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Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said this Sunday in an interview with the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth that relations between Morocco and Israel were “already normal” before the agreement to establish relations, announced on Thursday by the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
“From our point of view, we are not talking about establishing relations because the relations were originally normal. We are talking about resuming relations between the two countries as they were before, because the relationship has always existed,” Bourita said in the interview with the newspaper. , which is among the best-selling Hebrews. It never stopped. “
On Thursday, outgoing US President Donald Trump announced his country’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, the disputed former Spanish colony, and the agreement to establish relations between Morocco and Israel, which was also well received. by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Since Saturday, the United States adopted a “new official map” of Morocco that includes Western Sahara, whose sovereignty has been disputed for decades in Rabat, and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front separatists.
Morocco, which established formal relations with Israel in the late 1990s after the Oslo agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis, is the fourth Arab country this year to announce an agreement to normalize relations with the Hebrew state, after the United Arab Emirates. States, Bahrain and Sudan.
In the interview, Bourita emphasized that “the relations between Israel and Morocco are distinctive and cannot be compared with the relationship that unites Israel with any other Arab country.”
He added that “Morocco has an important history with the Jewish community, a special history in the Arab world. The king … and previous kings, including Hassan II, respected and protected the Jews. Relations between Morocco and Jews were distinguished, which are not found in any other Arab country.
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