Hezbollah Leader Slams Moroccan Islamist Party Over Israel Ties

"For me, as an Islamist with an Islamist reference, I consider the position of the PJD in Morocco to be more painful and more dangerous," he said in an interview with the Lebanese channel Al-Mayadine. He calls for denouncing this position even more vigorously. According to him, what is happening does not express the will of the peoples. He thus alludes to the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Arab countries: Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Morocco.

Before the Hezbollah leader, the leader of the Movement of Society for Peace (MSP), the Algerian Islamist party, Abderrazak Makri, had strongly criticized the PJD and its Secretary General, Saädeddine El Othmani. "The head of the [Moroccan] government and Secretary General of the Justice and Development party should feel the most ashamed among the signatories of the agreement because of his betrayal of his principles and his previous position in favor of normalization," he had written on his Facebook account.