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Thursday’s announcement that Morocco will be the latest Arab country to establish diplomatic ties with Israel should have come as no surprise. Yet, the Palestinians were startled and flabbergasted by the announcement.
Another Arab country, this time Morocco, is ditching the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. The initiative committed all Arab countries – through a unanimous vote – not to establish ties with Israel before the resolution of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Within the past few months, four Arab countries, UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, opted to establish ties with Israel in contravention of the Arab Peace Initiative.