Despite President Donald Trump’s pledge on September 23, 2025, to seven Arab and Muslim leaders that he would block “Israel’s” annexation of the West Bank, the reality on the ground tells a different story.

Moroccan critics warn that normalization with “Israel” threatens the country’s sovereignty, identity, and social cohesion, sparking widespread outrage.

In a twist laden with irony, Morocco’s former higher-education minister Abdellatif Miraoui has re-emerged not in government but at the lectern of a French university, only weeks after leaving office.

Amid the Israeli aggression on Qatar, urgent questions arose over Washington’s complicity and whether the Gulf states that normalized relations would go so far as to cut ties with the Israeli Occupation in defense of the Gulf system and its much-touted unity.

While innocent civilians in Gaza are being bombed and the besieged Strip is reduced to rubble, some Middle Eastern regimes have chosen not to side with the victims of aggression—but instead to deepen partnerships with those funding the Israeli Occupation.