Israel and Morocco Stand to Gain from Ties as U.S. Recognizes Moroccan Claim to Contested Territory
Israel and Morocco Stand to Gain from Ties as U.S. Recognizes Moroccan Claim to Contested Territory
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The December 10 announcement of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel marked the fourth Muslim-majority nation in the past four months to officially “friend” Israel. But it was different from September’s historic Abraham Accords linking the Jewish homeland with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and different from October’s normalization agreement with Sudan.
Dec 15, 2020
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The December 10 announcement of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel marked the fourth Muslim-majority nation in the past four months to officially “friend” Israel. But it was different from September’s historic Abraham Accords linking the Jewish homeland with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and different from October’s normalization agreement with Sudan.
“Morocco and Israel have been on the same side geopolitically for decades,” said Tel Aviv University Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, associate professor of Middle Eastern and African history and senior researcher at the university’s Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies.
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