Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has confirmed that his country will not normalize relations with Israel before the establishment of a Palestinian state.The statement came in an interview with the French daily Le Point on Sunday and it was featured in Monday's edition.In response to a question about Algeria's readiness to normalize its relations with Israel if a Palestinian state were established, Tebboune said: "Of course, on the day that happens.""Our priority is the establishment of a Palestinian state,” he said.
A Moroccan writer mocks Tebboune.
The promotion of the idea that Israel might be interested in normalizing its relations with Algeria reflects an intellectual alienation confined to outdated narratives...The reality is that Algeria, from the perspective of Israeli interests and from the angle of the global Jewish strategic vision, represents nothing but a dark historical case, as the state that committed one of the largest mass expulsions and ethnic cleansing of Jews in modern times, confiscated their property, annihilated their cultural presence, and practiced against them a policy of systematic institutional exclusion.
The Jewish presence in Algeria was not marginal, but rather a structural part of the social and economic fabric of the region, extending over many centuries, from the Roman era to the Ottoman Empire and then the French colonial era.
But with the outbreak of the War of Independence and the rise of Algerian nationalism in its radical form, the Jewish community became a victim of an exclusionary system that did not differentiate between Jews and French, and considered everyone an extension of colonialism. After the independence phase, the Algerian state embarked on a process of systematic eradication of Algerian Jews, by looting their property, nationalizing their places of worship, and completely dismantling their social existence, in a blatant and profound violation of all legal principles and international norms related to the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples.
...The Algerian state is required to offer an official apology to the Jews of Algeria, review the legislation that legalized the seizure of their property, and open real channels of communication with representatives of the Jewish community abroad, within a serious conciliatory approach based on the foundations of historical justice and not on empty diplomatic maneuvers.
As for Israeli interests, Algeria does not constitute an influential player in the normalization equation, nor does it have any strategic value that could make its relations with Tel Aviv a priority. So, from a geopolitical perspective, Algeria lacks weight in the regional system, so it remains an isolated state, withdrawn into itself, unable to produce a rational and balanced foreign policy.
From an economic perspective, the Algerian economy suffers from structural fragility resulting from an eroded rentier model, which relies on hydrocarbon revenues without any ability to diversify its resources or develop its productive sectors. From a military perspective, the Algerian regime is bound by an outdated security doctrine, based on mechanical hostility to Israel without possessing any real ability to exert any influence on regional deterrence equations.
....The Arab countries that have engaged in the process of normalization with Israel did not do so in compliance with external dictates, as the Algerian discourse claims, but rather out of a strategic vision that realizes that engaging in the Israeli technological, economic, and security system represents a rational choice that is consistent with the facts of reality. As for Algeria, which is still a prisoner of the mentality of the sixties, it continues to close itself off, insisting on remaining outside the context of history, governed by a regime that suffers from intellectual poverty and a fragile vision, and relies on a wooden discourse that no longer has an echo even within local public opinion.
It goes without saying that the world is not waiting for Algeria, and Israel does not need relations with a political regime that lacks internal legitimacy and relies on empty slogans to cover up its inability to achieve development and stability.
If the Algerian president believes that he can bargain over the normalization card as a pressure tool or diplomatic gain, he is delusional, because Israel only recognizes real interests, not political outbidding that has no basis in reality.
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