Tags: Morocco, Algeria obsession
Qandyl Mohamed – Blogger, Independent Moroccan Human Rights and Political Activist
In Morocco today, numbers and facts speak louder than words: a collapsed economy, foreign companies leaving for good, strategic deals frozen or canceled, debts snowballing out of control, an education system on its deathbed, a dead healthcare sector, and justice long buried. Meanwhile, the political and economic elite — embodied in the alliance between the monarchy and the Makhzen — continue plundering the nation’s wealth and drugging the people, under the protection of a multinational occupation: France, the Zionists, and the Emiratis.
The regime is rotting from within: palace power struggles, infighting among intelligence factions, and corruption at the highest levels. To compensate for its inability to maintain any real stability, it resorts to reckless policies such as settling thousands of sub-Saharan Africans at the expense of the Moroccan people.
But what is astonishing — and pitiful — is not only the collapse of the state, but the mental collapse of a large segment of society, especially the Ayyasha (palace loyalists), the regime’s mouthpieces, and its yellow press. These people have turned Algeria into a scapegoat for every disaster:
🔹️Economic collapse?? Blame Algeria.
🔹️Failed projects?? Blame Algeria.
🔹️Rampant corruption?? Blame Algeria.
🔹️Seeking foreign protection?? Blame Algeria.
🔹️Influx of sub-Saharan migrants?? Blame Algeria.
🔹️Even if it doesn’t rain, “surely Algeria is behind it”!!.
This pathological obsession with Algeria has become a psychological plague, crippling logic and destroying any capacity for critical thinking. They no longer have the courage to face the truth: the real enemy is inside the country, sitting on the throne, looting, corrupting, and allying with the West and the Zionists to perpetuate its power.
What’s worse is that the targeting is not limited to the inside; it extends to opposition abroad — of which we are part. Those of us forced to leave the country due to repression and threats find ourselves subjected to the vilest insults from the Ayyasha and the regime’s mouthpieces, and even from some who claim to be opposition figures inside Morocco. It is enough for us to write, express an opinion, or criticize an economic disaster or political scandal for the same ready-made accusations to be thrown at us:
“Separatist,” “Algerian agent,” “traitor to the nation.”
These are not just insults; they are part of a systematic attempt to tarnish our reputations and destroy our credibility so that our voices are silenced and our messages never reach the people. The irony is that these accusations — which they believe are shameful — are in fact a badge of honor, proof that we are outside their herd, detached from their miserable reality, and refusing to take part in the theater of loyalty to the Makhzen and the monarchy.
In political science, this phenomenon is known as Enemy Construction — a classic strategy used by authoritarian regimes for centuries. The idea is to create or exaggerate an external threat — real or imagined — to distract from domestic crises and rally the public behind the regime under the pretext of “defending the homeland.”
The Moroccan regime, through its media machine and propaganda apparatus, has turned Algeria into the “eternal enemy” that explains every failure, from economic collapse to water shortages. The aim is not to convince everyone of the truth, but to create a psychological environment in which citizens fear thinking outside this narrative, because any internal criticism is instantly branded as treason.
This policy kills critical thinking and keeps people imprisoned by fear, but it carries within it the seeds of its own failure, because lies — no matter how long they last — cannot feed the hungry, heal the sick, or restore lost dignity.
Conclusion: The Algeria Complex is not just political propaganda; it is a psychological weapon used to numb minds and redirect public anger away from the real problem — the alliance of the Makhzen and the monarchy. It is the policy of a permanent external enemy to justify repression and failure, but history shows that such lies never last… and once people awaken, they do not return to sleep.
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