Former UN Envoy to Western Sahara and ex-US Secretary of State, James Baker, was given a lesson in history and diplomacy after he criticized the recent diplomatic accord between Morocco and Israel. Michael Rubin reminded the former top US official that his criticism of the recent diplomatic accord between Morocco and Israel threatens peace. And so, Trump deserves credit for seeking to rearrange the chessboard in the Middle East,” Rubin wrote in a column published in The Washington Examiner. “Baker gets history wrong when he says that Morocco took over the Western Sahara by force. Put another way, when Pompeo became secretary, Israel had relations with Egypt and Jordan.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 23, 2020 17:37 UTC