• larrikin99 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      Ceuta was annex by Portugal nearly 100 years before before large parts of Iberia were even annexed. I don’t know why continuous habitation by an Iberian nationality since the late middle ages isn’t considered enough to establish sovereignty. That was 1415, or 368 years before the Russian Empire annexed Crimea. If the issue is that Ceuta is 19 kilometers overseas, China has military outposts in the 9-dash line that are 1,100 km from Hainan.

      • Euergetes [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        1 month ago

        the time sounds significant but occludes that a large part of the population in Ceuta & Melilla were morroccan/rifians workers while most the spanish were part of a military garrison, not permanent residents. them becoming cities is more recent and intimately related to colonial exploitation–i think it’s fairly reasonable to entertain the working people of morrocco who built these places under colonized conditions have a claim.

        the kingdom of morrocco however only acts on this from the angle of fucking with Spain/EU, which criticize morrocco’s colonizing the Sahrawi. the israel/US angle is a part of the current heap, quid-pro-quo for the Abraham accords (the US demanding countries withdraw recognition of SADR since morrocco signed). but the timing is also close to a recent Spanish visit to Algeria (who host and arm the Polisario front)

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      1 month ago

      Same people will cry about Argentina taking the Falklands but now zionists winning is good because???