Several sites circulated the possibility of a dialogue between Moroccan and Algerian activities, at an informal level, including what the International Center for Dialogue Initiatives supervised by human rights origin of Jamal Ben Omar, given the intensification of the bilateral relations, after Algeria announced in a communication issued by the Foreign Ministry to cut diplomatic relations between the two countries in August 2021.
Including what Balloon was considered a test of Mauritanian mediation, between Morocco and Algeria, not far from official American circles, led by Mauritanian Ali Abu Talib.
This is not the first time that initiatives for dissolving ice between the two countries have been emerging since the relations between them intensified, after cutting diplomatic relations, including official initiatives, at the level of Arab countries.
But it was all unsuccessful; Because mediation requires the acceptance of the two parties, or at least the non -objection of a party, but these endeavors were not accepted that allowed them to crystallize as an actual mediation.
On many parties, many parties adopted initiatives that were not released, and they were not allowed to be downloaded on the ground .. Some officials in the two countries believe that the file of Moroccan -Algerian relations is strategic, and unofficial events are not expected to affect it, whatever their weight or independence.
It was an initiative from the Tunisian parties that called for thinking about the ways of dialogue within the framework of Maghreb, but the war on Gaza blocked the initiative.
Some media channels have tried to conduct dialogues between Moroccan and Algerian events, but they remained a media phenomenon, with a limited impact, but rather, and the case is that dialogue requires sobriety, depth, and distance from the lights .. Non -sober media may offend, in light of the existing apprehension between the two countries .. Therefore, no initiative succeeded, parallel, or informal.
However, the current context, with the major transformations that the world knows, and the vibrations in the region, in the Middle East, or the Sahel region, and the arrangements taking place with African countries, under American auspices, would make the dialogue between the two countries, at least at the informal level, and please be influential at the level of decision.
The difference between Rabat and Algeria is known, however, in earlier periods, the issue of disagreement did not prevented the pursuit of the rigid situation between the two countries, although the relations previously did not reach the current reach of Chewj.
In 1983, Algeria, Tunisia, and Mauritania signed the Treaty of brotherhood, consensus and cooperation, and the response was to sign an agreement between Morocco by King Hassan II, With who was his archenemyMuammar Gaddafi, which is the Arab -African Union Agreement.
It was not awaiting that agreement that angered Washington, to continue, and that it had a tactical dimension. The matter ended that King Hassan II and Al -Shazly bin Jadid met in May 1987, by mediation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with an extensive efforts from King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, who attended the meeting between the leaders in a border area.
The policy of small steps led to the dissolution of the ice, when the Secretary of the National Liberation Front at the time presented the honorable assistant accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Ibrahimi student, in order to host the Moroccan monarch to attend the Arab summit that would be held in Algeria, June 1988.
King Hassan II’s answer was exciting to Algerian officials, saying how he could attend the summit and had an embassy in Algeria, and it was a reference to him to his desire to restore diplomatic relations, which was actually done within a few weeks before the summit, on June 8. Morocco was the one who asked to cut diplomatic ties in 1976, and Morocco had to initiate its appeal.
Is it the same scenario repeated? Are the major transformations that take place globally and regional, would open a group of dialogue, as happened in the context of the end of the eighties?
The focus of the dispute between the two countries is outwardly, around the desert. The position of the two countries is known, but is the issue of the desert the cause of tension between the two countries, or is it its image? This is because the tension between the two countries was based on the outbreak of the Sahara issue, and that the essence of the problem, as Ahmed bin Bella, said the first president of independent Algeria, is the ideological border between the two countries.
There are questions that cannot be ignored in light of the major transformations that the world knows, and prepare for the change of existing hierarchy: Can the two countries, in varying proportions, are immune to the folded identity speeches, in re -drawing the maps, which do not stop when recognizing cultural privacy? Can countries remain locked in the arms race, and their destiny and the fate of the region, which is considered, given their location and potential, promising.
Both countries confirm in their institutions the institutions of the Maghreb unity, which is the only framework for activating their qualifications, transgressing disputes over the borders, mobilizing their energies, while respecting the sovereignty of each country and its options, and respecting the obligations concluded between the two countries.
The logic of things is not necessarily what controls relations between states, and therefore one cannot speculate on the fate of relations, at the official level, unlike the informal level, which would be subject to considerations of rationality, frankness and audacity.
The current context, in light of the major global transformations, It would allow the possibility of an unofficial level, which includes Moroccan and Algerian activities, has credibility and has independence.
The funny thing is that the relations between the two peoples, at the level of social media platforms, have recently known a positive fragrance, under the influence of two workers, first to similar to popular situations on Gaza, and secondly reactions to questioning the Amazigh depth of North Africa, which were the two things that confused the stereotype that was fueled by the means of means.
In this regard, in light of the current context, it is necessary to stop, or to remove the hand from it, who moves it; Because its harm is more than its benefit, if it has beneficial, originally.
We can remember the axioms, which are that the current situation with its tension is not in the interest of Algeria and not in the interest of Morocco, and that reducing tension and providing bridges, on the horizon of normal relations, despite the existing differences, is in the interest of the two countries, and it would create a dynamic that can solve the existing differences.
Remember what the Algerian official media, at the radio level, was repeated in the mid -seventies of the last century, for a famous poetry house:
If your wind blows, then seize it, for every one who will be silent
There is a suitable context for dialogue between the two countries, albeit in an informal framework, and the opportunity should not be waste.
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