US-Morocco Tensions Rise as Pompeo-King Mohammed VI Meeting Canceled

"Incompatibility of schedules", "time difference". The reasons that the US State Department cited to justify the cancellation of the meeting between Mike Pompeo and King Mohammed VI are far from reflecting the truth. This is what a well-informed source confided to Hespress.

Rabat’s refusal to recognize "the State of Israel" would rather explain the cancellation of the meeting or even the shortening of the US Secretary of State’s visit. The announcement of the discussion on the normalization of relations with Israel at the royal palace had raised hope. Israelis and Americans were already counting on the advancement of the deal of the century.

Mike Pompeo’s meeting with outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of his visit to Morocco, the statement from Nasser Bourita’s department that did not address the situation in the Middle East, are, according to the same source, all facts that presaged an imminent cancellation of the meeting between Mike Pompeo and King Mohammed VI.

It could not have been otherwise, since King Mohammed VI, president of the Al Quds Committee, has always defended the Palestinian cause and the rights of the Palestinians. Washington will have to "compete" in strategy to succeed in this diplomatic coup. As for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the downward spiral continues.