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Algeria Gate: Algeria’s decision to sever diplomatic relations with the Emirati mini-state sparked a wave of interaction on social media in the Arab world, where a number of activists, writers, and media figures expressed their support for the Algerian step and directed sharp criticism at Emirati policies in the region.

Among the most prominent reactions, Saudi political analyst Mohammed Abu Ayyad considered that Algeria, after thousands of kilometers, chose to cut its relations with the UAE, noting that the decision came after exhausting all means capable of preserving bilateral relations, and affirming that the Emirati role in a number of Arab countries has become the subject of widespread criticism and that the UAE is an Israeli tool implementing a malicious agenda.

For his part, the Egyptian global producer Amr Waked commented on the Algerian decision, expressing his respect for Algeria and its position, in a post in which he summarized his stance by saying: “We stand in respect for Algeria, the daughter of origins.”

Yemeni journalist Anes Mansory considered the decision “sovereign and a source of pride for every Arab who rejects the UAE’s destructive policies,” and that Algeria practiced a policy of restraint but the sons of Zayed went too far in their satanic hostile acts against Algeria.

In the same regard, Qatari academic researcher and specialist in international relations and foreign policy Abdullah Bandar Al-Otaibi addressed the decision, considering that severing diplomatic relations is not necessarily the end of the dispute between states, but is often preceded by gradual diplomatic measures, affirming that the rupture may raise the cost of the dispute and push toward indirect means of communication.

Other posts also spread linking the Algerian decision to what they described as Emirati interventions in a number of Arab files, recalling Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, and Niger, and considering that Emirati policy in these countries was a reason for the tension in its relations with Arab and regional parties.

A Saudi account went so far as to list a number of countries with which it said the UAE had entered into disputes, before considering that Algeria in turn chose to put an end to relations with Abu Dhabi, in a position it described as a clear message regarding what Algeria considers a crossing of its sovereign lines.

These interactions coincided with other more severe posts against the UAE, describing its regional policy as destructive and accusing it of seeking to influence internal files of a number of Arab countries, and even in the Sahel and Sahara and its intervention in the Niger coup a week earlier, considering that the Algerian decision represents a sovereign response to this policy.

Thus, the reactions circulating in the Arab world reflected a clear state of support from a number of activists for the Algerian decision, in parallel with sharp criticism of Emirati policy and its destructive role in a number of Arab files.

Amar Belani: “Reason and clarity of interests..”Abu Dhabi would do better to keep it for its partners in the Abraham Accords!

Algeria Gate: In a striking article, former Algerian ambassador Amar Belani responded to a comment by the diplomatic advisor to the Emirati president, Anwar Gargash, who was hurt by Algeria’s sovereign decision to sever relations with his country.

Belani, in an article published on his Facebook account, said that this official’s statement is particularly revealing of what he carefully conceals. Not a single word about the actions of this fire-starting and predatory state that thrives on chaos wherever it sticks its nose; in Yemen, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somaliland, and elsewhere. A state that has made destabilizing others its economic model is certainly not in a position to give lessons in diplomatic methodology.

He added that talking about “clarity” and denouncing “puzzles that need to be deciphered” is an exercise in audacity coming from a country that has never taken responsibility for its support of the “MAK” movement, the separatist movement classified as terrorist, nor the protection it provided to fugitives from Algerian justice, nor its active military cooperation with the Tel Aviv–Rabat axis whose anti-Algerian objectives are no longer a secret unknown to anyone.

He continued in the same vein by saying that the ambiguity, in this case, is not on Algeria’s side, but has a name and an address, and that name is Abu Dhabi. In truth, this rhetorical maneuver is nothing but the classic admission of someone who has no answer on the substance of the matter and knows it well.

As for the lesson on “reason and clarity of interests,” the former Algerian diplomat adds, Abu Dhabi would do better to keep it for its partners in the Abraham Accords, with whom it shares complicity in war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide committed against the Palestinian people. It is no surprise, in the end, from a country accused of funding the French far-right party known for its hostility to Arabs and Muslims.

As for Algeria, Belani concludes his striking article, it does not need anyone to explain to it what its interests are. It has just proven that it knows perfectly well how to defend them, and with whom it must stop pretending.

Algeria Gate: Following Algeria’s disciplinary decision to sever diplomatic relations with the artificial Emirati mini-state after a long series of provocations and hostile outbursts, the cyber farms and their media arms have begun moving in a filthy attempt to attack the sovereign Algerian decision that struck the sons of Al Nahyan like a thunderbolt after the barefoot patrons crossed every red line.

Algerian television (ENTV), in a striking video, broadcast screenshots of messages on the Messenger app and copies of telephone orders directed at the Emirati fifth column in Algeria to begin continuous insults against it and attack the unprecedented Arab decision to cut diplomatic relations with the dwarf mini-state by publishing videos of masked Algerians praising and glorifying the godfather of ruin and normalization, Mohammed bin Zayed.

The leaked screenshots documented conversations between an Emirati citizen and an Algerian citizen agreeing to publish videos insulting Algeria in exchange for granting him residency in the UAE. Even more serious is that the conversation images documented plans to smuggle people by private jets; those who carry out its hostile acts and its filthy arms and rotting dogs; from Algeria to the UAE.

It seems that the evil emirate of Abu Dhabi, in all its stupidity, chose its usual filthy style in responding to the decisions of sovereign Algeria, thereby exposing itself and confirming the validity of the accusations issued by the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that it is a hostile and provocative mini-state. This only increases Algeria’s strength and determination to confront any filthy attempt to harm its sovereignty or its people.