The road to the Israeli-Moroccan rapprochement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jacob Abadi (United States Air Force Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-54 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629380008718386 |
| OpenAlex | W2054214008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
Morocco's relations with Israel are noted for their moderation and cordiality. With the exception of former Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who called upon the Arab states to come to terms with Israel, King Hassan II was the only Arab head of state that favoured negotiations with the Jewish State. But unlike any other leader in the region, he agreed to meet Israeli leaders in an attempt to find a solution to the Arab‐Israeli conflict. Observers and commentators on Middle Eastern affairs had often argued that Arab countries, which do not share common borders with Israel, tend to be hostile, because they have little to lose by doing so. As a country situated far from the focus of the Arab‐Israeli conflict, Morocco was an exception to this rule. What were the reasons for such a conciliatory attitude on Morocco's part and why did Hassan decide to embark on such a dangerous course of action, which exposed him to intense criticism from the Arab world, are some of the questions, which this essay attempts to answer. This essay argues that Morocco's conciliatory attitude was a by‐product of both domestic and external constraints, which were not dealt with in adequate depth in the preliminary studies written on this topic, and which profoundly altered Morocco's policy toward Israel
Criticism · Foreign policy · Jewish state · Judaism · Middle East · Moderation · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · State (computer science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Social Psychology
Evolving consensus around Moroccan-Israeli normalisation
Tourism and Israel–Arab Normalization Processes
Civil society, insecurity and Arab support for normalization with Israel
Foreign Policy and Domestic Opposition Spaces under Authoritarianism
US diplomacy and the North African 'War of the Sands' (1963)
Differentiation and diffusion
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,46 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |