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Africa North
Morocco 'may nab top Israeli officials'
2010-07-13
Top Israeli officials might be arrested if they come to Morocco due to Tel Aviv's 2008 attack against Gaza, according to a legal bid launched by a group of lawyers.
Learning from the Brits and Belgians, are they ...
The kings of Morocco claim direct descent from Mohammed through his daughter Fatima. They like their Jews productive, loyal, and submissive to the Master Religion.
That's how it worked in al-Andalus, and for several centuries ...
The current king has Jewish advisers, and supports Jewish schools and synagogues. He even extended an invitation to his former Jewish subjects to return, which they have not done, the ungrateful things. Since 1948 over 90% of Morocco's Jews have emigrated; 1,000,000 of their descendants live in Israel, where they are productive, loyal, and not in the least submissive.
"The complaint is against Israeli officials who led the attack against Gaza at the time," a spokesman for the lawyers, Khalid Soufiani, told AFP on Monday.

The complaint accuses former premier Ehud Olmert, ex-foreign minister Tzipi Livni and incumbent Defense Minister Ehud Barak of breaching laws to protect civilians, Soufiani said. Once the prosecutor accepts the complaint, those named will face arrest if they come to Morocco, he added.

"We don't know if the chief prosecutor will accept our complaint and follow it up," said Soufiani. The group who filed the complaint includes one French lawyer, one American and three Moroccans.
A socialist, a moonbat and three Islamicists ...
And half of them are foreigners. This suggests the odds of success are not as high as appeared at the beginning of the article, nor that the attempt necessarily has the king's approval. It will be interesting to see how this plays out -- in these days of phone conferences and Skype, personal visits are not as necessary as they were in the past... and I must admit to being puzzled as to why the named individuals would find reason to go to Morocco, anyway.
Posted by:Fred

#4   How effective is the King's protection?

If it were effective, I'd think most of Morocco's Jews would not have left, or would have returned when the king invited them back, mom. That kind of thing generally means that if the police catch the perpetrators, they are prosecuted. But that then depends on the police...
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-07-13 13:35  

#3  Question: How effective is the King's protection? What happens to anybody who attacked Jews in Morocco?
Posted by: mom   2010-07-13 12:44  

#2  The king at the time, Hassan II, had placed all Jews under his personal protection.

He was protecting them against his people, Rambler, who occasionally exercise their traditional religious rights against the dhimmis. The current king is equally enlightened, and doesn't understand any more than his father why this isn't properly appreciated by those who left. Half a century ago the king extended his personal protection over a quarter of a million Jews; The CIA estimates there are fewer than 6,500 remaining. The rest are in Israel, France, Canada, and the U.S., where they no longer need the king to protect them from his subjects.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-07-13 06:35  

#1  I visited Tangiers, Morocco in 1973 when my ship made a port call there. This was a few months before the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. We had several Jewish crew members aboard. The king at the time, Hassan II, had placed all Jews under his personal protection. (Most of the Jewish crew members still stayed aboard.) I don't know if the current king, Mohammed VI, has continued his father's policy, or if it actually meant anything in the first place.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2010-07-13 03:25  

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