How Morocco and Israel Are Making Normalization Harder to Reverse
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Increased diplomatic representation, exchange of embassies, completion of agreements on investment protection, prevention of double taxation, and resumption of direct flights, as recently agreed by Morocco and Israel under American auspices. What are the reasons for this trend at this particular time? The Rabat decision centres consider that the basis of this relationship has been drawn up by the tripartite agreement signed in [...].
How Morocco and Israel Are Making Normalization Harder to Reverse
By Mustapha Ezzarghani Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar meets with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita and US United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz. Credits: MFA The most important word to come out of the September 16 Morocco-Israel meeting in New York was not peace. It was implementation. Setting up full embassies, exchanging ambassadors, restoring commercial flights, and hammering out investment and tax treaties may sound like the dull…
Six years after agreeing to normalize their relations, the governments of Morocco and Israel took the decision on Wednesday, 16 September, to open embassies in their respective countries. An evolution that enshrines their rapprochement but is not very popular in Morocco, where opponents intend to mobilize.
A renewed position on normalization with Israel The Secretary-General of the Justice and Development Party (PJD), Abdelilah Benkirane, returned to the issue of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel, while at the same time making it clear from the outset that this matter does not fall within his prerogative, foreign affairs being a sovereign domain. However, he affirmed: "If we work well, the King will eventually close the embassy", bel…
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