Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, posted on X on Friday: "Spain, which never misses an opportunity to lecture Israel, has declared a state of emergency in Ceuta following the crisis over its immigration policy.
Sharing Danon’s post, Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente remarked: “Well, it all seems to be becoming quite clear.”
There are two things I still don’t understand about this disaster:
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What are the migrants trying to achieve? If most of them have already returned, they can’t be real asylum seekers, so what’s the point?
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What’s up with the Italian & French responses? This enclave doesn’t share a land border with Spain and as I understand it, Ceuta isn’t part of the Schengen area and everyone travelling from there is subject to the same customs checks as if they were coming from outside the area. It’s not like the Ceuta government is going to just put all these people on the next plane to the mainland.
for 2 in Italy there’s a “far” right government so they are just trying to get votes from scared people
There’s an AP article that was published yesterday, I think, which has interviews with a few of the people who went to Ceuta. A common theme was young men who are struggling to find work in Morocco thinking that there might be better prospects in Spain, followed by the realization that there really wasn’t for them. Might be worth the read if you’re curious.
It’s in the article.
It’s unclear to me based on the information in the article.
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Why doesn’t Spain just take over Morocco? The citizens seem like they would support it.
Because Spain doesn’t flaunt international law with impunity like the US and Israel does.
I’m assuming it’s a different story if so many citizens want to be under Spanish rule?
No it is not you can’t invade another country even if majority of the population want to be annexed. A referendum is the only legal way which has 0.01% to happen
There’s no guarantee the government would allow a referendum. Either way human rights, like the right to self-determination, trumps any legal framework.
That’s why i said the chance is so minimal but you can’t simply invade a country even if all it’s people in the invaded country want it
That wouldn’t be an invasion, then. Both countries would approve it and it would be done.
You really believe Marocco king will accept it?
They want Spanish wealth, they don’t want Spanish culture though.
Even if 100% of Moroccans wanted to live in Spain, they probably wouldn’t vote to be annexed. They want to still be Moroccan.
