Been there, done that. Went from Gibraltar to Ceuta in the days when it took longer to cross from the Rock into Spain than to sail from Malaga to Ceuta, where the traffic flowed interrupted across the border with the EU in and out of Africa,
That happened? It's deja vue all over again. Join the dots in the sand. When Morocco began to annex Western Sahara in 1975, the King watched as thousands of his otherwise tightly-controlled subjects spontaneously surged across the border, with the tacit approval of the US and France, who did not like Polisario's proximity to Algeria, Bounce forward fifty years and watch as the King benignly observes fifty thousand people swarm across the frontier to Ceuta, the Spanish enclave bordering Morocco. Few of them seem to carry any baggage not even a knapsack- which is anomalous for purported migrants. Some of these crowds might well be economic migrants taking advantage of the state-inspired mayhem but it does not solve the puzzle of why 50,000 people should storm a peaceful border.
However, consider that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has not only shown unprecedented solidarity for Palestine but has made overtures to both Polisario and Algeria. The Moroccan Kingdom has, despite its population being fervently pro-Palestinian as its fans showed in the World Cup, is a prominent member of the "Abrahamic Accords" touted by Trump and Netanyahu whose major diplomatic dilemma is which of their anuses it should lick first.
It could, of course, be a total coincidence that thousands of people from a tightly controlled authoritarian state suddenly decide to jump he borders but if you really think so send me your contact details so I can offer you a bargain bridge to Brooklyn, not to mention a beachfront property in Gaza.
Reportedly dozens of people have died in this stampede which suggests the King maintains traditional levels of cynicism on this issue. US ambassador to the UN Daniel Patrick Moynihan revealed in his memoirs about the first Green March and Morocco's invasion. The United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success."
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