After President Tebboune, the journal El Djeich of the Algerian army denounces the Facebook pages which carry out propaganda against Algeria, including “500 in Morocco, 150 in France and 20 in Israel”. In the context of the resumption of the Hirak marches since February 22, the media point in particular to the promoters of the slogan “Civil status and not military!”.
February 22 marked the second anniversary of Hirak in Algeria, a popular movement that in April 2019 ended 20 years in power for ousted former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. On this occasion, thousands of Algerians resumed the weekly Friday marches in several cities of the country, chanting slogans, some of which arouse the concern of several political observers, in particular those directed against the National People’s Army (ANP), including the most important is “Civil status and not military!”.
During his televised interview on March 1, Abdelmadjid Tebboune dwelled at length on this slogan, launched 15 years ago, and currently chanted according to him in a perfectly coordinated manner by those who followed abroad, in Africa and in Europe, training courses, probably provided by the Canvas and Otpor organizations, on how to lead peaceful color revolutions. He also accused Morocco of controlling 98 propaganda websites directed against Algeria.
In its March issue, the ANP’s monthly review, El Djeich (The Army), in turn evokes the subject which has become a real source of concern for the security and stability of the country, also pointing to the role of hundreds of Facebook pages in Morocco, France and Israel.
“Where is this military state”?
“The number of Facebook pages alone managed from Morocco, with a view to attacking Algeria and its army, reaches more than 500. From France, it is around 150 and from the Zionist entity some 20 pages, ”writes El Djeich. “These same pages promote publications from other pages that attack the government and the army and spread fake news and rumors.”
And to recall that the “latest news, by way of example, is that which claims the sending by Algeria of its army to participate in military operations beyond national borders”, under the aegis of France .
Thus, the ANP magazine asks “where is this military state that” El Ahrar [the free men of Hirak, note] “refuses to exist and condemns its practices […]? What does it mean that historical and eternal enemies, with different ideologies and goals, unite against the institution of the National People’s Army? What does the unification of their discourse, the similarity of their slogans and their demands mean? Is it pure coincidence or a programmed and planned action, behind which hide parties who have lost privileges, interests and assets estimated at billions? ”
“Surfing the Hirak wave”
Recalling the horrors of the black decade of Islamist terrorism, El Djeich believes that it “is not surprising to face today Islamist terrorist organizations in solidarity with the left current, the laity or even the” Ahrar “who want an oligarchic democracy ”.
The ANP magazine, which also points to the henchmen of the former Bouteflika regime in promoting the slogan “Civil status and not military!”, Affirms that “this mafia is fully aware of the role of the army […] in the preservation of the security of the citizen, the protection of the fatherland […] and its sovereignty ”. “That is why she tried to ride the Hirak wave and deal a blow to the strong bond uniting the people to their army and to the service of foreign agendas which still live on illusions of the past,” she concludes.
“Strike and dismember national armies”
In an interview with Sputnik, Doctor Pierre Azar, an expert in geopolitical and economic questions, is affirmative: the tendencies to divide, even the clashes between national armies and peoples which are currently appearing in certain countries, obey the same logic as those of the events of the Arab Spring. He assures us that it is the same international actors who are in the driver’s seat, namely “the transnational powers”.
These are “the great powers of money and industry that the former President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower referred to in his farewell speech as the military-industrial complex”, he adds, stressing that “it is these powers […] which are pulling the strings of events on the international scene without any possibility for States to influence or control their course”.
Finally, asserting that terrorist organizations like Daesh * are a direct emanation of these transnational powers, Dr. Azar explains that “the method they use to attack states is to strike and dismember national armies”.
“In this sense, the events that took place during what has been called the Arab Spring or those happening right now in Venezuela, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Sudan are interconnected and strictly obey the same logic, ”he argues.
* Terrorist organization banned in Russia
