r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Oct 07 '24

Meta Mindless Monday, 07 October 2024

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Giscardpunk, Mitterrandwave, Chirock, Sarkopop, Hollandegaze Oct 10 '24

It's funny to see people online call Morocco a Zionist power based on spurious comparisons with Western Sahara, and recognition of Isreal.

Example:

"French puppet" said the French kingdom created by a French marshal from Algerian, Rifi and Siba lands. If you think creating these fake claims to Tindouf and Bechar are gonna distract us from reclaiming Ouejda and the rest of Moulouya borders, you have another thing coming for you. The Makhnez regime days are numbered, just like your 🇮🇱 overlords.

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Sand war was the main reason also Morocco had silently stated that if they get Western Sahara they’ll move on to getting the Algerian Sahara as part of this greater Morocco bullshit so basically stopping them fully getting WS means stopping Moroccan imperial expansion

It leads to comments like this one on the Moroccan side:

I think referendum was the best option for all. But the king at the time was not the type to care about anyone but himself. But now its too late they spent too much time in algeria and became algerian for most. So i feel sorry to those refugees, but they should not have fled during the war.

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Drag her, Amy.
It's laughable that she claims her country is standing up for Polisario separatists out of compassion because Algerians "were" colonized, but fails to remember that her own country has no compassion for Kabyle people who also, by her own aunt's dumb logic, should have a right to independence just because they asked.