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An agreement was announced on the normalization of relations between Israel and Morocco, for the Kingdom to join the Arab countries that took similar measures recently.
Meanwhile, in Morocco, he celebrated having obtained recognition from the outgoing president of the United States, Donald Trump, of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.
Here are some details about the US-sponsored deal between Morocco and Israel.
What do we know about the deal?
The president of the United States announced the agreement on his Twitter account on Thursday.
The White House said Trump and Moroccan King Mohammed VI agreed that “the kingdom will resume its diplomatic relations with Israel, in addition to strengthening economic and cultural cooperation between the two countries to support stability in the region.”
The agreement includes the reopening of the liaison offices in Tel Aviv and Rabat that were closed in 2000 during the Palestinian uprising, and then the exchange of embassies in both countries.
Officials spoke of Morocco’s willingness to allow direct flights to and from Israel for all Israelis.
Thus, Morocco becomes the fourth Arab country, since last August, to agree to normalize relations with Israel, after the Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
The Palestinians consider these steps a violation of promises made by Arab countries not to establish relations with Israel until the establishment of a Palestinian state.
However, the Moroccan monarch said that these measures in no way affect Morocco’s firm stance on the just Palestinian cause.
A royal statement stated that the Moroccan monarch spoke to the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and assured him that he would never retract his role in defending the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, highlighting his support for the two-state solution. .
What about the Western Sahara problem?
The White House said it was agreed that the United States would recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara.
And in a phone call with the Moroccan monarch, Trump confirmed his support for Morocco’s proposal on autonomy in Western Sahara as the only just and lasting basis for resolving the conflict.
Trump described the Moroccan proposal as “serious and realistic.”
In response to the US announcement, the representative of the Polisario Front to the United Nations, Sidi Omar, said that the legal status is determined by international law and UN resolutions.
“The measure indicates that the Moroccan regime is willing to sell itself to maintain the illegal occupation of parts of Western Sahara,” Omar added in a tweet on Twitter.
The Reuters news agency quoted Abi Bachraya, the Polisario’s representative in Europe, as saying that the change in US policy will change nothing about the reality of the conflict and the right of the Western Sahara people to self-determination.
Last month, the front announced the end of a thirty-year ceasefire, following a Moroccan military operation in a buffer zone.
A source in the Moroccan Foreign Ministry responded, telling the BBC that Morocco had not violated the armistice, but what happened was that its forces responded to a provocation by Polisario fighters who cut off one of the main roads leading to Mauritania.
According to the US announcement on Thursday, the United States believes that the establishment of an independent Sahrawi state is not a “realistic option to resolve the conflict, and that autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty is the only possible solution.”
And according to Reuters, the Royal Court of Morocco said Washington will open a consulate in Western Sahara as part of the normalization agreement with Israel to encourage.
The territorial dispute over Western Sahara has been raging for decades between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
How will the agreement affect Western Sahara?
Analysis by Rana Jawad, BBC correspondent to north of Africa
There will not necessarily be a direct impact on the ground from the latest move by the Trump administration; This is because the dispute appears to be greater than the whims of the president of the United States.
However, Trump’s endorsement of Morocco’s position on sovereignty over Western Sahara is an important negotiation that affects the hopes of a people who have been seeking independence for the region for decades.
The United Nations still has the task of overseeing a referendum on the independence of Western Sahara, although this has not been achieved since 1991, when the United Nations launched its mission there.
And like any new independent state, the Saharawi state needs to obtain international recognition, which dissipates with the declaration of the president of the United States of his support for Moroccan sovereignty over the region.
In light of these events, the situation in the region, which has witnessed tensions in recent months, is likely to intensify further.
