In an article entitled "United, eternal and promising Morocco ... and outdated separatism" by its author Talaa Saoud Al-Atlassi, the publication notes that the UN Security Council resolution, adopted last October and which enshrines the peaceful approach of Morocco, reflects a firm international will to bring the issue of this artificial conflict from oblivion to the forefront.
The journalist and analyst notes, in this regard, that the senseless reaction of Algeria to the new situation has given rise to twists and turns that make it necessary to find a way out of this conflict before the stranglehold of resentment and recklessness tightens further around Algiers.
Algeria has manipulated the separatists of the polisario to sow disorder in the buffer zone of El Guerguerat, in a design that betrays its rejection of resolutions and peaceful approaches of the UN while trying to create a "liberated territory" to give a semblance of legitimacy to the separatism and render obsolete the ceasefire of 1991, notes Saoud Al-Atlassi, adding that all these actions were aimed at sowing doubt with regard to the international stance in relation to the Moroccan Sahara conflict.
He recalls that the operation conducted by the Royal Armed Forces in El Guerguerat has put an end to the "separatist disorder" and emptied it of its presumed diplomatic substance. Thanks to this intervention, the peaceful will of the international community has been spared while "the cries and threats of the defeated and the losers in an imaginary war have made the Algerian news agency (APS) a military base for missile launchers whose fire only touches its own fake news," he says.
He also underlines that the dynamics related to the Moroccan Sahara issue seems to be in turmoil and is heading towards a long-awaited solution.
For the author of the article, the U.S. recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara, which reinforced the legitimacy of the national unity approach, and the diplomatic breakthrough that accompanied this decision, with the opening of consulates in the southern provinces, have shaken the perception that the leaders in Algiers have of the situation and the future of the conflict.
Algeria will try to launch, through the polisario, a political offensive against the UN by accusing it of bias in favor of Morocco, he says, highlighting the sincerity of the Moroccan approach and revealing the "isolation" in which Algeria is entangled. "The separatist objective that Algiers has supported and sponsored for decades has no takers in the Security Council," he adds.
Indeed, writes Saoud Al Atlassi, the UN that Algeria has attacked through the polisario, rightly represents the will of states over which Morocco has no influence, stating that these states consider that the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara has lasted too long and, because of its proximity to the Sahel region and the Sahara, may contribute to the conflagration of this part of the world and the proliferation and export of terrorism.
These countries insist on a peaceful, realistic, just, lasting and consensual solution, which takes into account the situation in the region and the reality of the conflict, to achieve self-determination of this fringe of Sahrawi Moroccans in the camps of Tindouf, says the journalist, adding that "the majority of Sahrawi Moroccans are in their towns and villages in the Moroccan Sahara. They live, work, produce and contribute to the future of a united Morocco, through their commitment to the process of comprehensive national development”.
This situation crystallizes the failure of Algeria, which is unable to go through with its separatist project, he says, noting that none of the five permanent members of the Security Council or the UN recognize the pseudo republic. The same is true in the Arab world - with the exception of Algeria, the separatists' sponsor, stresses the analyst.
In the same vein, Saoud Al Atlassi notes that no European country recognizes this "micro-state", although some local civil society organizations interact with the separatist front, adding that 45 countries have withdrawn their recognition of the polisario since 2000, after realizing the real intentions of Algiers. In total, 164 UN member states do not recognize this "separatist product. Is this not an isolation that is only becoming more pronounced?,” he wonders.
The author of the article also indicates that the choice of peace made by the international community in the Security Council narrows the room for maneuver of the leaders of Algiers and "forces them to a political isolation increasingly suffocating," noting that this state of affairs exacerbates the "internal wars" in the country and the effect of the hirak that comes to disrupt the overall political actions of these leaders.
The post-independence Algerian state has exhausted its legitimacy in the face of the profound mutation of Algerian society, says the analyst, noting that this difficult change confronts the generals with an existential question.
In the same vein, the author states that the separatist movement itself feels the depth of the crisis in which the Algerian leadership is struggling and indicates that it will be the first victim of its disintegration. This disintegration will be the price to pay in any transformation that this Algerian leadership might undertake, whether vis-à-vis its people or in view of the changes in the region, including the international effort to resolve the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.
In this context, the author of the article points out the links that the polisario maintains with terrorist and separatist movements in the Sahel and Sahara region in order to secure its rearguard and strengthen its negotiating skills before its sponsor in case of pressure.
This is, according to the journalist, a direction that is becoming clearer with time, and has become a subject of interest to strategic research centers, "which see an escalation of tensions and regional dangers that Algeria may pay for in terms of stability and security."
Previous maneuvers by Algiers to mislead the world have fallen through, he notes.
The benefits of supporting the legitimacy and the approach of Morocco for the preservation of its national unity, peace and cooperation in the region are no longer to be demonstrated, he concludes.