Deputy Parl’t Speaker: Algeria Won’t Normalize Ties With Zionist Entity

Date: 16 August 2023 - 21:14

News ID: ۱۱۸۳۳۳

ALGIERS (Dispatches) – The deputy speaker of the Algerian parliament says the North African country will not join other Arab countries in the normalization of ties with the Zionist regime, as it deems the regime a colonial entity that could never integrate into the Arab world.
Moussa Kharfi told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that Algeria will maintain its adamant refusal to establish ties with the occupying regime, even if it stands alone on that path.
He underlined that Algeria will not accept any sort of normalization at whatever cost and will stand against any attempt that would encourage such a decision.
Algeria has suffered for decades from colonialism, and knows very well about the menace and its fallout, he said.
“We consider Israel to be among the colonial entities, and it cannot be part of the Arab world one day,” Kharfi stated.
He also argued that the normalization of ties with the regime is simply confined to the state level, and the nations of those Arab states categorically reject the process.
Algeria has been one of the few Arab states to maintain a pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist stance. Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has repeatedly urged Arab countries to support the Palestinian people instead of supporting Zionist expansion in the region.
Under the so-called Abraham Accords, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco signed U.S.-brokered normalization deals with the Zionist regime in late 2020. Palestinians have denounced the deals as a “betrayal” to their cause.
Morocco’s decision to normalize ties with the Zionist regime came after former U.S. president Donald Trump recognized the North African country’s “sovereignty” over Western Sahara, which has been at the center of a decades-old territorial row between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
The Algerian foreign ministry later rejected Trump’s stance, saying the U.S. decision “has no legal effect because it contradicts UN resolutions, especially UN Security Council resolutions on Western Sahara.”