Blatant promotion of fake news declares the bankruptcy of “Islamists” and “nationalists”!!
In a coordinated and significant manner, a wide spectrum of “Islamists” and “nationalists” have been circulating posts attributed to Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, who lost her husband and nine children in a brutal Israeli attack on their home in the Gaza Strip. The posts, attributed to the Palestinian doctor, condemned the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces’ alleged tribute to the Israeli Air Force commander, whom she considered directly responsible for the bombing of her family’s home in the Gaza Strip. A series of reposts and comments on the aforementioned post followed, condemning what she calls Morocco’s “normalization” with the Zionist entity.
Because the "pre-packaged" positions were ready to be launched after Dr. Alaa's tweet, it only took a few minutes after the tweet was posted before the comments started pouring in, suggesting that the commenters were fans of the Palestinian doctor and followers of her supposed Facebook account!! These malicious tweets, none of whose authors bothered to take a few minutes to investigate the authenticity of the account's attribution to Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, firstly, the authenticity of what was written in the tweet, and secondly, the authenticity of the news itself about the alleged Moroccan honoring of the Israeli general. The failure to research and attempt to verify the subject, to find out the answers to the previous questions, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the intention was premeditated for this coordinated attack, without the need to verify the entire issue.
As a sample of this coordinated attack, we can suffice with three examples of those who made these comments, which are supposed to include a wide spectrum with no connection to each other. Although this hypothesis, in turn, requires further research, it will not be the goal of this article, at least for now. The intended responses will address the comments of the so-called Abderrazak Makri, former president of the Algerian Movement of Society for Peace; Mohamed Larbi Zitout, the Algerian "opposition" and president of the "Rachad" movement residing in the United Kingdom; and Jamal Rayyan, a Palestinian journalist working for the Qatari Al Jazeera channel. We will not address other voices who have taken to attacking Morocco under the pretext of normalization, a "scam" (in the opinion of our Egyptian brothers) that allows them to profit from the money of the "fighting" Algerian regime!!
Let's start with Makri, one of General Toufik's "minions," who falsely and slanderously claims to be part of political Islam and the opposition to the Algerian regime! No free Algerian has ever acknowledged the man and his movement since its founding by Sheikh Mahfoud Nahnah as representing Islam or belonging to the opposition. Makri began his comment by lamenting the "religious brotherhood," neighborhood, and shared history with Moroccans, calling on them to "resist the high treason being perpetrated by their regime." He considered their popular marches against normalization, which their "fighter" regime hadn't even allowed ten Algerians to carry out in support of Palestine and its people, to be insufficient. Makri echoed the question attributed to Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar in her aforementioned post: "How can an Arab Muslim country honor those who killed its children and more than 65,000 Palestinians?" This refrain was repeated in the comments of the chorus that jumped on the bereaved doctor's post, without verifying any of our previous questions.
Hours later, the so-called Arab Zitout followed suit, repeating the same claim and attacking again and again, without even being stopped by the poor language used in the blog post attributed to the Palestinian doctor. This was evident when he was confused while reading the phrase “wa-hasafa” in the blog post attributed to Dr. Alaa, considering it either a “typo” or that the word “hasafa” is an expression in the Palestinian dialect!! If he had thought for a few seconds, he would have discovered without much difficulty that the word is a Gulf term that is not used by any person in the Levant, let alone the Palestinians!!
The same thing happened with journalist Jamal Rayyan, who is accustomed to making outbursts attacking Morocco, just like the so-called Abdel Bari Atwan, without either of them having the means to prove his connection to the Algerian regime's media choir and its electronic flies! Rayyan could have, even if just to throw sand in people's eyes, commented with a single word of condemnation or denunciation of the Qatari Air Force's participation in military maneuvers in Greece, alongside the Israeli Air Force, less than a month before the alleged tweet (mid-April)!!
Despite the Moroccan attackers' lack of interest in verifying the matter, they didn't even bother to read the clarifications published by some Moroccan, Arab and foreign activists in cyberspace. They first confirmed that Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar has no Facebook accounts, and that what was published in her name was the work of "other parties" who coined the vulgar phrase in her name, including the phrase "What a pity" which has no connection to the Palestinian dialect whatsoever; and that the alleged honoring incident was nothing more than an "exchange of souvenirs" between the commander of the Moroccan Air Force and his Israeli counterpart during the latter's visit to Morocco in February 2023, more than two years and three months before the Palestinian doctor's tragedy!! As for the attacks related to the incident, and related to Israel's participation in the "African Lion" 2025 maneuvers supervised by the United States, the attackers of Morocco did not mean to clarify that it was limited to the participation of 12 members of the Israeli army, including three journalists, as the journalist, the correspondent for the Spanish newspaper "El Pais" who covered the event, explained, out of 10,000 who participated in the maneuvers!!
Claiming to be a Muslim, or even a journalist, requires its owners to verify the veracity of any news coming from an "immoral person" so as not to harm people through ignorance. They have always claimed to feel no embarrassment or remorse for their actions! Their failure to verify this information is nothing more than a denial of the validity of their claim to be a Muslim or a reliable journalist.
In conclusion, no matter how hard the parties associated with the Algerian regime try to attack Morocco under the pretext of normalization with the Zionist entity or other pretexts, they will not be able to influence Moroccans' confidence in the sincerity of their "regime's" defense of the Palestinian cause and its support for its people with the tools at their disposal. Nor will they succeed in covering up the wide margin, unparalleled in any other Arab situation, of allowing various popular expressions of support and backing for the struggle of their Palestinian brethren and condemning the actions of the Zionist criminals in the Gaza Strip and the rest of Palestine. Accordingly, these desperate and miserable attempts will only succeed in increasing the adherence of Moroccans, both government and people, to the correctness of their national positions towards Palestine and its people, including positions that express some disagreement with their government's decision to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. The continued attacks by these flies on Morocco are nothing more than confirmation of the bankruptcy of these "Islamist" and "nationalist" voices!
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