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POLISARIO: Since 1973, the Polisario liberation movement has fought for the independence of Western Sahara and its 650,000 inhabitants. Photo: STRINGER / AFP
US President Donald Trump wrote late Thursday that he signed a declaration recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over occupied Western Sahara.
At the same time, Morocco is normalizing relations with Israel, as a result of the United States recognizing Western Sahara as Moroccan. This is the fourth agreement reached between Israel and the Arab countries in the last four months.
Western Sahara, located south of Morocco on the northwest coast of Africa, has been under Moroccan occupation since 1979. Since 1973, the Polisario liberation movement has fought for the independence of Western Sahara and its 650,000 inhabitants.
The African Union recognizes the Polisario as the authority in the area. Both the Security Council and the UN General Assembly have condemned the occupation.
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Morocco has had one of the largest Jewish populations in the Middle East and North Africa. Many of them fled to Europe and the United States after Israel formally declared their status in 1948.
– Another HISTORICAL advance today! Our two GOOD friends Israel and Morocco agreed on diplomatic relations, a breakthrough for peace in the Middle East, Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
Trump also noted for the occasion that in 1777 Morocco became the first country to recognize the United States as an independent state.
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The other countries that have signed standardization agreements with Israel are the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. Before the agreement with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, only two Arab countries had normalized relations with Israel: Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. Heads of state of both the United Arab Emirates and Egypt showed their support for the agreement on Thursday. normalization between Morocco and Israel.
The Trump administration is also trying to get Saudi Arabia to normalize its ties with Israel. So far, they have not received approval for this.
The new peace accords have angered the Palestinian people. Opponents of the accords believe that the Arab countries are now sabotaging a long-term peace strategy that would require Israel to return land to the Palestinians to be recognized by neighboring countries.
In a telephone conversation with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, Moroccan King Mohammed VI is said to have assured that Morocco is still behind a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his joy on Thursday on the agreement with Morocco. He also praises Trump for his peace efforts in the Middle East.
– President @realDonaldTrump, the Israeli people and the Israeli state will always be indebted to you for your extraordinary efforts on our behalf, he writes on Twitter.
This effort is seen by many as an attempt to build a solid front against Iran and thus deprive Iran of some of its regional influence.
According to the BBC, the Polisario has yet to comment on the United States’ recognition of West Africa as Moroccan.
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