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The War We Almost Fought for a Crag with Two Goats: the Incredible History of the Perejil Islet Crisis

Summary by Moncloa
The Perejil islet crisis seems to have been taken out of a Berlanga script, one of those stories that had it not really happened no one would believe. That summer of 2002, Spain and Morocco were about to unleash an armed conflict by an uninhabited rock of just fifteen hectares. It seems like a joke, but the tension was very real and put international diplomacy in check for days in an unusual Perejil conflict that we remember today with a mixture…
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The Perejil islet crisis seems to have been taken out of a Berlanga script, one of those stories that had it not really happened no one would believe. That summer of 2002, Spain and Morocco were about to unleash an armed conflict by an uninhabited rock of just fifteen hectares. It seems like a joke, but the tension was very real and put international diplomacy in check for days in an unusual Perejil conflict that we remember today with a mixture…

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Moncloa broke the news in on Monday, September 8, 2025.
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