Kiosk360. Without legitimacy at home and without the slightest influence abroad, the Algerian politico-military regime attempted to diplomatically exploit the military parade for the 60th anniversary of the country’s independence. Checkmate, explains the daily Al Akhbar in an editorial from which this press review is taken.
When you don’t know how to swim, you don’t dive into the water to rescue a drowned person, otherwise it’s two drowned people sinking straight down. It is this popular adage used by the daily Al Akhbar, in the editorial of its edition of Friday July 8, to minimize the presence of the Palestinian and Tunisian presidents side by side with the leader of the Polisario, during the military parade organized in Algiers, on Tuesday July 5, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the independence of Algeria, in which Morocco played a decisive role. All these beautiful people, added to the Said Chengriha-Abdelmadjid Tebboune duo, are currently in bad shape.
In reality, the unnatural presence of these guests of the Algerian regime with the leader of the separatists was only made possible thanks to the folkloric and unhealthy maneuvers of the Algerian junta, which is thus trying to create cracks in the solid bloc of friends from Morocco.
Thus Mahmoud Abbas (Palestine), Kaïs Saïed (Tunisia), Dennis Sassou Nguesso (Congo Brazzaville) or Mohamed Bazoum (Niger) can give the impression that by sitting in a gallery where Benbatouche sits, they are turning their backs on the Morocco, or came, for some, attracted by the smell of petrodollars.
Everyone knows, especially in the case of Palestine, that no one can balance all the sacrifices made by Morocco for the Palestinians and their capital Al Quds, and the self-interested crumbs that Algeria throws from time to time to certain factions Palestinians.
In fact, consider Al Akhbar, it is clear that the Algerian regime is seeking, through these noisy gestures, to try to pick up the pieces of a diplomacy that has been rendered totally ineffective in recent times, under the successive and well-adjusted blows that Morocco has dealt it. The territorial integrity of the kingdom is now supported by almost all Arab countries, UN resolutions and several major Western powers, which has led to the international and regional isolation of the Algerian regime.
By thus exploiting last Tuesday’s military parade, certain images of which were widely and falsely glorified by local propaganda, the Algerian regime tried in vain to extricate itself from diplomatic asphyxiation by wanting to surf on the Palestinian cause, which it actually served, by comparing it to the separatism of the Polisario.
It remains to be wondered what was the degree of inevitable embarrassment of the guests from Algiers, especially Kaïs Saïed and Mahmoud Abbas, in finding themselves, in spite of themselves, face to face with an unwanted Brahim Ghali wherever he goes, even in Rabouni and other Sahrawi camps in Lahmada.