Opinion | West Side Stories: As Rabat Deepens Ties with Tel Aviv, Algiers Breaks with Abu Dhabi

When Nicolas Sarkozy, then president of France, visited Tangier on 23 October 2007 to promote his proposed Union for the Mediterranean, he invoked Morocco’s history of protecting Jewish communities as an example of the shared heritage that could underpin Mediterranean cooperation. “Throughout Europe, Jews were being persecuted, while here in Morocco, they were protected,” he […]