Morocco Reaffirms Support for Palestinian Cause Despite Israel Ties, Foreign Minister Says

"When a country develops a relationship with Israel, does that automatically mean it is abandoning the Palestinian cause? No, Morocco is not abandoning the Palestinian cause," he said in an interview with Le Monde. He emphasized the historic role the kingdom has played in favor of peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, before reiterating Morocco’s position, that of a two-state solution.

"We have principles and a commitment to the Palestinian issue. And we have assets and channels that serve peace in the region: no one else has the experience of coexistence between Jews and Muslims that we have. It is the same logic that allowed Morocco to host the 1974 Rabat summit, which recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] and allowed Morocco to help the countries that wanted peace in the region, including Egypt," added the Moroccan Foreign Minister.