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At the same time, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita emphasized that the resumption of relations (which Morocco broke up in 2000) is aimed at paving the way for a Palestinian state. Both politicians were interviewed by Israeli state radio.
Both in Israel and Morocco There is great uncertainty about how President-elect Joe Biden will respond to Donald Trump’s unusual move: recognizing Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara in exchange for Moroccan normalization of relations with Israel.
The American Democrats, despite the country’s close relations with Morocco, have never recognized Morocco’s right to Western Sahara, which was taken in 1975 after a secret agreement between King Juan Carlos I of Spain and King Hassan II of Morocco. Some, but not all of the area’s natives, the Sahrawis, support the Polisario armed movement, whose fragile 29-year ceasefire with Morocco broke out this week.
Israeli political analysts He is concerned that Benjamin Netanyahu, by participating in Trump’s attempts to tie Biden’s hands, is endangering Israel’s position with the new administration. On Friday, the Israeli Institute for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv called on Netanyahu to immediately enter into a dialogue with Biden and coordinate the countries’ Middle East policies, rather than prolonging cooperation with Trump to the last detail. A former Israeli ambassador tells DN:
– Trump wants to go down in history as a president who has renewed the region. But he also wants to embarrass Biden and use us as a refuge against him. We must be careful with that.
During Trump’s efforts To reconcile Israel with various Arab states, Israel has made real concessions only to the UAE: Netanyahu abandoned plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Israel accepted that the US would sell the “invisible” F-35 bomber to the UAE. .
Bahrain received nothing at all from Israel in exchange for normalization, it was pressured there by Trump and by Saudi Arabia. Regarding normalization to Sudan, which has yet to be brought into port, Sudanese leaders acted with one goal in mind: to be removed from the US list of states that sponsor terrorism. Also in the case of Morocco, the hook was American: Western Sahara and the sale of pilotless planes (whose given target is the Saharawi guerrillas).
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