Hassan Ored writes about Morocco and Algeria
It is interesting that the one who drew the Moroccan flag was an Algerian, Kaddour bin Gharbet, and he was the one who set the Makhzani protocol, and that the one who inspired the celebration of the throne, an Algerian who was residing in Salé, was Mr. Maisa, and who was the director of the personal writing of Muhammad V, the jurist al-Maamari, from the Kabylie region, and he is from He will become the first minister of royal palaces and ceremonies, and that the one who will establish the nucleus of the largest Islamic party is Dr. Al-Khatib of Algerian origin, and he obtained Moroccan citizenship, by virtue of the Dahir on the day of independence, and that the Kingdom’s late historian Abdel Wahab bin Mansour hails from Ain El-Hout near Tlemcen.. On the other hand, the The first president of independent Algeria, the late Ahmed Ben Bella, of Moroccan origins from the districts of Marrakesh, whose family settled, Bella Mughniyeh, (it is the name of a wali, whose sister is found in Moroccan soil, and her name is Lalla Khaira), and Larbi El Mahidi is one of the first leaders, from the region of Oran, and was assassinated by French forces. to the Souss region in Morocco. The first Minister of the Interior, Medghari, was of Moroccan origin, and the first president of Free Algeria, the late Ben Bella, was surrounded by advisers from Morocco, including Mohamed Tahiri and Abdel Salam Jebali, who are still alive. As for the Algerians who lived in Morocco before independence and joined their country when it was liberated, then there is nothing wrong with it, among them the late Houari Boumediene, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Larbi Belkheir, Qosdi Merbah, Yazid Zerhouni, Abdellatif Rahal, Sherif Belkacem, and Chakib Khalil..and among the personalities The Moroccan who had a special relationship with Algeria, the martyr Mahdi Ben Baraka, as he studied in Algeria in the early forties, as well as Hajj Mhamed Bahnini, professor of Arabic literature for the late Hassan II, and one of the statesmen during his reign, he studied in Algeria and was associated with a friendship with the scholar Bashir Ibrahimi, and he was a channel The late Hassan II with the late Boumediene.
The current generation has the right to wonder, in each country separately, what this date represents, today. What does the revolution of the king and the people represent, and what does it mean for the current generation of Moroccans. The Moroccan historian Abdullah Laroui, in his book “The Maghreb of Hassan II,” had previously considered that one of the drawbacks of the national movement to Hassan II at the beginning of his reign was that he was the king of a sect, rather than the king of all Moroccans. It is the right of the current generation, to see the spirit of the revolution of the king and the people as a series, not a memory, and not to divert the course of this relationship in favor of groups motivated by more interests
It is a collective ambition for the benefit of the country and the region. Just as the current generation in Algeria has the right to ask the question: Was the Soummam rule adhered to? And why was the reward of its poles the reward of Sinmar, from the late Abban Ramadan and Karim Belkacem, or from the Mujahid Amirouche, who, even if he died in the arena of honor, but that did not excuse him from the blasphemy and ingratitude. It is the duty of the elites in the two countries to invoke the deep bonds that bound them at a fateful stage in their history, and should bring them together in a station no less dangerous than the previous one.
It grieves in the soul all the sacrifices made by the Mahdists in the two countries, the unfortunate situation they live in, and the estrangement that exists between two peoples who are in fact one people. And saddened by what the reputable Du Economist weekly published a few weeks ago, that the two countries could have been the strongest economies in the entire Middle East, and how they reached the state they are in now.
May the two peoples evoke the goals and spirit of August 20, and energetically set out to build a better tomorrow.
#Hassan Oored: An article in Al-Quds Al-Arabi