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Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita indicated that relations between Morocco and Israel “were already normal” before the normalization agreement between the two countries. In an interview with the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, he said that from Morocco’s point of view, “we are not talking about normalization because relations were originally normal. We are talking about a resumption of relations between the two countries as before, because the relationship has always existed. It never stopped. ”
Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita announced this Sunday in an interview with the Israeli daily “Yediot Aharonot” that relations between Morocco and Israel were “already normal” before the normalization agreement announced on Thursday by the US president. Donald trump.
In the interview with the newspaper, which is among the best-selling Hebrews, Bourita added: “From our point of view, we are not talking about normalization because relations were originally normal, we are talking about a resumption of relations between the two countries. as before, because the relationship has always existed. Start”.
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 explained: “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. The relations between Morocco and the Jews were distinguished relations that they cannot be found in any other Arab country. “
On Thursday, outgoing US President Donald Trump confirmed his country’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, the disputed former Spanish colony, and of an agreement to normalize relations between Morocco and Israel, which he was also received by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Since Saturday, the United States adopted a “new official map” of Morocco that includes Western desert Rabat, whose sovereignty has been disputed for decades, and the separatists of the Algerian-backed Polisario Front.
Notably, Morocco, which established official 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, Bahrain and Sudan.
While the Israeli political class and press welcomed the agreement between Morocco and Israel, which provides for the establishment of a direct air route between the two countries, the Palestinians condemned it.
France 24 / AFP
