Much has been said about Ceuta and Melilia, but I would like to ask if you (ayoub7) really think that these territories are Moroccan why the regime has never waged a war, or at least order another “green march”, in order to “regain” them, as it did in the Western Sahara case? I will appreciate if you, or whoever may have an answer, would give me a convincing response.

Besides, a compelling fact is that we have never heard that the citizens of these two Spanish enclaves have ever explicitly demanded their return to the “homeland”, or waged a liberation war against Spain. Can you explain this?

The question of Western Sahara (whether you like it or not) has long been established by the UN as a Non-Self-Governing Territory. I hope you know what this means. In case you do not, this means that the entire UN system (whether you like it or not) still considers Western Sahara a territory of which status remains undetermined, because its people have not yet been able to exercise their right to self-determination. What explains this in the realm of world politics is the unarguable fact that no single country in the world recognises Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory. This is a fact.

If Western Sahara is really Moroccan, as you unconvincingly claim, why is the UN Mission present in the territory, including military observers from countries such as the US, Russia, France and China, among others? To my mind, those observers are not there on vacation but on a certain mission, and that mission (as contained in UN resolutions) is to organise a referendum on the undetermined status of the territory. For your information, the regime in Morocco was impelled in the early 1990s to accept their presence and their mission, exactly as it has recently been forced to take its flags off the UN compound in La Aiún. This is another fact.

Your desperate attempt to link the POLISARIO with terrorism is starkly fruitless. Do you think that the CIA and other agencies do not know who is really involved in terrorism? They have more resources to know, and their intelligence has never shown the involvement of the POLISARIO in any terrorist act, despite Morocco’s relentless attempts to depict it as a terrorist group.

As I have argued earlier, the real danger for North Africa at the moment, apart from the well-known active radical groups, is the Morocco’s home-grown terrorist groups, which have been active in the country since the 1990s, including Al-Salafiya al-Jihadiaya, Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqim and Al-Takfir Wa-al-Hijra. These are well-identified groups whose terrorist activities are well-known to international intelligence services.

The undeniable fact that many seem to overlook, however, is that the emergence of these groups is inextricably linked with the deteriorating socio-economic situation of many Moroccans due to years of repression and social and political impoverishment carried out by an inherently dictatorial regime.

This is the compelling truth that is beginning to draw the attention of international community and key decision-makers. Moreover, many people in Morocco proper and Spain have unfortunately felt its devastating consequences. This is another fact.

Your argument will be more plausible if put this way: Bottom-line, any person using some logic will understand that if the people in Morocco are escaping by the thousands [not hundreds] to Europe risking their lives, then there must be a very good reason for that: the miserable life they have been leading under an authoritarian monarchical regime.

You seem unable still to understand that people may have access to many sources of information. Your video talks unimpressively about Saharawi children being sent to Cuba for bla, bla. This is exclusively a Moroccan source, isn’t? The POLISARIO may also have its own videos. What about an independent source, the UNCHR? Tell me what you think?

http://www.arso.org/UNHCRCuba.htm

Indeed, only the truth hurts, John. And the truth is that you and company have no solid arguments to offer, but mere propagandistic discourses that you are eager to parrot in a sickening fashion.