After the "map incident" Moroccan political activists demand the cancellation of normalization with Israel

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During a television interview, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map of Morocco without Western Sahara, sparking angry reactions in Morocco that amounted to demands to cancel the normalization agreement with Tel Aviv.

Aws Rimal, head of the Unification and Reform Movement, said, “Reasonable Moroccans know that the Moroccan Sahara will not be defeated by normalization or anything else. The Moroccan Sahara is in its country and the Moroccans are in their Sahara, and any link of normalization to the Moroccan Sahara issue is rejected.”

He added, "Israel has never had a supportive position for the Moroccan Sahara, and even in the tripartite signing there were in fact bilateral agreements, between Morocco and the United States, Morocco and Israel, and the United States and Israel, and we did not know what was in them. The Zionists declare that they had no commitment regarding the Sahara." Moroccan.

He considered that "Netanyahu's provocation is not new. They think that they will provoke us with the desert, and that by coloring it on the map a different color, we will chase after them." He said: "The Moroccan state does not react to these events quickly, but rather works strategically, takes its time, and makes its decisions at the appropriate times. But we hope to see soon the Moroccan state withdraw from all agreements made on the occasion of normalization and reopen the liaison office.”

For his part, Jamal Al-Asri, Secretary-General of the United Socialist Left Party, said that his party from the beginning “considered that Morocco would not reap any profit from the recognition of the Moroccan Sahara by a pariah state and a terrorist and occupation entity,” adding that “everyone who bets on winning our national cause by supporting the Zionist entity is like a "He bets on a mirage."

The leftist politician pointed out that “the Zionist entity is blackmailing Morocco because it voted in favor of the establishment of a Palestinian state and denounced and denounces the massacres and the war of extermination,” considering that “the official Moroccan position is beginning to show signs of change,” and what Netanyahu did “is a message to all the normalizers and all the voices that justified normalization that "It goes back to the voice of the Moroccan people who reject normalization."

These calls coincide with the outbreak of mass demonstrations on Friday evening in 56 Moroccan cities in support of Palestine, denouncing the ongoing war on Gaza, and demanding “dropping normalization.”

Netanyahu's office apologized for using a map that showed the territory of Western Sahara separated from the official map of Morocco, and said that "there was an error in the map that was shown in an interview with the French channel TF1," stressing that "the Israeli government led by Netanyahu recognized all of Morocco's sovereign lands, and all maps." The official in his office acknowledged this and was corrected accordingly.”