Moroccan Islamist groups, including factions from Prime Minister Saadedine Othmani’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) have strongly condemned Morocco’s recent decision to normalise ties with Israel. The Unity and Reform Movement, which is the PJD’s educational and charitable arm, called the normalisation agreement “deplorable” and condemned “all attempts at normalisation and Zionist infiltration”. Morocco’s announcement that it was normalising ties with Israel came as the US said that it will recognize Morocco’s sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara region, where the pro-independence…
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