Following my post on Moroccan-Israeli relations
Published by BO18 on - 2/28/2007Some Moroccan politicians do have brains and guts to approach Israel normally.
The Mayor of Marrakesh for instance. He signed a trilateral accord with Marseille (Fr.) and Haifa in Israel. He didn't sign it directly with Haifa though. Everything went through Marseille, which is the sister-city of both Haifa and Marrakech.
But the mayor did go on a picture with Haifa's mayor:
(Moroccan mayor is on the right, the Israeli one on the left)
The accord is nothing special really, it "provides for tourism training for students from Marrakesh and Haifa in Marseille".
But it's still remarkable.
But ofcourse, Morocco also has its share of Israel-haters and religious wackos. The local PJD threatened the mayor with an "intifada" against this scandalous decision. How dare they normalize ties with a zionist city! Bad mayor, bad mayor!
(via MEMRI)
(or maybe he's just haggling and waits for you to offer him a free plane-ticket as well. You never know:P)
Me and my weird mind.
But I still think that he should go to Israel, maybe by force.
Well ok, not force.
But lately I was thinking of why the dutch government doesn't take this hatred/extremism serious.
I mean, we do take Moroccan youngsters on trips to Africa, Morocco etc to see everything for themselves.
Why not take them to Israel, to experience everything firsthand?