Rabat - “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”:
When someone wants to be the first to know who among the Arabs has boarded the normalization train, he no longer needs leaks from the Arab, American or Israeli ministries of foreign affairs. As much as he simply needs to follow US President Donald Trump on Twitter, his tweets have made all the fuss go away.
As happened when relations were normalized with the United Arab Emirates, in August, Bahrain, in September, and Sudan, in October, the Arabs, including the Moroccans themselves, and all their government ministers, discovered the agreement with their country through Trump, via his Twitter account.
A few days before leaving the White House, Trump presented the last strategic gift to Israel, or it is the penultimate one, because the sources do not rule out that Saudi Arabia will also join in the coming weeks what the printers see as “peace” and others see as “betrayal” of the Palestinian cause .
After 11 consecutive years in office, Netanyahu could not boast of signing agreements between Israel and the Arab world, since 1994 with Jordan, without the intervention of Trump and his advisor, Jared Kushner.
And then, as soon as he announced the restoration of relations with Morocco, he addressed him with these words mixed with the smell of farewell: “I want to thank you, for your tremendous efforts to bring peace to Israel and for all the great things that you have done for Israel … We can never forget that.”
Netanyahu leads foreign policy through strategic alliances based on energy with Greece or Cyprus, and with the motive of deterring their common Iranian enemy, he works in parallel in the fields of defense and intelligence with Egypt, Jordan and other countries in the Persian Gulf.
These latter have been refusing to leave the relationship with Israel out of the shadows because of their commitment to the Palestinians.
Four countries are breaking the model established by the initiative of the Arab League in 2002, by not establishing relations with the Israeli occupation, until the establishment of a Palestinian state
Today, four countries are breaking the model established by the initiative of the League of Arab States, in 2002, by not establishing relations with the Israeli occupation, until the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and the Israeli withdrawal from the territories occupied in the 1967 war, which is something that Netanyahu does not want and does not want. Willing to pay for it politically inside Israel.
However, the map of interests of Trump, Israel and many Arab countries shook all of this, and turned the back of the madness on the Palestinians and the Arab League, ingratiating themselves to the American president who prefers Israel as a regional power, and Netanyahu as a politician who may face his fourth elections within two years in March.
Amnon Lord, a political analyst and journalist for the Israel Hayom newspaper, considers: “Trump and Netanyahu have changed the Middle East… On the one hand, the peace agreements with the Gulf states, Sudan and Morocco, and on the other hand, the increasing pressure on Iran and the abandonment of the nuclear agreement.” .
Paving the way
Morocco has cut off doubts with certainty, and its joining the Abrahamic family, which the white man craves, is no longer an issue confirmed by the press at times and denied by the Islamic government led by Justice and Development at other times. on his sovereignty in Western Sahara.
Thus, Morocco becomes the fourth Arab country to normalize its relations with the Hebrew state, joining the ranks of the United Arab Emirates, which announced this in August, followed by Bahrain in September and Sudan in October, which is the normalization that was named according to Trump’s alphabet as “ Abrahamic Accords”.
The Israeli road to Rabat had a price, which was the long-awaited American recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara
This Israeli road to Rabat had a price, which was the long-awaited American recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara, which was opposed by former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and millions of dollars in investments in banking, tourism, alternative energy, and arms deals, especially in drones ( Drone).
Before Trump's announcement, it took two and a half years of contacts between the United States and Morocco.
During the meetings of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2018, Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita met secretly, and Netanyahu's advisor, Meir Ben Shabbat, the Moroccan Jewish businessman Yariv El-Baz, Kushner, and Andre Azoulay, advisor to the Moroccan monarch, also played a key role in the secret meetings. and paving the way.
Mohamed bin Zayed ended up persuading his friend, the Moroccan monarch, to normalize in exchange for the Sahara, justifying that “recognition of Western Sahara is impossible with Joe Biden,” and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave his blessing, according to what was revealed by the Hebrew press.
Prior to this announcement, the Moroccan “National Airports Office” launched a request for special offers for “development and strengthening of video surveillance systems, access control and installation of a security system” surrounding Dakhla Airport, at a value of approximately 44.55 million dirhams ($4.9 million).
According to a Moroccan source who declined to be named, preparing the airport “is a natural matter, as it was necessary to protect the Americans in a city that will host their country’s consulate.”
The source, whom Al-Quds Al-Arabi spoke to, added, “The main goal of developing surveillance systems is kept in complete secrecy, until the official announcement of the opening of the consulate is made.”
The source's words are confirmed by the statement of the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita: "This position came as a result of continuous contacts between King Mohammed VI and the American administration for more than two years, and there was coordination on this issue."
In order to calm the internal criticism of the agreement, and given its special status in the Islamic world, Moroccan King Mohammed VI, in a call with Palestinian President Abu Mazen, affirmed his support for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
Analysts believe that the wave of normalization, which came after decades of somewhat secret relations, is “impossible without the green light from Saudi Arabia.”
In the Moroccan case, cooperation remained close between Morocco and Israel, albeit in secret, before the establishment of official relations in 1995 “after the Oslo Accords,” and after their collapse in 2000, the “second intifada.”
Morocco also hosted crucial meetings between Israel and Egypt that led to the first Israeli-Arab peace agreement in 1979.
In addition to the long-awaited recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, the outgoing Republican administration is committed to investing “$3 billion in banks, hotels, and renewable energies,” according to The New York Times.
Reuters also revealed the agreement to sell four next-generation drones to the Kingdom, which will await the final green light from Congress.