Anti-Israel thunderbolt in the Maghreb, Mauritania religiously prohibits normalization: The ulemas of Mauritania issued a fatwa forbidding normalization with Israel.
Two hundred Mauritanian scholars and imams issued a fatwa on Sunday, January 31, prohibiting normalization with Israel: the relationship with “the usurping entity of the land of Palestine and the occupier of Qods and its environs is prohibited and is in no way permitted. The signatories of the fatwa affirmed at a meeting they held on Sunday evening at Al-Tawfiq Mosque in Nouakchott, “that normalization is full support for the usurping Zionists and all their acts including murder and destruction, and this is not reconciliation.
They called on the government of their country to respect what it had previously announced. Nouakchott had announced that it did not intend to normalize with Israel. It should be noted that Mauritania cut off its relations with Israel in 2009 during the war in Gaza. Israeli and U.S. press sources claimed that Mauritania and Indonesia intended to normalize with Israel.
However, this fatwa comes against the backdrop of a rise in armed resistance in Western Sahara, which all indications are that Mauritania and Algeria are providing military assistance. The Polisario Front bombed the Moroccan-controlled buffer zone of Guerguerat on Saturday evening, January 23rd”. The Saharawi army launched four missiles towards the breach of Guerguerat and its surroundings,” the Saharawi news agency SPS said in a statement, quoting a Saharawi military leader. The statement also reports attacks along the security wall that separates Sahrawi fighters from Moroccan forces in this desert territory disputed since the departure of Spanish settlers.
According to a senior Moroccan official, “there were harassment shots near the Guerguerat area, but it did not hit the road, traffic was not disrupted. In audio recordings that circulate on YouTube, truckers’ testimonies evoke three or four missile shots and having heard the bombings near the gas station at the Guerguerat border crossing. So it’s more than just warning shots. As proof, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that the Zionist regime has sent military advisers and experts, as well as military equipment to Morocco so that the latter can confront the Polisario Front.
The Polisario is a political-military organization in Western Sahara, founded in 1973 as a resistance group with the aim of achieving independence from Spanish colonial rule in Western Sahara. The Israeli website Diplomatico reported, quoting Haaretz, that Israeli advisers and experts were teaching military tactics and plans to their Western counterparts to counter the Polisario Front fighting for the independence of Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is an area of conflict between the Moroccan government and the Polisario Front. After the Spanish withdrawal in 1976, the Polisario established the Arab Democratic Republic of Sahara in the former Spanish colony, opposing Spain’s decision to divide Western Sahara between Morocco and Mauritania.
Morocco insists that it has its own autonomous government in Western Sahara and that there is a local government and parliament under its authority in the region, and that if a referendum is to be held, it should be on the autonomy of the region and not on secession from the Maghreb. But the Polisario Front opposes the plan and calls for a referendum on the fate of Western Sahara. The question of the status of Western Sahara, still considered as a non-autonomous territory by the UN in the absence of a final settlement, has for decades pitted Morocco against Sahrawi independence fighters.
The rapprochement between Morocco and Israel opens the way, if not already done, to Israeli aid to the Moroccan army in many areas, including some particularly dangerous, namely the cooperation of the Israeli spy agency “Mossad” with Rabat revealed by another part of this report. The report also noted that Mossad had bribed senior Moroccan officials, claiming that secret relations between Tel Aviv and Rabat were more stable than those with other Arab countries.
by Basit Abbasi – CCTV