Peace Agreements between Israel and Morocco: The Wisdom of a King
by Pierre Rehov from The Gatestone Institute
"30 years is long enough to place ballot boxes." — Sami Gailani, blaming the UN for the conflict in the Western Sahara that had been frozen for 30 years; Euronews; November 17, 2020.
"There is no Sahrawi people as there is a French, American or Moroccan people," stated the political scientist Alexandre Greenberg. "The only institution that claims to represent the Sahrawi people is the Polisario Front, a Marxist guerrilla group armed by Algeria."
Through these agreements, stemming from the Trump doctrine, which redraw the map of an Arab world more united in the face of Iranian threats and Turkish ambitions, a modern myth is shattering -- that of "international law" represented by the false omnipotence of the United Nations.
The agreement forged by His Majesty King Mohammed VI and the United States is a feat of great statesmanship -- a firm diplomatic triumph for peace in the Middle East.
In December 2020, Morocco became the fourth Arab-Muslim country -- after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan -- to announce the normalization of relations with Israel, including direct flights from Tel Aviv to Rabat.
The relationship between the two countries has long been rooted the large number of Jews who had lived in Morocco before and after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Moroccans who immigrated to Israel in the two decades following its establishment became one of the most important components of the new state's population. Today, they and their descendants comprise nearly one million people, whom Morocco's King Mohammad VI can consider distant supportive sympathizers.
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