Response of an Algerian Patriot to U.S. Congressman Joe Wilson

Congressman Joe Wilson celebrates the return of “democracy” in Syria. D.R.

An individual of dubious stature, namely Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, funded by AIPAC and belonging to what everyone now calls the “Epstein administration,” born of that neoliberal West whose degree of decay the Epstein files have laid bare, dares to meddle in Algeria’s internal affairs by issuing a peremptory statement on his X account—hailed by the entire Bousbir-style “press”—which reads as follows: “We must encourage peace between Morocco and Algeria, which could help drive war criminal Putin out of North Africa… There is no solution for Algeria other than to rid itself of the communist terrorists of the Polisario who destabilize Morocco and attempt to establish a Marxist state in the desert, and instead support the just autonomy solution for the Sahrawi people. If you abandon your war criminal buddy Putin, the Iranian terrorist regime, and the tyrant Kais Saied, there could be a bright future for Algeria and its incredible people!”

The Polisario destabilizes Morocco? Indeed? Morocco occupies the territory of Western Sahara, and you accuse the Polisario? When you fought the British during your war of independence, were you terrorists? Why is what is valid for you not valid for others? The Polisario is fighting to reclaim its territory, just as the Palestinians struggle for their land. Stop your variable geometry, your double standards. Stop your hypocrisy. Algeria supports the principle of peoples’ self-determination. Period.

I know you, U.S. imperialists. I have written for the American press and was a founding member and volunteer editorialist of the American website American Herald Tribune, against which a smear campaign was mounted and which was shut down by the FBI. Nothing less. You persecuted the site’s director, Anthony Hall, for alleged antisemitism until he was dismissed from the university where he taught, and you targeted the entire editorial team because the site published contributions from many writers who denounced your imperialism. I remember that fake CNN journalist—yet real CIA agent—Donie O’Sullivan, who sought to question me about the origin of the site’s funding, accusing it of being financed by Iran. It was fake news, as you know how to manufacture, in order to close down a platform that troubled you. I therefore experienced firsthand what your “democracy” is capable of. I cite this episode because it perfectly illustrates your rogue state’s behavior toward free and just voices, and to remind you that you have no lessons to give Algeria.

Indeed, we have neither lessons nor advice to receive from you, Mr. Wilson. Algeria is a great country, and I remind you that at the proclamation of U.S. independence, a distinguished Algerian was present in the hall. I am sure you did not know this, as Americans are reputed to be poor students of history. I almost called you Charlie, because you remind me of that U.S. senator who defended terrorists in Afghanistan and went to great lengths to supply them with weapons. Your country created Al-Qaeda and ISIS, supported them, financed them, and armed them. One need only listen to Hillary Clinton’s statement on April 23, 2009, in Washington, D.C., before a House Appropriations subcommittee: “…the people we are fighting today, we funded twenty years ago…” and read her emails. Today you are mired in a gigantic scandal, and I will return to the details of this Epstein affair, which reveals the degree of putrefaction your system has reached. For that reason alone, you should keep quiet and refrain from meddling in the affairs of sovereign states that have not soiled themselves in the septic pit in which you all wallow.

Now, Mr. American, I will give you a lesson: the Polisario is fighting for its territory. It fought bravely against the Spanish and then against the Moroccans, and this land, now occupied by Morocco, belongs to the Sahrawis, whether you like it or not. Moreover, you should perhaps coordinate your positions and decide where you stand. Indeed, your president’s envoy, Massad Boulos, thanked Algeria for its position on the Western Sahara file. Algeria supports a just cause—that of the Sahrawi people—just as it supports the just cause of the Palestinian people, while your main donor, AIPAC, actively participates in the genocide carried out by an army of degenerate Zionist criminals. Unlike you and your kind, Algeria has principles, and your Founding Fathers—from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson—knew our nation well. Jefferson, who traded in tobacco, described us as brave. Do you know the anecdote about Thomas Jefferson’s Barbary livestock? I am sure you do not. The ties between Algeria and the United States do not date from today. Go to Iowa and visit the town of Elkader, and learn who the great statesman Abdelkader was. You have no statesmen in the West—only petty politicians doubled as shopkeepers.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the president your CIA assassinated with the help of Israeli intelligence services, was the first to congratulate Algeria after its victory over French colonialism. His wife, Jackie Kennedy, insisted on welcoming our first president, Ahmed Ben Bella, in the White House gardens during his visit to Washington in October 1962. She was accompanied by her young son John Jr., outside of protocol, because she wanted to meet that great charismatic man, as she said. You do not even know your own history—what are you doing commenting on ours? The intellectual level of American politicians has shrunk to nothing, and you have contaminated your European vassals, whose stupidity and ignorance match yours. It is a catastrophe. Only your bank accounts perform well. For the rest, it is devastation. Poor peoples who still believe in this Epsteinian “elite.”

You ask us to abandon our friends whom you label “criminals” and “terrorists,” citing Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Iranian government, and Tunisian President Kais Saied. We wonder in what sense they are criminals or terrorists. And what if you stopped supporting the real terrorist and criminal al-Joulani, a virtuoso of throat-slitting? What if you cut off funding and arms to war criminal and genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu? Of course you cannot, because you are tied to Zionism, an ideology that is also American, and because the Zionist Jewish lobby directs you and Israel colonizes you. What future do you envision between you and us? You flatter us by calling us an incredible people in order to deceive us, but do not believe Algerians are naive. They have seen worse.

According to you, we should abandon even our military ties with Russia—ties that date back to the Soviet Union and run deep—in order to favor the United States, which supposedly has so much to offer us economically and militarily. Really? Like you have done with other countries? What military aid would you provide? The kind you provided to Mubarak? The kind you provided to naive leaders who believed in you during the so-called “Arab Spring” and were swept away by the storm you unleashed? Learn this: the one who hides behind America is naked. We have a strong army that genuinely fights terrorism, unlike you, who finance and support it to destabilize states. You are behind every dirty trick on the planet, with your European lapdogs. Where were you when our people were being slaughtered by the GIA? Did you not host Anwar Haddam in Washington, a few hundred meters from the White House, for years? While we were dying, there was no America—nothing. We fought terrorism alone. And we continue to fight it.

Come now, Mr. Wilson, we understand that you are nothing more than one of the system’s many servants, like your commander-in-chief, who serves the interests of big capital, the Zionist lobby, and the military-industrial complex. You are merely a pawn on the chessboard. Before speaking of Algeria—a millennia-old land, a great nation—have the courage to look at your many crimes, massacres, and genocides, dating back to your country’s birth and never ceasing. You recently kidnapped the elected president of a sovereign country and his wife before the eyes of the world. You finance and arm your Zionist alter ego to eradicate the Palestinian people on their own land. You participate in the massacres of the Syrian, Lebanese, Yemeni, and Sudanese peoples. You massacred the Iraqi, Vietnamese, Korean, and Laotian peoples. And more. You threaten the Iranian people, seek to starve the Cuban people with an inhumane blockade, and subject the Venezuelan people to your will. You call this politics? We call it terrorism.

Let us speak of your policy toward Latin America. How many dictators have you supported? How many coups have you financed? Elsewhere in the world, how many leaders and politicians have you overthrown or assassinated? Mossadegh, Allende, Lumumba, Che Guevara, and so many others. You sought to destabilize my country but failed. I once wrote an article about Kissinger and exchanged words with him. He said one could not allow a socialist state to exist in the South. That was his idea—not yours, nor that of Narco Rubio, the Miami dealer who urges European lapdogs to recolonize the countries of the Global South to thunderous applause and standing ovations in Munich. Moreover, you are plagiarists. I told Kissinger what I thought of him while he was alive, without gloves, and it was a satisfaction. Today I tell you and your masters that the great Algerian army has the means to close the Strait of Gibraltar and reconnect with its past, when its Barbary ancestors ruled the Mediterranean. Go to a library and learn about the epic of the Algerian navy and the Rayass el Bhar—Raïs Mourad, Raïs Hamidou, and many others.

Your country is not a democracy and has nothing to offer Algeria. You are in full decline, your empire collapsing on all sides—that is what makes you so aggressive. You are led by a mentally unfit man and a caste of corrupt individuals and pedophiles. Your depravity is displayed throughout the Epstein files. You will never bury this scandal nor recover from it, even if you refuse to publish the millions of other documents. So deal with your own cesspool and leave Algeria alone. It knows who its friends and enemies are. We have win-win state-to-state agreements and know which states to deal with to preserve our interests.

As for the Sahrawi people, Algeria has saved many lives by accepting Sahrawi refugees on its soil in Tindouf, protecting them from criminals such as General Dlimi who was crushed into a pulp and Hassan II, your servant. And you ask us to befriend the rogue entity of Morocco—the rump state of France, the United States, and Israel? This archaic kingdom, a land of debauchery and prostitution in all its forms, including child exploitation, where Epstein had access alongside Jack Lang? You ask us to befriend the Zionist entity of Israel? We know you receive envelopes from the Makhzen with your friend Rubio, but sing your song elsewhere, Mr. Wilson, and stop mixing coke and whisky—it is bad for your health. As for the Bousbir “press” praising you for increasing pressure on Algeria, they should stop deluding themselves as well. Algeria accepts no pressure. Sorry to disappoint you.

The Sahrawi people fight for their independence. The Western Sahara issue is listed at the UN as a decolonization case, whether you like it or not. The terrorists are your friends Netanyahu and al-Joulani, and all the terrorist hordes you have always supported. We will all depart one day, but Algeria—the land of the Braves, of the Numidian kings Massinissa and Jugurtha—will stand and resist all pressure. We ruled Rome—show respect. One does not speak to a great country in this way. No paternalism with us. We do not permit it. Go sip your whisky and mind your affairs, which are far from glorious. Algerian patriots are vigilant and will respond each time you cross the bounds of decency. Cease your arrogance. Our history is far older than yours, which began yesterday. You have no history; your only heroes are Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Algeria is a civilizational state whose great history reaches back to Antiquity. Keep that in mind.

The first revolution is when you change your mind, Mr. Wilson.

Mohsen Abdelmoumen

Published in French in La Nouvelle République and Algeriepatriotique