1. Why is Spain wasting it’s time with this? It owes the Jews of today nothing and can’t right the wrongs of the past.
2. All they are doing is making it more possible for Muslims to insist that the same thing be done for them because their ancestors were banished in the 16th century.
They are also giving validity to the claims of Arab “refugees” who want the right to return to Israel because their grandfather was there for two years, from 1946 to 1948, and accepted an invitation to leave until the combined Arab forces could finish wiping out the Joooos! Their connection to Israel is remote to non-existent, but they continue to claim a ‘right of return’. If enough Sephardim had been interested in returning to Spain, that would have bolstered their claim.
Interestingly, Fidel and Raul Castro are descendants of Maranos. If things get too hot for the surviving brother, he’s got one more year to beat feet back to Spain.
Rights of ancestry or quite different than presumed wrongs of a conquering people, who continue to insist Spain still belongs to them.