While several associations and political parties called for demonstrations throughout Morocco in support of Gaza, several tens of thousands marched on Sunday, December 10 in Rabat to also question the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel, established in December 2020. If the country maintains its diplomatic line, demonstrators called on the authorities to call into question the Abraham Accords.
Never have voices critical of the normalization of relations between Rabat and Tel Aviv been expressed so loudly and with so much popular support. Several associations and political parties called for simultaneous demonstrations in the country: the Moroccan Front in support of Palestine and against normalization, as well as the National Action Group for Palestine.
In Casablanca, Mohammedia, and even Tangier, demonstrators gathered to call for a ceasefire. In Rabat, the capital, a march brought together tens of thousands of people to support the Palestinian people and “their resistance”, denounce “Western complicity” with Israel, and above all, call into question the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel recorded by the signing of the Abraham Accords on December 10, 2020, signed between Israel and several Arab countries, and negotiated by the Trump administration.
The rally in solidarity with Palestine is an opportunity for the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) to denounce this normalization. However, he was a signatory to the agreement three years ago.
“The Abraham Accords started by themselves,” argues Driss El-Azami El-Idrissi, president of the party’s National Council. These are agreements with a State that respects nothing because it is a State that is genocidal and considers itself beyond all treaties, beyond all humanity.
The president of the Normalization Observatory Ahmed Ouihmane addresses Moroccan leaders directly: “By signing normalization, you are complicit in the massacres committed by the Zionist army. You must repair this great error because in the eyes of Moroccans, normalization is no longer and its end must be recorded by a responsible and definitive decision.”
For its part, Morocco is staying the course and maintaining its diplomatic line: preserving relations with Israel while calling for a ceasefire and the protection of civilians in Gaza.
