U.S. Protects Israeli Occupation, U.N. Reinforces Morocco's in Western Sahara

In: Washington report on Middle East affairs, Band 34, Heft 4

Abstract

It is reported that Washington is trying to persuade the French, in particular, to back-pedal on their attempt to lay down the accepted principles of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. But for once, the Obama administration is not doing this simply as a favor to Israel. It is demeaning, of course, but over the decades not uncommon for American diplomats to plead for forbearance with foreign colleagues so that they can cope with geopolitically illiterate American legislators. Meanwhile, Morocco's continuing occupation of the Western Sahara, with its own separation wall, the Berm, snaking across the desert, continues to get a free pass in Resolution 2218 passed April 28 in New York. While even the US does not insist on praising Israel for its cooperation when it so clearly does not cooperate, the April UN resolution praises Morocco for its progress in the teeth of its flamboyant defiance. Adapted from the source document.