Born in Morocco, former Israeli politician and ambassador to France and the United Nations, Yehuda Lancry addressed ties between Israelis of Moroccan Jewish descent and their country of origin. To him, normalization with Morocco depends on the Palestinian question.
Raja Casablanca fans, expected to attend a football match in Palestine, were prevented from entering Al Quds through Jordan by the Israeli occupation. The fans will have to return to Morocco after a series of failed attempts.
On Thursday, Raja Casablanca will play against Palestinian football team Hilal Al-Quds in Faisal Al-Husseini, a stadium in the city of Al Quds. While many see the trip Raja fans will make to Jerusalem as a way of normalizing with the Israeli entity, the Palestinian team told Yabiladi that Moroccan football lovers would not get their passports stamped by the Zionist authorities.
The Trump administration is betting on Morocco to drum up support for the US Palestinian-Israeli peace plan. The latter was at the heart of a «peace breakfast», attended by Jared Kushner, a Moroccan businessman and the vice-president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies.
Israeli newspaper Times of Israel published an article on aid granted by Israelis to isolated villages in Morocco. The newspaper reports that many Amazighs «identify with the modern State of Israel and the Jews».
On Monday, Morocco announced that it is attending the US-led peace conference in Bahrain, expected to introduce the economic portion of the «Deal fo the Century». This decision was denounced by anti-normalization groups, which had urged the Moroccan authorities to boycott the meeting.