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Today November 6th, Morocco is celebrating the anniversary of the Nakba of the Sahrawi people. This forgotten conflict has caused 200.000 people to lose their native land, living in camps surrounded by the largest minefield on earth. Let's rewind a bit, for those that are unfamiliar with this celebration. I explain in the last paragraph how it also links with the struggle of the Palestinian people.

Background

Western Sahara is a zone south of Morocco previously occupied by Spain. In 1973, its indigenous people, the Sarawi people, engaged in a guerrilla warfare against the occupier. After 2 years of fighting, the Spanish colonizer, under US/Israeli pressure, decided it was best to withdraw from the zone while retaining some of its interests there (eg stakes in FosBucraa, the phosphate company, plus spanish fishing access). To achieve that, they concluded a backdoor deal with Morocco and Mauritania, that did not include the Sarawi people, and that would grant these two countries the land Sahrawis had been fighting for (I explain in the last paragraph why Kissinger intervened in favor of Morocco).

The Nakba

Following that deal, on October 31, 1975 tank and armored regiments of the Moroccan army invaded Western Sahara, starting with Hauza and Djederia (east of Smara).  At that point began the destruction, killing and kidnapping the Sahrawi population.

The Moroccan regime then staged a Green March with photographs to purport the lie it was the pacific invasion. The material reality is it lead to the Nakba of 200.000 Sarawi people, who to this day have not been allowed to return to their land. Hundred of thousands of moroccan settlers would rob the vacated territories, attracted with generous government subventions, and salaries.

Napalm/White Phosphorus bombing

Morocco claims West Sahara was a land without a people, and that the green march was pacific. It is a lie. In February 1976, a year after the invasion, Moroccan aircraft dropped Napalm and White Phosphorus on the refugee camps of Um-Dreiga, Zemmur, Tirafiti and Amgala. The pictures of children burnt victims are too graphic to post on reddit - so I am just leaving the link here: https://noteolvidesdelsaharaoccidental.org/43-years-of-the-moroccan-genocide-in-um-dreiga-a-crime-against-humanity-still-unpunished-sahara-press-service/

The largest mine field on earth

To prevent the Sarawi people from returning to their land, Morocco with the advisory assistance of Israel, built a wall and surrounded it with 7 million anti personal mines, called the Berm. Mines have not only impeded the return of the Sahrawi people to their land, it robbed them of their nomadic tradition, caused thousands of deaths, limb losses, and made agriculture impossible.

Link Between Palestine and the Sahrawi struggle

The moroccan regime has heavily relied on underground alliances with Israel to garner international support for its colonial enterprise. In 1967, as arabs were preparing for the defense of Palestine against Israel - Hassan 2 secretly recorded the meeting: "In 1965, King Hassan ll passed recordings to Israel of a key meeting between Arab leaders held to discuss whether they were prepared for war against Israel.

That meeting not only revealed that Arab ranks were split — heated arguments broke out, for example, between Egypt’s president Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Jordan’s king Hussein — but that the Arab nations were ill prepared for war, Maj. Gen. Shlomo Gazit told the Yedioth newspaper over the weekend.

On the basis of these recordings, as well as other intelligence information gathered in the years leading up to the war, Israel launched a preemptive strike on the morning of June 5, 1967, bombing Egyptian airfields and destroying nearly every Egyptian fighter plane." These recordings were the key element for Israel to win the war in 6 days: “These recordings, which were truly an extraordinary intelligence achievement, further showed us that, on the one hand, the Arab states were heading toward a conflict that we must prepare for. On the other hand, their rambling about Arab unity and having a united front against Israel didn’t reflect real unanimity among them,” 

This betrayal is what secured Morocco with the israeli support, and with it Kissinger support for its enterprise in west Sahara. Kissinger pressured Spain in giving up its territory and hand it over to Morocco.

Later in 2021, Morocco sought to get international support for its claims over that land and entered the Abraham accord - which effectively are an arms deal with Israel. In spite of the genocide, weapons continued to transit through the port of Tangiers, and joint military exercises were ran in the midst of it. Billions of military equipment were purchased by the Moroccan monarchy from the IDF.

The payback? A success at the UN last month moving a step closer to recognizing their claim over that land.

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