Ahmed Charai, from “We are all Israelis” to “We are all Netanyahus”?
It is no secret that writing is a responsibility, and that responsibility increases when it is used to defend positions that contradict universal human rights, and national values. At this juncture, we recall what Ahmed Charai had written a few days ago, which caused an unprecedented whirlwind and may have repercussions not only on the man alone, but on everyone who stood by him or his trench defending Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Galant, so that the man commented on the decision of the International Criminal Court, describing its decisions as “politicizing terrorism”, a position that provoked widespread dissatisfaction, because it was not limited to freedom of expression, but reflected a disturbing shift in values and principles as a whole in the Moroccan, Arab and international press.
Legitimacy and going far in defense and legitimizing the mistake
In his article, Ahmed Charai not only justified the Israeli crimes committed against the Palestinians, but turned himself into something like an undisputed “defending lawyer” or a soldier of the “Golani” soldiers who protect the most controversial and undisputed global criminal figures. Was the Charai aware of what this position means for a people who consider the Palestinian cause as part of their national integral identity? Rather, did he take into account his citizens from Morocco? Or did the calculations of a normalization policy overcome, stigmatizing the profession’s ethics with the shame of obedient normalization?
We are all “Netanyahus”?
Charai has previously raised a similar debate in his famous article “We are all Israelis”, and it seems that he has moved to identify with individuals in the occupation state more than the concerned state, so that he expressed solidarity with Benjamin Netanyahu this time after his solidarity with the state first, a position that will not be easily erased from the Moroccan popular memory. Now a fundamental question arises: Does Ahmed Charai really represent the voice of the Moroccan media, or did he choose to go against the tide in a delicate context without the slightest regard for national, human rights and humanitarian legitimacy? Or does the man have calculations and interests that push him to be brave enough to write beyond borders and in solidarity without the slightest embarrassment?
Media acumen is not at all the desire to win the spotlight by opposing the collective and humanitarian wills at all costs, because supporting a “war criminal” convicted of committing crimes of “genocide” is in fact an attack on truth and rightness and an attack on international criminal in its decisions. Rather, what is worse is to close his eyes to the crimes that have befallen children, infants, unarmed and women, reducing his support to a narrative that lacks formal objectivity, media methodology, rationality, humanity, and rights.
The published article is not just a “slip of the pen”, but a blatant challenge to the popular will and the overwhelming national consensus on the subject, because Moroccans have always supported the “oppressed” Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people, and thus Charai has missed an opportunity to be a voice of wisdom and the victory of media principles at least, and chose instead to be part of a system of extermination that justifies violence, killing, starvation and occupation before and after the battle of the “7th October” (Al-Aqsa Flood), which the world condemns violently and rejects the free people of the world and free voices.
Perhaps it is time for Mr. Charai to realize that defending the oppressed is not an option but a duty, and that it is an obligation and not a compulsion, and that international legitimacy cannot be detailed according to the personal whim of people or countries. Otherwise, it is better for those who produce such outputs, even if they are biased, to know full knowledge and certainty that between desperation in defending criminals and resorting to wise silence, the latter remains more respectful, prestigious and legitimate, instead of joining the media disorientation so as not to say crude media normalization.
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