Tensions between Morocco and Algeria are mounting precipitously. Or rather, Morocco is precipitously mounting tensions with Algeria. And if Algeria is not careful, it could fall into a trap well laid by Rabat. That trap would result in Algeria being marginalized on the international stage for the foreseeable future. Algeria would be labeled a rogue and pariah, shunned and alone even though when the dust settles, Algeria will have done nothing wrong.
In a November 6 speech commemorating Morocco’s 1975 Green March into Western Sahara, King Mohammed VI blasted unnamed countries for living in a fantasy world where Western Saharans could someday exercise their self-determination. It was lost on no one that the monarch was referring to Algeria, which has been the loudest proponent of Sahraoui self-determination other than the Sahraouis themselves. The king also said that countries, presumably meaning Algeria again, were clinging to the Western Sahara issue in order to distract their populations from domestic problems.
Some observers pointed out that sometimes what is an accusation and what is a confession can be confusing.
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