It was the images of empty food markets on the news, and reporters' overblown warnings of possible shortages, that told Spaniards on Thursday that their nation's five-century dispute with Morocco over the sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla, two enclaves on the Mediterranean coast, had reignited... Moroccan activists were blocking food imports into one of the enclaves and promising more action to come... For many in Spain, the snub was yet another in a series of signs that the nation doesn't demand the respect it once did -- and that its status as a global player is crumbling... a month ago, when Morocco's foreign affairs ministry released a statement accusing Spanish authorities of beating five Moroccans who were trying to legally cross Europe's southernmost border through what Rabat calls the "occupied" enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla... unsatisfied with the response... put out four more accusatory statements, including one calling Spanish police "racist."
Excellent idea. One just hopes that the Morroccan jerks are getting access to free health care in Ceuta. I mean if not this must be a case for the UN Human Rights Commission, mustn’t it?
“Moroccan jackoffs”
Hey, they have a lot of pull.