The Eastern Sahara: The Algerian Military Regime Confronted with a Historical Truth That Can No Longer Be Ignored
From Washington, a clear and powerful message was delivered by Charles Dahan, influential Vice President of the World Federation of Moroccan Jews: “The Western Sahara is Moroccan — the case is closed. It is now time to reopen the file of the Eastern Sahara, a territory that colonial France illegally annexed to Algeria, but which is Moroccan by essence, by memory, and by right.”
This statement, far from being symbolic, rings out as a sharp warning to the Algerian military regime. This regime, mired in its outdated obsessions and authoritarian reflexes, believed it had forever buried this historical truth. But history is returning with force, carried today by a determined Moroccan diaspora that is bringing the truth to the very heart of American institutions.
What Algeria has been hiding for decades behind demagogic slogans and diversionary tactics regarding the Sahara is in fact a colonial reality that it has inherited and perpetuated: the Moroccan Eastern Sahara, including regions like Tindouf and Colomb-Béchar, was unjustly stripped from the Kingdom through an arbitrary redrawing of borders by France—without consultation or legitimacy.
The regime in Algiers, which claims to defend the rights of peoples, has never ceased to oppress its own—silencing Kabyle voices, crushing dissent, and militarizing even the slightest protest. It manipulates the Sahara issue to mask its own failure, while its economy limps along on gas exports and its diplomacy is increasingly isolated and discredited around the world.
In contrast, Morocco continues to pursue a clear-headed, patient strategy rooted in historical legitimacy. Buoyed by its international diplomatic victories, the growing recognition of its sovereignty over the Sahara, and its respected and proactive foreign policy, the Kingdom is now turning to its next great cause: the Eastern Sahara. A battle that Moroccan civil society, its elites, and its foreign partners are preparing to wage with resolve.
Dahan stated it plainly: “The mobilization has begun. Targeted initiatives are already underway in the U.S. Congress and within international institutions. The objective: to place the Eastern Sahara issue within the global debate on colonial injustice and Morocco’s territorial integrity.”
For Algiers, this prospect is a nightmare. If the international community starts reexamining the borders hastily drawn by colonial powers, then the Algerian fiction will collapse. The myth of a stable and indivisible territory inherited from 1962 cannot withstand the scrutiny of truth.
The era of historical impunity is coming to an end. Morocco has never renounced its rights and will now assert them on all fronts: legal, diplomatic, and historical. The Eastern Sahara will return to the Nation—not through conflict, but through the quiet force of law, memory, and justice.
As for the Algerian military regime, it would be wise to brace itself. The age of manipulation and stolen borders is over. Morocco is moving forward—and it will not stop.
Abderrazzak Boussaid / Le7tv
