Deepl translation:

Think tanks, influencers and ultra-conservative pro-israel politicians have been promoting narratives about the Spanish occupation of Ceuta and Melilla outposts in the recent months to attack Spanish government for their stance against USA and Israel .

“Morocco should launch a new Green March on Ceuta and Melilla,” read the headline of an analysis published by the U.S. think tank Middle East Forum. It was March 16, four and a half months before the Ceuta crisis.

“Now that Spain’s Socialist President, Pedro Sánchez, has adopted the rhetoric of decolonization, Mohammed VI should revive the spirit of the Green March to carry out the definitive expulsion of Spanish settlers from Moroccan territory [...] Sánchez should do the right thing: live up to his anti-colonial rhetoric and put an end to the Spanish occupation in Africa,” wrote the author, Michael Rubin.

In recent months, and especially after the Ceuta crisis, pro-Israel conservative analysts, think tanks, and influencers have used Ceuta and Melilla to attack the Spanish government, which has been critical of the Israeli occupation and the genocide in Gaza and opposed to Donald Trump’s policies. This network seeks to promote the narrative that Ceuta and Melilla are also occupied territories and goes beyond the general criticism of Spain by the global far right regarding its immigration policy—including criticism leveled by Trump himself and his vice president, JD Vance, in the wake of the Ceuta crisis. The fact that some of these posts predated the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants in the autonomous city has served to fuel, without evidence, a conspiracy theory claiming that Israel and the U.S. are behind what happened in the autonomous city.

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