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New EU-Morocco Fisheries Deal and Its Implications for Israel
(Jerusalem Post) Eugene Kontorovich - The EU has recently approved an agreement with Morocco that extends EU-Moroccan fisheries treaties into the territory of Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. The deal actually pays Morocco for access to the occupied Western Saharan fishery. At the same time, in its negotiations with Israel over grants and product labeling with regard to the West Bank, the EU says that its "tax dollars" cannot be spent in occupied territory. The EU has been under strong pressure to sign the deal with Morocco because of Spanish and French interests in the fish off the occupied Western Sahara. They simply did not want to lose an economic opportunity. The EU has used entirely fabricated international law claims in dealing with Israel, claims contradicted by its own practice in dealings with Morocco. The writer is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.