Zawaya

Dear Gulf people, Morocco is not an orphan.

If Algerian and Moroccan officials do not realize the potential benefits of the border opening for the Arab Maghreb peoples on all levels, the two peoples will have to break the barrier one day, which will come very soon if the two governments do not wake up.

Abdullah Lotfi – Yes, it would have been possible to say with Mr. Adel Rachdi that Morocco by announcing to join the Gulf Cooperation Council, it has destroyed the dream of unity, if his analysis was based on his own perception rather than being based on his frame of references, for which we do not blame him. The dream that he talked about was the making of the late King. if his memory is fresh, the late King Hassan at the time sought through that dream to create a unified Maghreb entity, which if realized, would have spared Morocco from thinking about resorting to the market and investments of the Gulf. But the stubbornness and determination to isolate and dominate Morocco through the creation of a mercenary entity in the Algerian military, is what destroyed the dream of the Maghreb people, and the continued Algerian violence finished it off. There is a kind of generalization in his speech on the Arab monarchies, as he mentioned the republican leaders holding on to their chairs even if it led to the shedding of the last drop of blood of their people. It is true that the dream of the Maghreb people is to see their countries in North Africa united in a framework that strengthens these countries and makes them overcome dominant dependencies, whether toward the west or the east. But for Morocco to continue its way alone, waiting for the Algerian leaders to come to reason and stop dreaming of dominating the countries in the region and leave the fate of their people on hold for years to come in addition to the 35 years that have elapsed, and for Morocco to have the reputation of opting for its own interests, this is unacceptable in Mr. Adel’s intervention. What Algeria is doing, does it not stem from the desire to achieve its own interests? or is within the understanding of “you are not allowed, but we are” for the reason that Algeria has a republican system and Morocco is a monarchy? What would you think then, if Qatar asked Algeria to join the Gulf Cooperation Council, do you think the Algerian leaders would refuse the invitation? Would you blame them as military Republicans for showing interest to accept the invitation? We as Arab peoples, need to unite to compete with Western unions, knowing that we have enough primary elements to achieve this unity, but military populists wanted to remove systems and replace them with what is lowest. Did the Arab Republics not end the dreams of their people?

We want Morocco to join the Gulf Cooperation Council.

I’m Saudi, and I love all Arab peoples, but the east and west are two distinct things that do not meet. I believe that the goal is to take in the gloomy Arab League. First Morocco, then Tunisia, Algeria and Libya (after restoring stability), and the next step would be Egypt with new conditions and circumstances. The remaining countries will be invited afterward, with stricter conditions, and specific economic and regional requirements, unlike the current situation where the Comoros are equal to Sudan and Egypt.

Peace be upon you. Do you rejoice over a king whose throne is destabilized? I don’t, because I know that these kings sold their religion and land to Israel. How can the U.S. know that terrorism will hit Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries? These countries made concessions to the West, causing the defeats of Arabs. They destroyed the kings, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Palestine. Only Algeria is spared, waiting for Israel to eliminate Arabs, and for the kings to obey Israel’s orders…….

We want Morocco to join the Gulf Cooperation Council. People should know that the King is protecting and defending his country, and that their fates are more intertwined compared to a President who only cares about collecting money to enjoy after leaving office. + God bless our King Mohammed VI.

Saying that Arab monarchies are being put to the test, then using the example of Tunisia and Egypt raises many psychological and realistic questions. Morocco’s accession to the Cooperation Council won’t make it lose its logic, nor turn it into a copy of Saudi Arabia or Kuwait. Morocco’s fate is linked to Europe, will-nilly. Opening the borders with Algeria shouldn’t be given a lot of importance as long as the Algerian people are held hostages in the hands of rulers like Bekhadem Oyahya… Morocco must apply Tariq ibn Ziyad’s logic backwards: The sea is in front of you, and the enemy is behind you. So carry on, and cross the sea… Once they gain freedom, Algerians will think about their neighbors and brothers… Let’s be like South Korea who crossed the sea, and left the Northerners make weapons and live in famine… The world will destroy the foolish weapons like happened to Libya and Iraq… sooner or later.

The Arab monarchies are out of fashion? With who? All the Arab regimes whose members have been thrown into the rubbish formerly ruled “Republics”; Tunisia, Egypt and Libya had former “republican” leaders who were explosively loathed. A stark inverse is true in the Arab Kingdoms where Arabs express favourable opinions about their Kings – this is mostly true whether your ideological bend will allow to to recognise it or not. How then, can these monarchies be out of fashion when they receive approval ratings that western leaders settle with never receiving? Logically it would be more appropriate to say western regimes are out of fashion before you say the same about Arab monarchies. However such will never happen because you wish to import western governments to our Arab region – those western governments might be atop your mental alter where they are beyond censure.

About Maghreb integration – a consecrated ambition in the hearts of Moroccans- Morocco has faithfully done its utmost to manifest this ambition in all its intended glory, but painfully, a powerful regional “Republic” has accorded undermining Morocco its foreign policy directive. I mean for crying out load, is it Rabat that’s not willing to open its border? What should we think about a regime that refers to Morocco as a brotherly country, yet refuses to normalize borders with it? What explains these many incongruous positions? Morocco has made no victims in region (unlike what some propagandas assert); because of this fact, we have nothing to resolve with anyone! Therefore this whole misapprehension that Morocco must resolve its problems with X, Y and Z before regional integration can progress is fallacious; the victims and injustices have been completely invented.