A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI #211 - CEUTA: let's make a mess (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

On July 30, 2026, approximately 60,000 people (and over 1,000 unreported 
deaths), driven by Moroccan and perhaps other intelligence agents, aided 
by Moroccan border police, crossed the border dividing the exclave of 
Ceuta from Morocco, effectively invading what is Spanish territory but 
belongs neither to Europe nor the Schengen area . The exodus stemmed 
from a series of fake news stories that led them to believe that by 
entering Spanish territory they could take advantage of the measures 
enacted by the Sánchez government granting residence permits (not 
citizenship) to people who had been in Spain for years and had certified 
employment. The migrants pushed to invade Ceuta believed, also based on 
a ruling by the Spanish Supreme Court, which rightly recognizes the 
right of asylum seekers to have their claims evaluated, that they could 
benefit from this measure once they reached metropolitan Spain. But for 
this to happen, they would have had to cross the canal, which was no 
easy feat. It was therefore an invasion of Morocco for the purpose of 
territorial acquisition.
It must be said that Morocco is no stranger to these methods used to 
resolve domestic and foreign policy issues affecting the country: just 
remember the so-called "Green March" in November 1975, led by the king 
himself to gain control of the Saharawi, a former Spanish possession, 
plundering it of its mineral resources, especially phosphates, and 
fishing rights along its coasts. It is worth remembering that the march 
ended with Morocco's de facto acquisition of the territory and the 
settlement of Moroccan populations there, expelling the native 
populations, who were forced to live in desert camps on Algerian soil 
and attempt to oppose the illegitimate occupation of their territory 
with guerrilla warfare.
The same strategy has been advocated since March 12, 2026, by Michael 
Rubin, a former Pentagon official and senior fellow at the American 
Enterprise Institute (a highly influential foreign policy think tank), 
who published a commentary on the institute's website, according to 
which the US should recognize Ceuta and Melilla as occupied Moroccan 
territory, following Trump's recognition in his first term of Moroccan 
sovereignty over Western Sahara and Rabat's recommendation to send 
bulldozers to the border and enter Ceuta and Melilla unarmed, raising 
the Moroccan flag.
The US push to attack Spain was reinforced in April by statements from 
Mario Diaz-Balart, chairman of the US Congressional Committee on 
National Security and Rubio's advisor, who told the newspaper "El 
Espanol" that Ceuta and Melilla are not on Spanish territory, but 
Moroccan territory. Israelis, on "Ynet," one of the country's major news 
sites, asked: "The Abraham Accords reach the Straits. How can Israel 
help Morocco reclaim its North?" They identified support through 
preferential channels with Washington as the main route, and called for 
an attack on Spain, which recognizes Palestine while maintaining its 
African enclaves. This would give substance to the Abraham Accords and 
punish a NATO member that has repeatedly obstructed the alliance's action.
Fully aware of these circumstances, the Spanish government responded to 
the attempted invasion by closing all businesses in Ceuta and making the 
city uninhabitable, thus forcing more than 50,000 people to immediately 
return to Morocco. But by then, the initiative's advertising campaign 
had achieved its full effect: terrorizing European public opinion with 
the threat of an invasion. Italy and Denmark called for the suspension 
of Schengen, asserting that these migrants could enter Europe, and 
promoted a meeting of the interior ministers of 22 European countries, 
which was also attended by Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, 
Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Belgium, the 
Czech Republic, Cyprus, Greece, Finland, Latvia, Malta, Poland, and 
Slovenia.

Morocco as an "agent provocateur"

Aware that this was a provocation, we must ask ourselves who 
orchestrated it and why they chose Morocco as the agent to carry it out, 
and who is interested in causing problems for the Sanchez government. As 
the facts demonstrate, the United States, first and foremost, has not 
digested Sanchez's refusal to use US bases in Spain as a launching pad 
for an attack on Iran; another factor is Sanchez's policy toward the 
State of Israel.
Morocco is a close ally of the United States, having signed the "Abraham 
Pact" recognizing Israel. The country effectively serves as a US 
bridgehead in Africa, allowing it to penetrate a continent where the 
United States is increasingly marginalized. Furthermore, as is well 
known, Morocco is a country largely infiltrated by Israel, which 
controls its ruling class and mainstream media. The strong, though 
small, Jewish community that has operated there for centuries is 
well-received, strong, and protected by its sovereign. A sovereign, 
however, who remains distant from the country, lives in France and has 
delegated the management of the state to his court, made up of wealthy 
landowners and the owners of the large industrial and mining 
conglomerates that dominate the country. The link between the Moroccan 
ruling class and international finance has historically been André 
Azoulay, economic advisor to King Hassan II (from 1991 to 1999) and his 
son Muhammad VI, and also a member of the Board of the Banque 
Paris-Bass, as well as a representative of the Moroccan Jewish 
community, who has effectively guided Moroccan policy. The role of the 
Jewish component in Moroccan politics was enshrined in the 2011 
constitutional reform, which among other things recognized its 
importance to the country's life.
But the Moroccan economic system also relies on the European Union to 
develop, for which it operates through lobbying at the European 
Commission in Brussels. These lobbyists corrupt European officials and 
politicians, as several recently brought to light (Quatargate 2022) have 
demonstrated. They have also implicated elected officials from both the 
right and left to obtain concessions for Morocco's agricultural economy 
and exports, competing with the production of European Mediterranean 
countries through preferential treatment, obtaining recognition of 
fishing rights, and political cover for the occupation of the Saharawi 
people.
Morocco is a Muslim state whose ruler considers himself the direct heir 
of Muhammad, and is therefore a sacred figure, who takes advantage of 
his institutional position to exercise strict control over the practice 
of religion, despite professing a moderate Islam. The Moroccan 
government's Ministry of Islamic Studies manages all mosques in Europe, 
mostly of the Malaki rite, funded by Morocco. These mosques, together 
with those in Turkey, constitute one of the strongest networks of 
Islamic religious structures on the European continent. It exercises 
strict control over them and, through them, over the migrant population 
that congregates there, guaranteeing full cooperation with Western 
security systems, especially in monitoring second and third generations, 
to counter re-Islamization. For this combination of reasons, Moroccan 
police authorities are well-regarded within European security circles, 
willing to turn a blind eye, and perhaps even two, to their activities.

The image effect of Ceuta

Even though the 60,000 were turned away, the "image effect" of a human 
avalanche pouring into a territory that claims to be European but is 
actually foreign to the continent continues to play out and will 
continue to serve as a warning and a scare, enabling and legitimizing 
the security policies of Meloni and the Danish prime minister, a 
self-styled socialist. The latter is known for her failed economic 
management, not so much because of emigration, but for having squandered 
the country's wealth to finance the war in Ukraine. Now that she sees 
the population's high standard of living compromised, she needs the 
fight against emigration to shore up her questionable actions. After 
being one of the US's most faithful and foolish allies, Denmark finds 
itself under pressure from Trump, who demands Greenland, which the 
country exploited with colonial policies and the sterilization of its 
indigenous populations.
The search for solutions to the migration problem through the 
outsourcing of migrants through the creation of hotspots in countries 
such as Albania, Kosovo, and Rwanda has failed miserably. This ignores 
the real reasons behind the measures enacted by the Sánchez government, 
which, beyond any speculation, are aimed at regulating and regularizing 
Spain's internal labor market, combating undeclared work, promoting 
integration, and allowing migrant workers to fully enter the Spanish tax 
system. This is especially true given that many of these workers come 
from Latin American countries, where Spanish-speaking and culturally 
diverse people are more easily integrated than migrants from other 
countries. What is enviable about Spain at this time is the fact that it 
is the only country with a higher economic growth rate than
all other EU countries. This is precisely because Spain has made 
far-sighted political strategies and economic development plans, 
addressing growing energy needs through the development of renewables. 
It must be said, however, that these policies are being called into 
question by scandals affecting the government, due to the behavior of 
some of its members or their families. However, on a factual level, they 
are particularly effective.
By falling into the trap of viewing the events in Ceuta as an invasion 
and as proof of the failure of the Sánchez government's immigration 
policy, Spaniards, and even the left, would end up playing into the 
hands of right-wing parties in every European country, who rightly see 
Spain as an alternative to their own policies and fear the spread of 
support for the Spanish government's policies.

The end of European Union solidarity

The disorganized reaction of Meloni and Frederiksen to the events in 
Ceuta, and the substantial failure of the interior ministers' meeting 
called by the two prime ministers, who seized the opportunity to suspend 
the Schengen Agreement, speaks volumes about these governments' need to 
cover up their repeated failures in social, economic, and foreign policy 
with migration policies. The failure of their migration containment 
strategies, based on hotspots in third countries and repatriations, 
although endorsed by the European Union with the recent agreement on new 
migration management, is demonstrated by the increased conflict on this 
issue between different countries and by Germany's decision to send 
migrants back to their first-arrival countries, accentuating the overall 
political crisis within the Union and the solidarity between the various 
countries. The needs of the policies of Northern European countries and 
those of the first-arrival Mediterranean countries are too different.

The Editorial Staff

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/09/06/ceuta-facimme-ammuina/
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