Where next? Whitley Bay? The appalling Danny Danon, who tried to have African immigrants to Israel transported to Australia, has now come out in favour of Moroccan annexation of Ceuta and Melilla, just as Israel, having armed Argentina during the Falklands War, has come close not only to recognising Argentine sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, but also to securing such recognition from the United States, likewise always officially neutral on the question.
Since entry to Ceuta does not guarantee entry to mainland Spain, and in any case you would have to get from one to the other, half or more of the day trippers have already gone home, and most or all of the rest soon will. They were encouraged to make their excursion as an assertion of the Moroccan claim, to the point that some of them were transported in government trucks. Morocco is now, if not quite allied to Israel and the United States, then certainly aligned with them, whereas the present Spanish Government has opposed the Israeli genocide of Gaza and the American-Israeli war on Iran.
50 years ago and exploiting the power vacuum after the death of General Franco, Morocco likewise used external actors, again including the United States, to turn Western Sahara into what is now the last real colony on the African continent. Here we are again. You laughed at Jeremy Corbyn for his knowledge of, and active interest in, the Sahrawi cause, just as you laughed at him for his knowledge of, and active interest in, the cause of the Chagossians. You are not laughing now.
