It is no accident that ends this series of posts on the future of Morocco a20 November. In Spain, la derechonarecover the government on the anniversary of the death of this great right that wasFrank.

Franco was not only a disgrace to Spain: it was forMorocco. He began his military career in the Rif Warand his political legacy is measured in the Sahara, open conflict for 30 years and that Spain ignores. Y, however, Spain has no right to ignore Morocco. There is a debt arising from colonialism (the obvious and insidious), a common history and a present that can not be reduced to low-cost tourism exports and import trabajadorxs baratxs.

The derechona of this, also, has made the Moroccans and the focus of his speech. In times of crisis and in Catalonia, Without going any further, cornered a character has come into play: Mohamed®, call, paternalistic familiarity with that is just an insult undermined. Mohamed® is guilty of RMI fraudMena as the minister and the same Mohamed® is to blame for the impending death of the Catalan beret and sausage, by Duran and Lleida. Divide and conquer. If ordinary people look at us closer to the face would understand that the object of contempt for the political class are todxs. They need our votes, but they give a damn.

A nosotrxs, as a society, We also give a damn what happens in Morocco. We love Marrakech, cheap travel, pictures of snakes, darbuka take classes and eat couscous. But Morocco is Marrakech: Morocco is the metaphor of Omar and chains Buya, untamed northern, unbearable corruption, absolute power and the people who resist.

We're too entranced with the Egyptian revolution to pay attention to the Moroccan revolution. Today, and every Sunday, Northern Morocco, former Spanish protectorate, is manifested by a dignified life in a spring that could begin in the Sahara. Something that does not appear in any newspaper or any television, nosotrxs something that does not exist. Spring, you know, view from near cause allergies.

The movement of indignation Moroccan, curiously, also born a day 20, in this case in February. Strongly support the # 20f would be a way of showing that this land is not worth all 20 November which is already history.

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These days coincide two events have little to do but in the bottom part of the same landscape: commemorate the 1st anniversary of theLaayoune revolt and the premiere of the movie “The forgotten of the forgotten”.

The revolt of Laayoune have remained in the collective imagination as yet another vindication of the independence of Western Sahara from Morocco. Nothing new, at bottom, nothing dangerous. But behind every nationalism is a story. In the case of these riots, began as a massive protest against the appalling living conditions and the apparent lack of a better future. Were, originally, social protest. The nationality question arose a few weeks later and is closely linked: people tend to want the best possible life and independence tend to go in that direction, as ways of building a better future.

Years ago I say and write that we can not talk Arab World and proposeArab Worlds to designate the band of countries stretching from Morocco to Iraq (without Iran and Turkey, stubbornly Arabized by the Spanish press) and share language which they are named. Arab Worlds, plural, precisely to emphasize that, plurality, diversity. Neither the Arab world is Arabic, not everyone speaks in Arabic Arabic, or the Arab world (the other quid the question) a Muslim.

However, I'm rethinking the name given the revolutions and protests that take place these days in Tunis, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Morocco, Algeria, Saudi Arabia…

Is the Arab World?

If l @ s @ s Egipci have caught tunecid l @ s @ s is because they have been considered a sister. If ell @ s can, WE 's also. It is the solidarity of those who are up to the bow, yes, and the proof is that the Chinese government has been quick to censor the word “Egypt” search engine. It is also more.

The Arab world is diverse, clearly. But I understand that now the Copts, which are claimed descendants of the Pharaohs, do not feel different from chaouis, or these damn about them having different origins to Arab yemenitas.

There is a unique culture, no single language, not a single religion in the Arab World. But the feeling of being have their own place, apart.

The chiefs forgot maximum“divide and conquer”, standardize and bet on dissent by acallar, by crushing the difference.

Now several have forgotten who they are and have understood, finally, have a common. And they have it indoors.