The Makhzen’s Normalization With Israel, A Demonstration Of Saving Netanyahu Project

Algeria was not surprised by Morocco’s move to normalize with Israel, the Minister of Communication and spokesman for the Algerian government, Ammar Belhimer, said in a statement that means a lot, and has something behind it, what is it?

The statements of Algerian officials and prominent figures in the American system, and even the Moroccan Foreign Minister himself, Nasser Bourita, confirm that the normalization of the Makhzen and its relations with the Hebrew state was just a demonstration process to salvage the normalization project, which has been in crisis since President Abdelmadjid Tebboune placed the Arab countries that normalise with Israel in trouble, with his famous statement in which he said that “Algeria does not bless normalization and refuses to rush to it”.

Normalization began very quickly and the UAE announced its normalization in mid-August, and less than a month later, the Kingdom of Bahrain joined it, that is, on September 12, 2020, while President Tebboune’s famous statement came on September 20, 2020.

Tebboune’s statement is considered the first of its kind among the leaders of Arab countries, and it went against the statements of many Arab leaders in support of normalization, which caused a shock in the Arab scene, in a way that confused the axis calling for normalization, and also brought suspicion in the hearts of some Arab politicians and elites who adopted the justifying position of what Abu Dhabi and Manama did … and after that, the overt normalization train stopped at least for about six weeks after it was running at breakneck speeds until Sudan joined the normalization on October 23rd.

While the normalization wager was that the next country on the normalization agenda would be large, central, and even symbolic in the imagination of Arabs and Muslims, like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but Sudan was included unjustly among the countries that finance terrorism, this country that is living political unrest, economic crisis, internal destruction, and is a hostage to America, was forced to accept normalization with Israel.

After the train of normalization stopped for about two months, which coincided with the loss of its first sponsor, the US President Donald Trump, the election race towards the White House and the approaching date of his exit from power, the Makhzen jumped to the fore, to play the role of saving the normalization train from stopping by announcing the establishment of relations with the usurpers’ entity, which began to lose hope in the success of its project, with the approaching end of Trump’s rule.

What Rabat did could not be considered a normalization with Tel Aviv, but rather a resumption of relations that already existed. This was confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself, Nasser Bourita, in the interview with the Zionist newspaper “Yediot Aharonot”, in which he said: “From our point of view, we are not talking about normalization, because relations were originally normal. We are talking about a resumption of relations between the two countries as they were previously because the relationship has always existed and never stopped”.

Morocco was considered in the agenda of normalization just a piece of spare parts for the normalization train, which it would resort to when one of them was destroyed, and the Makhzen was pushed to the media front, when the normalization glow faded in the media, due to the lack of enthusiasm of many Arab and Islamic countries that had promised and retreated, and the end of the term of the sponsor of normalization in Washington, linking it to the Sahrawi issue is nothing but a matter of throwing dust in the eyes of the defeated Moroccan people.

The proof of this approach is what was stated in the article published by the former US National Security Adviser, John Bolton, in Foreign Policy magazine: “The UAE and Bahrain liberated Israel from diplomatic isolation, and whatever Morocco did in response to Biden’s decision on Western Sahara, it will slightly affect Tel Aviv”.