Morocco rejects normalization with Israel, says the Palestinian cause is a red line
RABAT – Moroccan Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Othmani has stressed his country’s rejection of any normalization of relations with Israel.
“We refuse any normalization with the Zionist entity because this emboldens it to go further in breaching the rights of the Palestinian people,” El Otmani said during a meeting for his Justice and Development Party on Sunday.
He said that the Moroccan king, government and people will always defend the rights of the Palestinian people and Al-Aqsa Mosque in al-Quds, which Israel occupied in 1967.
“These are red lines for Morocco, therefore we reject any compromises in this respect or any process of normalization with the Zionist entity,” he added.
“Any normalization with the Zionist entity encourages it to increase its violations against the Palestinian people.”
The Moroccan stance came while the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on a tour in the Middle East, starting with a visit to the Zionist entity in a bid to give the normalization process between Israel and the Arab countries a push forward. His tour’s second leg is Khartoum.
Morocco supports the two-state solution, with East al-Quds as the capital of a Palestinian state.
Hamda Mustafa