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The reactions of political parties and civil society organizations in Morocco were mixed with respect to the announcement of the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel. Several parties close to power were content to welcome the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and their country’s support for the Palestinians on the basis of the two-state solution, without any reference to the issue of normalization. Meanwhile, parties and civil organizations condemned this step, refusing to link normalization with this recognition.
Reactions reached the Moroccan political and civil arena after the announcement Normalization of Moroccan-Israeli relations and Washington’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara. The US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara was widely welcomed, while positions differed on The decision to normalize.
US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Morocco has vowed to normalize its relations with Israel, and his country recognized Rabat’s sovereignty over Western desert. Meanwhile, Moroccan King Mohammed VI told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a phone call Thursday, that Rabat is committed to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stressing that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians are the only way to reach a final, lasting and complete solution to the conflict.
For his part, he said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Morocco, Nasser Bourita In a statement to France 24, that “we must avoid using concepts that are not identical to the Moroccan context … a word of normalization from another context … the Moroccan constitution says that one of the tributaries of Moroccan identity is the Hebrew tributary … and Morocco has recognized Israel since the 1990s, “he added. His country “is using all this in the service of the Palestinian cause on the basis of clearly established principles.”
A tribute to the king’s “support” for the Palestinians
Several parties affiliated with the governmental coalition or close to power focused on Washington’s recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and only praised the Moroccan monarch’s affirmation of his country’s “firm and solidary” stance on the Palestinian cause. .
The head of the Moroccan government and secretary of the Islamic Justice and Development Party, Saad Eddin El Othmani, welcomed in a statement to the Moroccan channel Medi 1 the recognition of the United States of America, the full sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco over Western Sahara, praising the “practical” step of opening a US consulate in the city of Dakhla without referring to the issue of normalization with Israel.
In a post on his official Facebook page, the Secretary General of the Opposition Party for Progress and Socialism, Muhammad Nabil bin Abdullah, welcomed a “historic change on the issue of territorial integrity, with the US recognition of the Sahara Moroccan “, praising the Moroccan monarch’s claim that he” clings to the foundations of our country to support the just cause of Palestine. “
For their part, the youth of the Independence Party, which represents the parliamentary opposition, expressed their “great pride in the content of the telephone call” that the king made with the Palestinian president, who “affirmed the firm position of the Kingdom of Morocco, of the king and the people, and in support of the Palestinian cause through the two-state solution, based on negotiations between the two parties. ” Palestinian and Israeli officials as the only way to reach a final, permanent and complete solution to this conflict. “
“Swap rejected
On the other hand, opposition parties and civil organizations condemned Morocco’s decision to normalize relations with Israel, considering what happened as a “deal.”
The “National Action Group for Palestine”, which includes party, union and civil parties in Morocco, denounced in a statement on Thursday the normalization decision, considering it as “a sudden and distracting step from the general position of Morocco-the State, especially in recent years by refusing to settle the Palestinian issue, rejecting official normalization and rejecting an agreement. ” Century “.
The group’s statement emphasized that “the Moroccan Sahara was liberated, built and developed by the Moroccan people, and does not need to be endorsed by either the Zionists or the Americans to confirm its morality.”
The group expressed its “total and firm confidence in the solidity of the Moroccan popular position with all its components”, calling for “a comprehensive mobilization at all levels to confront the new wave of normalization and protect the memory, location and position of the authentic Moroccans in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle. “
In the same context, the youth organization of the Social Democratic Vanguard Party condemned, in a statement on Thursday, the normalization of Morocco with the Hebrew entity, expressing its rejection of “an attempt to link it to the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, which is not negotiable under any circumstances. justification”. The statement added that the Palestinian question “is a national question, as is the question of our territorial integrity.” The secretary general of the United Socialist Party, Nabila Munib, said that the recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara “must not be based on conditions that the Moroccan state and people cannot bear.”
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