ALGIERS (Dispatches) –
Algeria’s Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has described the Moroccan-Zionist military deal as a “dirty military alliance,” Quds Press reported.
Lamamra delivered his remarks during the 8th High-Level Seminar on Peace and Security in Africa in Oran, Algeria.
“Every step taken by the Moroccan authorities related to this dirty alliance distances it more from Algeria and its people,” he asserted.
The deal, Lamamra said: “Reflects the similarity between two expansionist regional powers pushed by ignoring their victims who are being deprived of their inalienable rights.”
“The Moroccan authorities, in their alliance with the Zionist entity, are contributing to an unprecedented escalation of Israeli hegemony over the region. Every step taken by the Moroccan authorities in this malicious military alliance takes them away from Algeria and its people,” he added.
Morocco and the Zionist regime signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on military cooperation during a visit by Zionist war minister Benny Gantz to Morocco.
Following the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the occupying regime, Morocco and the regime established diplomatic relations. However, ties were cut in 2000, at the start of the second Palestinian Intifada.
In September 2020, Morocco resumed its relations with the occupying regime as part of a U.S.-sponsored deal, which saw several Arab regimes initiating relations with the occupying regime.
Under the so-called Abraham Accords, Morocco became the fourth Arab country in 2020 to reach a normalization agreement with the regime after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan, in what has been strongly denounced by Palestinians as a “betrayal” of their cause.
Earlier, the Algerian foreign minister had criticized African Union Commission head Moussa Faki Mahamat who insisted on granting the Zionist regime an observer status in the pan-African organization.

Jordanians Stage Mass Rally

Jordanians also held a mass rally against a water-for-energy deal with the Zionist regime, saying the agreement further normalizes ties with the occupying regime while it presses ahead with its occupation of Palestinian territories and acts of aggression against Palestinians.
Police were deployed heavily around a downtown area of the capital Amman leading to the Husseini Mosque where demonstrators marched after Friday prayers.
The demonstrators chanted anti-Zionist slogans and held banners reading, “The gas of the enemy is an occupation!” and “Down with the gas deal.”
The Jordanian protesters called on their government to scrap its agreement with the Zionist regime and called normalization a “humiliation”.
Last month, Jordan’s water minister, the Zionist regime’s energy minister, and the United Arab Emirates’ climate change minister, signed the water-for-energy deal in Dubai in the presence of U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry.