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Morocco and Israel forge economic quid pro quo on the backs of Palestine and Western Sahara

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In Morocco, the mobilization against normalizing relations with Israel has never run out of steam in the more than two years of war. While the royal palace maintains its “complicit silence,” the Moroccan Front in Support of Palestine and Against Normalization – a coalition of about twenty left-wing and Islamist parties, unions and associations – has held at least 110 rallies in 66 cities across the kingdom in support of the Palestinians.

At the end of April, tens of thousands marched in Rabat, as well as in the port cities of Casablanca and Tangier, chosen by the organizers to denounce the announced technical stopover of an Israeli navy vessel (never officially confirmed by Rabat) and to “block merchant ships carrying military cargo bound for Israel,” following the renewed bilateral maritime-transport accord signed during the February visit of Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev to Marrakech.

Israel’s second consecutive appearance in the “African Lion 2025” international........

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