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  UN CONFIRMS SHIREEN WAS ASSASSINATED BY ISRAEL The UN Human Rights Office reported this Friday that “all the information compiled” by its independent investigators suggests that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who died in May in the Palestinian city of Jenin, was shot. of Israeli security forces. "The shots did not come from armed Palestinians, as the Israeli authorities initially defended," the spokeswoman for the UN office Ravina Shamdasani added today at a press conference, who considered it "alarming" that Israel has not yet launched a criminal investigation into the murder.

                                   AFRICAN LION 22 The military forces of Morocco and those of the United States have held a joint exercise called "African Lion 22" earlier this week, including landing exercises on the Moroccan coast of Agadir. The exercise does not include the coasts of Western Sahara, which the United Nations maintains as a non-autonomous territory subject to decolonization. Illegally, Morocco claims that the Western Sahara belongs to it (former US President Donald Trump recognized this in violation of international law. But the novelty on this occasion has been the presence of military observers from Israel. In this way, Morocco takes another step in its relationship with the Jewish state and once again betrays the Palestinian people. Morocco has violated the commitments that the Arabs established to maintain Israel as an oppressive state, occupying territories that do not belon...

 THE GREEK KALENDS The decision of the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, to approve Morocco's plan on Western Sahara is a wound that he continues to fester as it has led to an unwanted conflict with Algeria. The problem is acute because Sánchez has not limited himself to supporting autonomy, but rather has given Morocco ownership of the former Spanish colony, as Donald Trump did at the end of his term. This is so because the plan established by Rabat explicitly says that the autonomy granted to the Sahrawis “will be carried out under the sovereignty of Morocco”, so that autonomy and sovereignty are inseparable, and this is what causes harm. If Pedro Sánchez had proposed a new statement of the Moroccan plan, to preserve the position of the United Nations, this crisis would have been avoided. It does not take a magician to support a new statement that, in substance, said: "The two parties (Morocco and the Polisario) accept the autonomy of Western Sahara under Moroccan ...

                                              ALGERIA AND NON-ALIGNMENT When it is said that Algeria is aligned with Russia, it is necessary to place that phrase in a real perspective and take into account that Algeria was one of the founding countries of the Non-Aligned Movement. The conference held in Bandung in April 1955 brought together 29 countries that refused to align themselves or establish alliances with one of the two great blocs. The main members were Indonesia, Egypt, India, Pakistan and Algeria. In 2005, considering the cold war to be a thing of the past, the participants created a new body called the “Asian-African Strategic Partnership”. The new context was no longer so rigid and the establishment of agreements in different areas with Russia and the US were left to the discretion of its members. However, the Non-Aligned continue to exist and currently group ...

  THE MISTAKE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT Among the mistakes made by the head of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, the most serious was, last April, recognizing that Western Sahara belongs to Morocco. This is a total falsehood. Western Sahara is a non-autonomous territory registered in the 4th United Nations decolonization commission. And the Saharawi people must pronounce on their self-determination. Morocco prevents it, claiming falsely that the territory belongs to it. Former US President Donald Trump. He accepted that the territory belongs to Morocco, but he did it because his goal was for Morocco to recognize Israel. But Spain has been the former colonial power in Western Sahara and does not have the right to hand over to Morocco a sovereignty that does not belong to it. It is natural that Algeria, in permanent conflict with Morocco, has reacted furiously to Pedro Sánchez's decision. The Spanish president says that his action will allow Morocco to recognize...

                                The crisis between Algiers and Madrid  The crisis is taking on new proportions, with the involvement of Brussels, which has reacted twice to Algeria's decision to suspend the Treaty of Friendship with Spain. On Thursday, a spokeswoman for the European Union considered the situation worrying and called on Algeria to reconsider its decision and on Friday, two senior EU officials clearly warned the Algerian government, going so far as to brandish the threat of retaliation. After reacting for the first time through its embassy in Brussels on Friday, Algeria reacted a second time this Saturday, June 11 via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to respond to the European Union. "Algeria deplores and rejects the hasty and unfounded statements made yesterday on behalf of the European Union following the sovereign decision taken by Algeria to suspend the Treaty of Friendship, Good...