John Bolton's Defense of Gaza's Siege and Starvation Exposes Algeria's Double Standard

Morocco World

4 days ago

Rabat – Hypocrisy has become a lifestyle for many political advocates who once allegedly claimed to be justice crusaders, but have in recent weeks revealed their true colors by either justifying Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza or blaùing Palestinians for the hell Israeli forces have brought to their lands and homes.
Former US National Security Advisor John Bolton is one such advocate. Indeed, Bolton's recent remarks amid Israel's genocidal war suggest that he is either desperate to appease President Donald Trump, or his earlier claims in support of self-determination were bogus and politically motivated.
In his latest remarks in an interview with The Hill, Bolton spoke unapologetically in defense of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), slandering the resistance movement Hamas and clearly suggesting that he has no sympathy for suffering and murdered Palestinians.
The people of Gaza 'will never enjoy freedom or have any hope for the future unless the 'cancer' of Hamas is dealt with,' Bolton said in the interview .
He also accused Hamas of blocking the distribution of aid, defying the well-documented conclusion that Israel's genocidal war tactics, including the weaponization of starvation and the indiscriminate targeting of Palestinian homes and civil infrastructures, are the chief culprits for the deepening of the Palestinian plight since October 2023.
In what appeared to be a verbal maneuver to appease Trump's administration and Israel, Bolton also shared a one-sided narrative regarding the US withdrawal from the ceasefire talks in Doha.
The main reason for this American move is that Hamas 'has just been operating in bad faith,' he claimed. 'But this decision by the administration, I think, is right, and I think it underlines the dilemma that people trying to understand what's happening in Gaza face is that Hamas is not taking responsibility, and it's not just on the hostage exchange issue. But it is on this humanitarian ad question too.'
Converging reports by UN bodies, independent NGOs, and even the leading Israeli right advocacy B'Tselem have strongly denounced Israel's well-documented war crimes in Gaza. Yet Bolton's remarks come to confirm both the double standards of Western political elites and the subtle — and sometimes overt — complicity of Western powers with Israeli crimes.
In 2006, Bolton, then US ambassador to the UN, defended Israel's military assaults in Lebanon.
CNN quoted him back then as saying: 'What Israel has done in response is act in self-defense… I don't know what the argument about proportionate force means here.'
In 2005, Bolton again criticized the UN's treatment of Israel, calling it a 'fantasy.' Algeria is turning a deaf ear
Notably, when Bolton publishes an op-ed or makes a televised statement to challenge Morocco's territorial integrity, Algerian state media and mouthpiece press are often the first to report on his words, glorifying his remarks while celebrating him as a 'champion of self-determination.'
Algeria's regime and media also gleefully amplify his claims as they align with Algeria's narrative in support of the Polisario Front and against Morocco's sovereignty over its southern provinces in Western Sahara.
However, when Bolton speaks of Gaza and resistance movements like Hamas, the same Algerian regime falls silent.
In response, Algerian journalist Oulaid Kebir has slammed the Algerian regime's double standard, as well as the silence of mouthpieces for their silence.
'This is what John Bolton – the darling of the Algerian military regime and its American-aligned media- wrote about the war of extermination and starvation in Gaza:' For years, even before October 7, 2023, Hamas has used its ability to control the distribution of food, medicine and other aid for years to enhance its position of control in Gaza,'' Kebir said.
He then questioned the silence of outlets like Echorouk Online, which is always quick to publish Bolton's remarks on Morocco's southern provinces in Western Sahara.
'Where are your pens that claim to defend the resistance?' Why don't you criticize him now? Ah, right, because he supports the Polisario? Where are you, Algerie_APS?' the analyst added, referencing the Algerian news agency.
He concluded his new brief remarks on the situation, stressing that this strange silence of Algeria's media mouthpieces is 'proof of your hypocrisy and double standards.'
Kebir concluded, 'The Palestinian cause doesn't matter to you – not even those misled and trapped in the Tindouf camps. To you, they're all just fuel for your fire of hostility toward Morocco.'