Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 32)
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Morocco
King Hassan Hosts Knesset Members
Moroccan King Hassan sponsored a conference for Moroccan
Jews on May 13-14 in which Zionist delegations from Europe,
Canada, the US and ‘Israel’ participated. Forty Israelis arrived in
Morocco including 11 Knesset members from the ruling Likud coali-
tion, the Labor Alignment, and the Tami party. Israeli journalists and
university professors also attended. Some members of the Israeli
delegation were not Moroccan Jews.
What lies behind King Hassan’s
sponsorship of the conference has
dangerous implications. Ostensibly, the
conference was held to commemorate
the Jewish philosopher Moses Ben
Maimoneid. But statements made at the
conference by Likud and Labor Knesset
members and the character of the cover-
age given by the Israeli press indicate
the over-riding political nature of the
conference. The meeting coincided with
the Israeli election campaign and is con-
nected to the inclination of Arab reaction
to pursue a cCapitulationist settlement of
the Arabic-Israeli conflict at the expense
of the Palestinian people. King Hassan’s
motivations in this have been very clear
from the beginning. He has a long his-
tory of treacherous political stands and
practices towards the national cause of
the Arab people and in_ particular
towards the people of Palestine.
At first sight, one might think Moroc-
can sponsorship of a Jewish conference
with Israeli participation is normal and a
step towards stemming Jewish-Arab
hostility. Morocco itself has an indigen-
ous Jewish community and sponsoring
the conference might be seen as an
attempt to organize the internal affairs of
Moroccan Jews. Had this been the pur-
pose of the conference, the whole
undertaking would have been legiti-
mate. But participation of the official
Israeli delegation raises serious ques-
tions not the least of which is the histori-
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cal problem of Zionists casting a shadow
over the national loyalty of Moroccan
Jews. Israeli participation in the confer-
ence made it appear that Moroccan
Jews have more loyalty to ‘Israel’ than to
their own country.
Although meetings between King
Hassan and Zionist leaders are not new,
this is the first time that he has officially
and publicly received an israeli delega-
tion. In 1970, King Hassan met with
Nahum Goldman, president of the World
Jewish Congress. In 1969, he met with
the current Israeli President, Chaim
Hertzog, who was then an army general
sent on a secret mission to Morocco. In
1976, former Israeli Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin was indulged with a special
Moroccan flight from Paris to meet with
King Hassan.
King Hassan, the godfather of
Camp David
King Hassan played an important
role in the Camp David capitulation. In
May 1977, Sadat met with King Hassan
in Rabat after King Hassan had first con-
ferred with Shimon Peres who was
expected to win the upcoming Israeli
elections. Peres lost the elections and
instead Begin became prime minister.
But Begin also did not hesitate in using
King Hassan as an intermediary with
Sadat. Upon coming to power, Begin
sent information to Sadat through Has-
san alleging a Libyan conspiracy against
Egypt. Sadat dispatched the head of the
Egyptian military intelligence to Rabat to
meet with the head of the Mossad. The
result was Egyptian military attacks
against Libya.
King Hassan received former Israeli
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan in Sep-
tember 1977 to prepare for Sadat’s visit
to occupied Jerusalem and the eventual
signing of the Camp David capitulation.
In Morocco, Dayan held direct negotia-
tions with Sadat's special envoy, Has-
san al-Tihami.
As a leader of Arab reaction and an
agent of the CIA, King Hassan seeks to
implement the policies of US
imperialism and Zionism in the Arab reg-
ion. Besides betraying Palestinian
national rights, the Moroccan regime is
involved in reactionary attacks against
the Polisario National Front in the West-
ern Sahara. There have been joint US-
Moroccan military maneuvers on Moroc-
can soil. Hassan has attempted to join
the forces of Zionism and Arab reaction
under US hegemony. He advocates a
policy of intermarriage between what he
calls the Zionist «super-mind» and Arab
money. Despite the aggressive and
racist nature of Zionism, King Hassan
would like to see the establishment of
normal relations with ‘Israel’ at the
expense of the legitimate rights of the
Palestinian people. King Hassan’s
brand of mediation and indeed the
Camp David accords themselves led to
a new form of domination over the Egyp-
tian people. Much the same results can
be expected if this kind of ‘mediation’
succeeds in dragging some Palestinian
elements into the swamp of negotiations
with ‘Israel’.
Behind the Moroccan Jewish con-
ference is a larger aim. It is part of the
preparations by Arab reaction to pursue
the path of settling the Arab-Israeli con-
flict in line with US plans in the region.
With elections this year in both Israel
and the US, 1984 has been designated
as a period for shuffling the cards and - هو جزء من
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