Morocco's mainstream Hespress news site has an article about how Eurovision is trying to get Morocco to return to the competition.
Morocco only entered once, in 1980, with the only song ever sung in Arabic for the competition. However, it ended up in next to last place and Morocco's king vowed never to return.
Now, Morocco is using another excuse for not returning to Eurovision: the competition's decision in 2016 not to raise the flag of any country that is not a member of the UN, which applies to "Palestine" as well as Crimea and other flags.
The comments on the article are most interesting.
While some hail the ostensible solidarity with Palestinians that Morocco is pretending to have, others are slamming the idea of not joining Eurovision because of the Palestinian issue.
The Palestinian cause will not benefit from anything, but we lost and are still losing the billions that we support the Palestinians through the Al-Quds Committee and the Arab League in return, nothing.
Normalization is ongoing with the entity already. Recently, Morocco bought 3 drones [from Israel.]
How long will this folly persist, isolating Morocco internationally and selling its ideals in exchange for serving a single agenda that does not help the Moroccan people at all?. What is the relationship of the Moroccan people to lifting or not lifting a piece of cloth on an international competition? Isn't Morocco's participation and showing its capabilities internationally more worthy than the Arabs and their boycott?
A very strange logic among many Moroccans and with great regret. Why do we hate the Israelis when they are an internationally recognized country? What is even stranger is that many Moroccans hate even Jews from other countries and even Moroccan Jews. Why do you hate the Israelis? Because they kill Palestinians and because they raped Palestinian land, seems to be the answer. Turkey does not kill the Kurds and the Syrians, and Syria does not kill its people and it is from its blood and flesh? Iraq does not kill the Iraqis today? And the Saudis and the Emirates do not kill the poor Yemenis? By Allah, Israel has no weapons made in order to kill Moroccans on the contrary, it will help Morocco obtain weapons if we Algeria attacks...
This decision and this non-participation policy contradicts the provisions of the Moroccan constitution and the spirit of ancient Moroccan history, with its dimensions and its affiliation to the Mediterranean space and culture.
Who is Palestine to prohibit and separate Morocco from its Mediterranean civilizational affiliation?
The ban of non-flags of countries that are not recognized by the United Nations is natural. Otherwise, it will raise the flag of the Polisario and provide a time for them to be seen by 600 million people!
As for normalization with Israel, would you laugh at us, as Erdogan laughs at us? Turkey's trade exchange with Israel in the millions, they have embassies, offices, reception of heads of government, etc. .. Israel has been recognized by all Arabs and Muslims directly or indirectly .. So stop laughing at yourself. If Morocco does not participate, Nablus and Jericho will be liberated?
Moroccan participation is a good publicity for the country as a country of openness and peace.
Since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, we have not gotten anything from Palestine except headaches with their empty expressions and their racism based on a vacuum that does not increase except in delaying our economic and political progress. It is time to say to the Palestinians about the wisdom of dignity - a land that you are defending as adults. Stand up, take the burden of building your future with your own hands, as we do, and let us live in peace and progress. We did not and will not forget, I, the Palestinians, many times, they provoked us with their cooperation and stood by the terrorist gang (Polisario) striking at the wall every good thing we did from them, forgetting that Moroccan souls died for them and on top of them are the two Moroccan sisters (Ghaithah and Nadia El-Bradley) who Sacrificed everything for their sake for Palestine.