The call of the present between Algeria and Morocco
I do not know the extent of the influence of the calls made by Algerian and Moroccan intellectuals, from time to time, on the course of events in order to remind the commonality between the two countries. The structure of the two regimes and their options make them deaf to every call for wisdom and prudence, and the trend of international developments pushes them to line up in two opposing axes, and perhaps restore the specter of the Cold War, and make the region an arena for conflict of adults, and its owners have nothing to do with it. Nevertheless, underwater messages that sink into the depths of the countries of the Maghreb should not be underestimated and carried by those seen as marginal, dreamers or out of the flock ... this is at best, hired and traitors, or in the service of foreign agendas, in most cases. Rather, throwing them on charges of terrorism.
During the past week, I was stopped by an article by Nur al-Din Thanyo on April 7 in "Al-Quds Al-Arabi", to remind what is known, the deep ties of the Maghreb countries, which have become buried due to estrangement and a diagnosis of the causes of weakness. A diagnosis that may seem troublesome, but it is not without its relevance, as he says, “Algeria has suffered and still has internal shortcomings, which have been in place since independence in 1962, and we mean its wrong start without the framework of the Arab Maghreb (I call it the countries of the Maghreb, because the expression is old other than the expression it uses, which is The Arab Maghreb, and provokes reactions of the Amazigh tendencies (which it needs as a formula for its new entity. " I was stopped by a call by Algerian and Moroccan intellectuals entitled "The Call of the Future" calling for opening borders between the two countries, limiting hate speech and opening dialogue channels between the two countries.
Can these initiatives affect the course of events? I doubt this, but it is important to stand up to it, because those with conscience reject the "inevitability" of collision. The important thing is that there are voices that do not go in the general direction, and that the prevailing trend based on clash and disharmony refuses. In all confrontational relations, moments of recuperation and truce, even in wars, the sound of the guns is silenced, for a moment, to allow the belligerents to collect their dead, bury their dead, and allow humanitarian operations, even in the Crusades. And that moment may turn from a cease-fire to a truce. Morocco and Algeria are not in open warfare, but rather in media and ideological wars. I do not dispute the callers of their call that looks into the future, and I share the analysis of Noureddine Thaniou in recalling the past, the deep ties between the peoples of the Maghreb countries, and the hope for unity since the North African Star with Masali El Hajj in 1926 and the Soumam Land in 1956, and the participation of Moroccans and Tunisians in the war of liberation of Algeria. And the state of faltering in development, modernization and democratization that the three countries, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco know, in different ways. I am satisfied with an appeal for the present, and part of it is included in the call to the future, and in Nour al-Din Thanyo’s article, in order to demand something simple, which is, to stop the media bickering. The media bickering has reached a level of depravity and despicability that does not provide the symbols of the two countries, mocks the components of each country, is exposed to the symptoms of the two peoples, and doubts the existence of the other, does not sponsor anything but no responsibility, with measures that insult the future, according to the French expression used in political discourse, including the last procedure that Farmers from Figuig were sentenced to leave from border land on which they had a usufruct, before there were borders and before they were demarcated.
We need a media truce, which can perhaps allow thoughtful thinking, and raise humanitarian issues, as a second stage
Moroccans and Algerians are not Germans and French, but they share the assets, as the majority of them are Berbers who have expressed their expression, and they share what expresses this common source through the structure of their tongue and their pronunciation, which carries an Amazigh accent, and they speak Arabic, and they share their loyalty to cultural symbols of the Maliki school of thought, and take Moroccans. On the authority of Imam Sahnoun, born in Tunisia, and Al-Wanchrisi, born in Algeria, and they are among the imams of the Maliki school, without a problem or knot, just as Tunisians and Algerians take on the authority of Judge Ayyad Dafin Marrakesh, and the poems of Sidi Boumediene are recited, Dafin al-Abbad near Tlemcen, on every religious occasion In the regions of Morocco, the two countries punctuate the same angles, which find followers here and there, and include about ninety percent of the Berber speakers, and they share an overlapping history, and it is trivial to return the symbols of these origins to a country, and to judge today by the molds of yesterday's facts. And they differ as well, as the regions of a country differ .. and they differ in view of historical experiences, in the context of a great transformation that the countries of the Maghreb experienced, with the crusaders' harassment and attacks, and their unity shrank, and what formulated a turbulent political reality that still bears the effects of its turmoil, but these differences do not affect the strength, and therefore Moroccans moved to Algeria throughout history, individually and collectively, and lived in it, and Algerians moved to Morocco, as individuals, families and tribes, and Westernized, if this expression is correct. It suffices to recall that the first president of independent Algeria, the late Ahmed Ben Bella, traces its origins to the Sidi Rahal tribe near Marrakesh, and the first minister of royal palaces and ceremonies, and the second figure in the government was the late Faqih al-Maamari, born in the village of Taourirt Ait Mimoun in Kabylie. The Moroccans took from the Algerians, just as the Algerians took from the Moroccans, in what has become a common cultural one.
Some of the Orient used to think that we in the countries of the Maghreb did not go down to the point of prejudice to the symptoms in the conflict, and they were comparing what some countries of the East had known in terms of splashing for a while, but in recent times we have become the envy of the East, for not sliding into the symptoms and negligence during conflicts. Every country is free in its choices, as sovereignty allows it, and every country has independence in its decisions, and it cannot be governed by tutelage in its internal affairs. Morocco does not have to dictate to Algeria what it should, and it is not necessary for Algeria to do in regards to the internal affairs of Morocco. A country cannot throw its internal problems on the other side. Yes, we need a media truce, which can perhaps allow thoughtful thinking, and raise humanitarian issues, as a second stage. We also need to decriminalize those who sing outside the group, expressing the commonality, and rejecting the inevitability of collision. It is absurd to think that every country “cut the valley and dry its feet,” as the Maghreb proverb says. It is still spinning. The tectonic plates sunken in the consciousness of the Maghreb are still moving, and you may surprise those who remained in the rehearsal of colonialism.
Hassan Aourid