America’s Flawed Peace Agreement Between Morocco and Algeria: Trump’s Recipe for Driving a Wedge of Colonialism!
By: Ustadh Munajji Muhammad
(Translated)

Al-Rayah Newspaper - Issue 572 - 05/11/2025

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, announced that his team is working to finalize a peace agreement between Algeria and Morocco in the near future. This came during a television interview he gave with Jared Kushner on Sunday evening on the CBS program “60 Minutes.” Wittkoff said, “We’re working on Algeria and Morocco right now, our team. And there’s going to be a peace deal there in the next, in my view, 60 days.”

The Western Sahara issue has constituted the most insidious aspect of the American-European colonialist conflict in the western end of the Muslim World since the mid-1970s. With the first and second Trump administrations, and the strategic shift in the issue following Trump’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara, and his support for the autonomy plan as the only viable solution — part of what was termed Trump's economic and commercial strategy and his vision of the world as a market for deals and the profit he would reap, with time being a crucial factor in expediting results — he views the Sahara as virgin territory rich in strategic minerals, a gateway to Africa for American capitalism, and a base for his political, military, and economic influence in the Maghreb region which must be seized and subjected to American colonialist control.

America, under the capitalist Trump, is accelerating its efforts to finalize its colonial deal in its direct dealings with the two main parties: Morocco and Algeria. Witkoff’s statement about a peace agreement within the next sixty days, and that his team is working on it, indicates that practical steps and contacts with the concerned parties are underway. This was confirmed by Massad Boulos, Trump’s daughter’s father-in-law and advisor on African affairs, who revealed in an interview with the Saudi channel Al-Sharq last week that Algeria wants a “fundamental and final solution to the Western Sahara dispute” and “also expressed their willingness to improve ties with their Moroccan neighbors.” He expressed his optimism about the possibility of resolving this dispute, adding that he had met with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune recently and found a welcome for rebuilding bridges of trust with the Moroccan people, and “with Morocco, with the Moroccan people, with His Majesty the King, the Moroccan government, and the brotherly Moroccan nation” Ultimately, the two countries are brotherly and neighboring peoples, bound by a shared history and a large number of values ​​and interests.

As for Morocco, Massad Boulos stated, “For Trump and Washington, Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara is completely irreversible and not subject to any debate whatsoever. We categorically consider the Moroccan proposal regarding Western Sahara to be the best and only viable approach... We are optimistic because we know that King Mohammed VI has decided that we can reach a final and quick solution, and we also know that Algerians are open to this constructive discussion. This is where the optimism comes from.”

This indicates that the regimes in Morocco and Algeria are complicit in the American colonialist deal, especially given Trump’s use of the Saudi regime as an intermediary to expedite the agreement. Both Tebboune and Mohammed VI received messages simultaneously from Mohammed bin Salman, which some believe were related to mediation efforts to resolve the disputes between Rabat and Algiers. President Tebboune subsequently stated in a speech to army commanders, broadcast in full on Friday, October 10, 2025, “There are some well-intentioned brothers who are asking us to open the borders with Morocco to resolve the Sahara issue. The borders were not closed because of the Sahara issue, but for other reasons. Sixty-three years of independence, and our borders have been closed for more than 45 years.”

This coincided with a change in the tone of political discourse in Algeria and its inclination towards appeasement, as Tebboune confirmed that he had received appeals from those he described as “brothers” regarding the crisis between Algeria and Morocco, which included a request for Morocco to open the borders between the two countries, which would help in resolving the conflict in the Sahara.

What is striking about Witkoff’s statement is his complete disregard for the Polisario Front, a nationalist separatist movement in the Sahara, limiting the problem to Morocco and Algeria, indicating the possibility that the Trump administration has abandoned the Polisario card and is now relying on the capitalist Trump’s strategy of economic and trade deals to break down doors, and uproot locks to penetrate the two regimes directly without the Polisario tool.

As for Algeria and Morocco’s involvement in the Trump deal, their motive is to secure the continuation of the two regimes that are agents of Britain in particular, and their willingness to pay the exorbitant price and the outrageous cost in the hope of a false guarantee of security from American colonialist domination of the region.

Trump’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara, and the disastrous consequences that followed, were devastating for Morocco, including:

- Enabling malicious American capitalism to exploit the Sahara’s resources, especially its strategic rare minerals.

- Penetrating the country’s agricultural sector through hybrid farming, genetically modified seeds, animal feed, and livestock by American capitalist monopolies, and seizing rare Moroccan fruits like prickly pear and the argan tree, monopolizing them in the cosmetics industry, in addition to the marine fishing project and the monopolization of certain seafood products, among other disasters.

- Most dangerous is America’s planting of its colonial military command for Africa, United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM), in the heart of Morocco. It is now finalizing its relocation to Morocco. The Hespress website, the mouthpiece of the regime, reported that Morocco “nominated several cities to host it, such as Laayoune, Dakhla, Boujdour, and Agadir. However, the Americans showed a preference for Kenitra or Ksar El Kebir for historical, technical, and logistical reasons, including the presence of a former American airbase in Kenitra and their desire to expand its runways to accommodate large military aircraft requiring specialized equipment.”

The United States Africa Command (USAFRICOM) base will serve as the largest base for the American colonialist in the west of the Muslim countries and in the heart of Morocco, and with it, America will accept nothing less than complete loyalty and subservience to it, which means that the country is on the mouth of a colonialist volcano, and it will not be long before it explodes!

Even more shameful is the normalization with the occupying Jewish entity and the subsequent political, economic, and cultural Zionization, along with complicity in and support for the annihilation of Gaza.

As for the regime in Algeria, with the arrival of the American colonialist at Algeria’s eastern and southern borders, via the Sahel countries in the south that America wrested from the French colonizer, and then its penetration into Libya through its agent Haftar, the regime has been caught in the jaws of American colonialism. This has facilitated its blackmail and its involvement in Trump’s colonial deal.

Trump’s America and its peace, laced with colonialist cunning, after seemingly discarding the Polisario Front as a spent tool and removing it from its calculations, seek to plunder the Sahara for its companies, establish a base for its armies, and use it as a gateway to Africa for colonialization and penetration of all the Maghreb countries. It brings in the regimes of treachery and shame in Morocco and Algeria as witnesses to the insidious nature of its deal! Our ongoing misfortune is that as long as these regimes that are agents of colonialism remain in place, we have nothing but regimes of harm and agents whose rulers are guardians of the idols and false gods of colonialism.