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In a letter to the editor, Richard Cox suggested the Sydney Morning Herald did a feature for a week on Darfur and the terrible state of affair in that region.... I could not agree with you more, Richard ...... And there are many other places in Africa where similar problems have happened and are still happening. For example "Western Sahara" that was liberated by its own people fighting the colonial Spanish in the 1970s were mostly reoccupied by Morocco soon after... Here, Morocco has built a wall longer than the great wall of china dividing that country in a great vertical coastal half for itself and leaving only desert and refugee camps on the border with Algeria for the people of Western Sahara... Now the complicated thing is that Algeria is considered to be mostly a fundamentalist state while Morocco is a moderate Muslim state very friendly with the west. It is an indication that no one cares about these people—not even the great CIA fact book on countries of the world has a reference for that country, except on the map margins of other countries like Morocco... In the fight against the Spanish, Algeria provided weapons to the Western Saharians, including mines of all sorts from personal to anti tank.. throughout the wall which at times is made of 5 or six rows of stone wall, and on either side the site is also peppered with anti-personal mines placed by the Moroccan army... So many people have lost limbs etc... Many people have lived in these border camps since the 1970s and receive food from the UN via a few sources... The other crucial factor is that Western Sahara costal region is full of oil... and... yes we know... Did I forget to mention the manufacturer of the mines?... Yes we know....

of peace and bribes...


by Finian Cunningham
Morocco becomes the latest Arab nation to declare “historic normalization” of ties with Israel in deference to President Trump’s supposed “visionary” peace plan for the Middle East.

In a few weeks, Donald J. Trump is likely to be finally turfed out of the White House as his tenuous legal challenges to the presidential election fizzle and flounder. With an eye on leaving some kind of “legacy,”Trump wants to go down in history as the great peace deal-maker in the Middle East.

The last few months have seen frenetic efforts to get Arab nations to normalize ties with Israel. Morocco this week became the fourth nation to do so, following in the steps of the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Bahrain. (Egypt and Jordan had already done so back in 1979 and 1994.) However, most of the 22-nation Arab League still refuses to open relations with Israel owing to long-standing support for Palestinian national rights.

Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, the supposed brainchild behind the president’s Abraham Accords peace plan, declared that the recognition of Israel by Morocco was another landmark move towards settling the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict over Palestine.

Trouble is Trump’s peace vision comes with a lot of arm-twisting, bribery, and sowing of wider tensions in the region.

Morocco has recognized Israel at a price. The Trump administration induced the move by granting its recognition of Morocco’s territorial claims over the Western Sahara. The area is contested by a separatist group, the Polisario Front, which declares it as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Only a month ago, the group announced the end of a 29-year ceasefire with Morocco. The ostensible peace overture solicited by the Trump administration is thus inciting a war in the Maghreb region which could draw in surrounding countries Mauritania and Algeria, both of which are allied with the Western Sahara’s Polisario Front.

Trump’s “art of the deal” is less about upholding principles of international law and national rights and more about grubby expedience to get to his bottom line. Just as in his former life as a New York City real-estate magnate, it’s all about greasing palms and bending rules to come out on top.

 

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/509417-trump-mideast-peace-morocco-israel/

 

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Washington's recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed region of Western Sahara is a violation of the international law, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Friday.

"This is a violation of international law. There are relevant resolutions, there is a UN mission for holding a referendum in Western Sahara. Everything that Americans currently do is a unilateral decision that goes beyond international law and decisions of the United Nations Security Council's resolution, which Americans themselves supported", Bogdanov told reporters.

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump announced that he had brokered a peace deal between Israel and Morocco and granted the latter the recognition of its sovereignty over Western Sahara, which is contested by the Polisario Front, the movement behind the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

 

Read more:

https://sputniknews.com/world/202012111081429392-moscow-says-us-recognition-of-moroccos-sovereignty-over-western-sahara-violates-intl-law/

 

 

 

assassination....

 

Sahara, nothing works anymore and everything goes.....

 

The murder of Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz and two members of the Sahrawi Army by the Moroccan dictatorship is no coincidence and coincides with the arrival of the UN envoy in the liberated territories.

The drone assassination of three members of the Sahrawi Army by Morocco, including Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz, son of the founder of the Polisario Front in 1976 and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) for 24 years until his death, at which point he was succeeded by Brahim Ghali, has once again drawn international attention to the conflict and the forgotten war of the Sahrawi people.

Another people abandoned to their fate for five decades, following the betrayal by the Franquist government, in its final days, of the Sahrawi people, then Spanish citizens, and of its international obligations to oversee the decolonization process of Western Sahara. An obligation that still weighs on the Spanish state.

Since then, tens of thousands of Sahrawis born in the liberated territories of the desert have been refugees from the day they were born. Among them was Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz himself, assassinated in a targeted drone strike in a demilitarized zone, likely because he was considered the future successor. He is yet another Sahrawi fallen in the struggle for the freedom and rights of his people, but he is also a victim imbued with his own significant political symbolism.

His assassination by the Moroccan dictatorship took place on Sunday, the same day that the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, arrived in the refugee camps as part of a new diplomatic tour.

A punishment of the Sahrawi resistance and an attempt to sever the future of new generations through the alliance between the regimes of Israel and Morocco, which fully embodies the disastrous drift of the current world order, where neither rules, nor laws, nor human rights hold any value in the face of the abuse of violence.

And yet another attempt to circumvent international law and continue imposing an illegal military occupation and colonization, along with the economic and natural plundering of the Sahara's resources. This first Francoist betrayal was followed by all the others, from Felipe González to the scandalous handing over of Sánchez to the interests and demands of the dictator Mohammed VI. Fine words for the Sahrawis, but nothing but bowing and scraping before a corrupt, authoritarian, and terror-mongering regime.

In the Sahara, a war has been raging since six years ago, when the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army took up arms again after a 30-year ceasefire, due to repeated violations by Morocco and the UN's failure to enforce its repeated resolutions in favor of a referendum to uphold the right to self-determination and decolonization of Western Sahara.

This is an unequal war, hidden by the mainstream media. Once again, the commercial interests of geopolitics, imposed in this case by Morocco and the United States with the subservient support of Spain and France, take precedence over international law and human rights. For decades, the Sahrawi people have endured an unprecedented situation of exile, military occupation, and illegal colonization, despite international agreements and UN resolutions. Once again, democracy has succumbed to the disregard for its own rules.

Joseba Santamaria

 

https://www.lahaine.org/mundo.php/sahara-ya-nada-sirve-y-todo-vale

 

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