Morocco’s “Justice and Development” announces its position on recent events

Elaf from Rabat: Approximately three days after the publication of the declaration of the Royal Court of Morocco on the issuance of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, a presidential decree, with its firm legal and political power, and with its immediate effect, which requires that the United States recognize, for the first time in its history, the full sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco over the entire Moroccan Sahara region. And the decision to resume official bilateral contacts and diplomatic relations with Israel, the “Justice and Development” party (an Islamic reference), which leads the government, issued a statement that culminated in an extraordinary meeting, on Saturday, of its Secretariat General dedicated to discussing the latest events related to the Moroccan Sahara issue, especially after the issuance of the presidential statement of US President Donald Trump, and based on the data contained in the two statements issued by the royal court, on Thursday, on the two phone calls between the Moroccan monarch and the president of the United States, and between the Moroccan monarch and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority.

Pride and reminder
The party’s statement started from five points, three of which were dedicated to the statement of the President of the United States in his section on Morocco’s sovereignty over its sub-Saharan provinces, while the last two points focused on the part related to the decision to resume the relationship between Morocco and Israel, without giving an opinion on the matter, and only remembering “fixed positions His Majesty the King, president of the Jerusalem Committee in defense of the rights of the Palestinian people,” and the constant positions of the party towards the Zionist occupation and the crimes it commits against the Palestinian people in terms of murder, displacement and aggression against holy places. “

Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara
The first point of the party’s statement recorded its “pride and confidence in the prudent and wise leadership” of King Mohammed VI, and the historic achievements and strategic transformations that “our national cause is witnessing.” And in the second, “considering the US presidential declaration as an important declaration that affirms the sovereignty of Morocco over its southern provinces, opens new horizons to strengthen the Moroccan position in international circles, increases the isolation of opponents of territorial integrity. , and contributes to confront its conspiracies that try to upset it “. In the third point, he emphasized, “the mobilization of the party behind His Majesty the King and his wise leadership to consolidate Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces and support the path of confronting the maneuvers of the opponents of territorial integrity and the achievements of Moroccan diplomacy under the leadership of Her Majesty “.

Morocco and Israel
The party dedicated the last two points of its statement to the part related to the announcement of the resumption of relations between Morocco and Israel. In his fourth point, he limited himself to “pointing out the consistent and continuous positions of His Majesty the King, Chairman of the Jerusalem Committee in Defense of the Rights of the Palestinian People, who confirmed during his call with the Palestinian President that his position is fixed. It changes, and that “Morocco always places the Palestinian question in the ranking of the Moroccan Sahara question, and that the work of Morocco to consolidate its Moroccan character will never be, neither today nor in the future, at the expense of the struggle of the Palestinian people for his legitimate rights, as well as his desire to preserve the special character of the city “. Jerusalem and the Islamic character of the Al-Aqsa Mosque as head of the Jerusalem Committee.”
In the fifth and final point, the part mentioned “the firm positions of the party towards the Zionist occupation and the crimes it commits against the Palestinian people, including the murder, displacement and aggression against the holy places, among which the continuous attacks on the Al-Aqsa mosque and the confiscation of Palestinian lands, and the denial of the right of return in a flagrant violation of all international covenants and decisions. Their relations and the penetration of Islamic societies. “

Silence and hawks
Observers noted that the “Justice and Development” party was silent before its General Secretariat issued its statement on Saturday.
Saad Eddine El Othmani, head of government and secretary general of the party, told Moroccan television channel Uno on Thursday that the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over all its Sahara is a “great achievement”, considering this step ” it will affect the course of the Moroccan Sahara problem for years to come if it is not reported. ” In the next few months. He considered that the intention of the United States to open a consulate in Dakhla, the second largest city in the desert, is a “practical and realistic” recognition.
Othmani did not mention Morocco’s decision to establish a diplomatic relationship with Israel.
However, some “party hawks” criticized the step of “normalization” on “normalization” blogs, including deputy reciter Al-Idrisi Abu Zeid, who called what happened the “next ruin”, wondering: “¿ How if a million Moroccan Israelis have the right to vote under the name of Moroccans of the world? ” ? “
Deputy Amina Maa Al-Ainain, who belongs to “Justice and Development”, wrote a post on “Facebook”, criticizing the attempt to “create a convergence between the issue of the Moroccan Sahara and the Palestinian cause”, considering that this “harms the national cause that cannot be won without dedicating its principle As a just cause. ” He explained that Moroccans “will not abandon the Palestinian people and their just and legitimate demands”, and that normalization will not succeed “in a structure that persistently resists it for decades.”

Surprising announcement
A statement issued Friday by the executive office of the “Al-Tawhid and Reform” movement, which is the defense arm of the “Justice and Development” party, described Morocco’s official announcement that the US president issued a decree. presidential that requires the United States to recognize the total sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco over the entire Moroccan Sahara region. This is reflected in the decision to open a consulate in the city of Dakhla. On the other hand, Morocco intends to resume official bilateral contacts and diplomatic relations with Israel as soon as possible, and to work on the reopening of the liaison offices in the two countries and facilitate direct flights, “surprisingly”.
In its statement, the movement renewed the “principled and affirmative position of the Moroccan Sahara”, pointing out “the national efforts made in defense of the unity and sovereignty of Morocco that do not accept negotiation or blackmail and negotiation”, and considering “the question of Moroccan Sahara as a matter of a nation, a people and a nation. Moroccans made huge liberation sacrifices for their liberation. ” And the advance of its latent conditions. “
On the other hand, the movement affirmed its position “rejecting and denouncing all attempts at normalization and Zionist penetration”, and considered “the measures mentioned above by Morocco, which chairs the Al-Quds Al-Sharif Committee, a regrettable fact and a rejected step incompatible with the position of firm and honorable support for Morocco, which “He always places the Palestinian cause in the range of the question of the Moroccan Sahara, and the material and moral support of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem, the Palestinian resistance and the struggle of the Palestinian people against the usurping Zionist occupation and its heinous crimes. “
The movement warned of “the danger of these announced measures and their negative consequences,” and said that they put Morocco “within the circle of normalization with the Zionist entity and open the door to its penetration into society and the state and its threat to the cohesion of the social fabric and the stability and unity of the homeland “, renewing its” permanent and continuous “commitment to” supporting the resistance. ” The Palestinian people and their struggle to liberate their land, restore all their usurped rights and build their independent state with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital; With the call of the Moroccan people and all the living social forces “to unite and unite efforts to confront the danger of Zionist penetration and to oppose all forms of normalization”, before asking in the conclusion of his statement “the revision of Morocco of the announced measures and the bias towards the historical constants in its dealings with the just causes of vulnerable peoples, among which are the Palestinian cause and Al-Quds Al-Sharif “.