Washington DC, Feb. 13 -- While it is unclear whether Mr. Bourita choose purposely to give an interview about the war in Yemen to a Qatari owned media outlet, it is hard to believe that the Foreign Minister ignores the optics of criticizing Saudi Arabia on Al-Jazeera.

For the Moroccan public, the fact of the matter is, news of their country's decision to leave the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen and to recall its ambassador to Saudi Arabia came from foreign news outlets, while domestic organizations were left out in the cold.

Morocco spends thousands of dollars in tax payers' money to subsidy a national news agency, the Maghreb Arab Press, a national news channel, Al-Akhbaria, and the semi-private news channel Medi 1 TV that broad...