Let the Game-Changing Begin

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Let the Game-Changing Begin

The Morocco-Israel breakthrough: Let the game-changing begin!

December 13, 2020

The Times of Israel

By Jason Isaacson

 

The announcement by King Mohammed VI that Morocco would establish diplomatic relations with Israel, the fourth decision by an Arab government in as many months to normalize ties with the Jewish state, is more than a foreign policy victory for the outgoing Trump administration, although it is surely that.

It is a breakthrough of historic significance on multiple levels.

The Arab country with the oldest and largest Jewish community – as well as the largest Jewish diaspora – has opted for political and economic ties with the Jewish state, itself home to some 1 million Jews of Moroccan descent.

America’s oldest ally in the region is reopening relations with America’s closest ally.

The oldest continuous monarchy in the Arab world, the Alaouite dynasty, is linking its destiny with the Middle East’s one parliamentary democracy.

And King Mohammed VI, chair of the Al-Quds Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, is reaching out in a gesture of peace to Israel, long the target of that committee’s political advocacy.

 

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