to discredit the Western Sahara Polisario Front by accusing it of being supported by Iran through Lebanese Hezbollah. By seeking to involve it in an axis with Iran, Morocco and Israel seek above all to demonize and isolate Algeria on the international stage.


Moroccan Soldiers Trained by American GIs, June 2021.

 

[Huelague]

I smell foreign investigation. Be careful.

 

[Knowledgeseeker]

This issue was in 2018. The Moroccan government presented the Iranian Foreign Ministry with documented evidence of specific meetings, dates, names, and other details of collaboration. Hezbollah, Algeria, and Iran all denied involvement in these operations; however, members of Polisario leadership admitted to seeking contact with Hezbollah for possible collaboration.The case of contacts between Hezbollah and Polisario is increasingly strong. Aside from the information presented to Iran by the Moroccan government, there are reportedly photos of a Polisario activist Nana Labbat al-Rasheed posing with Ali Fayyad, member of the Lebanese Parliament and one of the leaders of Hezbollah, as well as accounts by two British papers showing that it was not merely Iranian intelligence running the Hezbollah network through the Algiers embassy to train Polisario, but IRGC, a US-designated terrorist organization. Morocco choose to cut it ties with iran following this incident. This however have nothing to do with morocco/israel vs algeria/hezbollah as this case was in 2018, and was technically morocco getting angry at Iran for their involvment in our region.

 

[CEZAYIRLI]

This issue was in 2018. The Moroccan government presented the Iranian Foreign Ministry with documented evidence of specific meetings, dates, names, and other details of collaboration. Hezbollah, Algeria, and Iran all denied involvement in these operations; however, members of Polisario leadership admitted to seeking contact with Hezbollah for possible collaboration.The case of contacts between Hezbollah and Polisario is increasingly strong. Aside from the information presented to Iran by the Moroccan government, there are reportedly photos of a Polisario activist Nana Labbat al-Rasheed posing with Ali Fayyad, member of the Lebanese Parliament and one of the leaders of Hezbollah, as well as accounts by two British papers showing that it was not merely Iranian intelligence running the Hezbollah network through the Algiers embassy to train Polisario, but IRGC, a US-designated terrorist organization. Morocco choose to cut it ties with iran following this incident. This however have nothing to do with morocco/israel vs algeria/hezbollah as this case was in 2018, and was technically morocco getting angry at Iran for their involvment in our region.

You keep returning to my threads with posts that are not only very biased and lack knowledge, but also show your lack of intellect and very low literacy.

North Africa is a region of Republics : Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Western Sahara and Mauritania. These countries are close to each other and none of them would normalize or be close to the Zionist entity Israel. The presence of Morocco (the protegé of Israel) in North Africa is odd due to the limited relationship Morocco has with its neighbors.

For example, all North African foreign ministers from neighboring countries are gathering on August 31 to discuss the Libyan issue in support of Libya’s upcoming elections, but Morocco is neither invited nor welcome.

Algeria recently cut all its diplomatic ties with this country Morocco, dues to a series of hostile and dangerous actions the Moroccan regime exhibited against its bigger neighbor Algeria. Among which, Morocco attempted to create a civil war within Algeria, financing and arming terrorists against the people and the government of Algeria.

As a results, in addition to cutting diplomatic ties, Algeria will also stop all commercial and economic ties with this country, including the non renewal of energy contracts of oil and gas that were serving Morocco well in growing its economy. For decades Morocco was benefiting from royalties and free Gas from Algerian pipelines crossing Morocco en-route toward Spain, Portugal and the rest of Europe.

Included also are the interruption of commercial flights between the two countries, and the deportation of more than one million Moroccan laborers working in low-level jobs in various Algerian cities.

Morocco has been a hostile enemy for Algeria since its independence in 1962. Algeria's attitude toward this enemy neighbor today is a "lock the door and throw the key away" kind of attitude.

A number of countries, most of them friends of Morocco are trying to reconciliation between the two countries, but take it from someone who knows this dossier very well. Ain't gonna happen.

 

[Knowledgeseeker]

You keep returning to my threads with posts that are not only very biased and lack knowledge, but also show your lack of intellect and very low literacy.

North Africa is a region of Republics : Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Western Sahara and Mauritania. These countries are close to each other and none of them would normalize or be close to the Zionist entity Israel. The presence of Morocco (the protegé of Israel) in North Africa is odd due to the limited relationship Morocco has with its neighbors.

For example, all North African foreign ministers from neighboring countries are gathering on August 31 to discuss the Libyan issue in support of Libya’s upcoming elections, but Morocco is neither invited nor welcome.

Algeria recently cut all its diplomatic ties with this country Morocco, dues to a series of hostile and dangerous actions the Moroccan regime exhibited against its bigger neighbor Algeria. Among which, Morocco attempted to create a civil war within Algeria, financing and arming terrorists against the people and the government of Algeria.

As a results, in addition to cutting diplomatic ties, Algeria will also stop all commercial and economic ties with this country, including the non renewal of energy contracts of oil and gas that were serving Morocco well in growing its economy. For decades Morocco was benefiting from royalties and free Gas from Algerian pipelines crossing Morocco en-route toward Spain, Portugal and the rest of Europe.

Included also are the interruption of commercial flights between the two countries, and the deportation of more than one million Moroccan laborers working in low-level jobs in various Algerian cities.

Morocco has been a hostile enemy for Algeria since its independence in 1962. Algeria's attitude toward this enemy neighbor today is a "lock the door and throw the key away" kind of attitude.

A number of countries, most of them friends of Morocco are trying to reconciliation between the two countries, but take it from someone who knows this dossier very well. Ain't gonna happen.

I realised you are a expert in going around corners and changing the topic. You made a thread about morocco and iran issue, and mixed israel into it. However the iran issue was many years ago while morocco normalised their relation with israel just a couple of months ago. I advice you to seek knowledge, and maybe read from different sources. If you only read from one source then it might be a problem.

 

[CEZAYIRLI]

I realised you are a expert in going around corners and changing the topic. You made a thread about morocco and iran issue, and mixed israel into it. However the iran issue was many years ago while morocco normalised their relation with israel just a couple of months ago. I advice you to seek knowledge, and maybe read from different sources. If you only read from one source then it might be a problem.

Algeria has already cut its diplomatic ties with your hostile country Morocco. I don't understand your desperation at incessantly coming back to my threads with comments that have neither sense nor value. Whoever you are, you are in no position to give advice to an academic who lectures post-graduates. At least out of respect for yourself, stop this harassment.