The agreement barely occurs after the normalization of relations between the two countries, while Rabat is cold with its Algerian neighbor.
Le Monde with AFP
One year barely after the normalization of their relationships, Morocco and Israel have taken a spectacular step towards each other, Wednesday, November 24. The two countries have entered into a “unprecedented” safe cooperation framework agreement, during a historic visit to the Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, in full tension between the Kherifian kingdom and Algeria.
m. GANTZ, a former head of the Israeli army, was received at the beginning of the morning by the Deputy Minister for the Administration of Moroccan National Defense, Abdellatif Loudiyi. They signed a Memorandum of Understanding which formally launches security cooperation “in all its aspects” between the two countries, facing “threats and challenges in the region”, according to the Israeli party. “This is a very important thing that will also allow us to exchange our opinions, to launch joint projects and promote Israeli exports so far,” said Gantz.
Before leaving Tel Aviv, Tuesday night, he had mentioned “an important trip to Morocco who has a historical touch because it is the first formal visit of a Minister of Defense [Israeli] in this country “. During this displacement of forty-eight o’clock, Mr. Gantz must also talk, Wednesday, with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita.
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Morocco and Israel had established diplomatic relations in the early 1990s before the first ended the beginning of the second Intifada, the Palestinian uprising of the early 2000s. Now allied in a tense regional context, They returned links in December 2020 as part of the Abraham Agreements, the process of standardizing relations between the Hebrew State and the Arab countries, supported by the administration of the former US President Donald Trump.
On this occasion, Washington recognized the “full sovereignty” of Morocco on the Western Sahara, territory disputed with the Saharawi independentists of the Polisario Front supported by Algeria. Algiers broke his relations with Rabat in August due to “hostile actions” of the Kingdom, while the Polisario Front decided to “intensify” his armed struggle against Morocco. By meeting on Monday in Washington his counterpart Nasser Bourita, the leader of the American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, reiterated the supported support of the United States in Morocco on the question of Western Sahara.
Exports of drones and from Software
The Hebrew State is one of the world’s leading exporters of armed drones and security software such as Pegasus, the NSO Group, which has been the subject of a broad international survey of seventeen media , including Le Monde, which had access to some 50,000 telephone numbers potentially targeted by this powerful spyware, on behalf of ten states. However, sales of armed drones and some advanced technologies, like Pegasus, must be approved by the Ministry of Defense led by Mr. Gantz. Morocco categorically denies having purchased this software and announced that they filed complaints for “defamation” against media that Rabat used it to infiltrate the phones of several national and foreign public figures.
A propaletinian coalition of left parties and NGOs, as well as the Islamists of the Justice and Charitable Movement called to a Sit-in Wednesday afternoon in front of Parliament in Rabat to denounce the normalization of relations with Israel and the Coming to Morocco of the “War Criminal Gantz”, Chief of Staff at the deadly war of the summer of 2014 in Gaza.