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انضم أكثر من 7 آلاف من مستعملي الموقع العالمي "فايسبوك ,,,

يأتي ذلك في وقت تطالب فيه المعارضة بمجلس المستشارين الوزير الأول عباس الفاسي ، بتوضيح
خلفيات الاتهام الموجه إليه بخصوص قيامه بعمليات توظيف وتعيينات في مناصب عليا ، دون الخضوع لمعايير الشفافية وحق التباري لشغل المناصب العمومية ، ويتضمن الاتهام أيضا توظيف مقربين من عائلة عباس الفاسي ومن أصدقائه وأبنائه.

وتقول المجموعة في بلاغ تأسيسها على "الفايس بوك" أنه " يجب أن يعرف عباس الفاسي أنه بقبوله تنصيب أبنائه وأصهاره في مناصب المسؤولية على رأس المؤسسات العمومية، فإنه لا يفعل غير ترسيخ المزيد من الحقد الطبقي والظلم الاجتماعي بين شرائح المجتمع المغربي" . وتضيف المجموعة " إن ما سيجعل المغاربة في هذه الظروف العصيبة التي نعيشها حريصين على وحدة بلدهم، مستعدين للدفاع
عن حوزته ومقدساته بالغالي والنفيس، هو اقتناعهم بأن الوطن يعاملهم كأبناء، وليس كغرباء."


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وتعمل المجموعة أيضا على نشر أخبار وصور ومتعلقات مرئية وصوتية متعلقة بعائلة الفاسي الفهري. وكتبت المجموعة في أحدث أخبارها ان " عائلة الفاسي الفهري أصبحت هي الأخرى ضمن لائحة المقدسات التي لا يجب الاقتراب منها ،مع أن هذه العائلة أصبحت تحتل أسماء أبنائها بين أسبوع وآخر صفحات الجرائد بمناسبة تعيينات هؤلاء الأبناء في مناصب المسؤولية. آخرها تعيين لينا الفاسي الفهري التي لا تحمل سوى شهادة الدروس العليا في القانون في منصب مسؤولة الموارد البشرية بوزارة الشبيبة والرياضة. والآنسة لينا ليست سوى بنت أخت عباس الفاسي الوزير الأول وأخت الطيب الفاسي الفهري وزير الخارجية. ويأتي تعيين هذه الآنسة المحظوظة في وقت "يبرقق" فيه عصي القوات المساعدة رؤوس دكاترة في القانون الخاص والعام والدولي يوميا أمام البرلمان يحلم أغلبهم بنصف هذا

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Morocco announced on Tuesday that seven of its nationals had been on board a Gaza-bound aid fleet that was attacked by Israeli forces early Monday morning

The seven Moroccans will be moved to the Jordanian capital of Amman shortly. There are no details on their condition.

On Monday morning, Israeli naval forces attacked the Freedom Flotilla, killing at least nine and wounding dozens. The forces also seized the ships and vessels and prevented the fleet from reaching the Gaza Strip.

Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Nabil Sharif said on Tuesday that the Jordanian embassy in Tel Aviv was taking steps to transfer the activists on board of the ships to the Arab kingdom to travel later to their countries.

Sharif said the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan requested Amman to transfer their nationals who were on board of the ships to the kingdom, adding that coordination will continue with other countries whose nationals were among the participants in the flotilla.

Source: riadzany.blogspot.com

أفاد مصدر مطلع من وزارة السياحة أن عدد السياح الإسرائيليين الزائرين للمغرب قد ارتفع بشكل لافت في الأشهر الأربعة الأولى من السنة الجارية.

ونقلت يومية التجديد عن المصدر ذاته ، الذي فضل عدم الكشف عن هويته، أن نسبة هؤلاء السياح ارتفعت في الفصل الأول من سنة 2010 مقارنة مع السنة الماضية بما بين 10 إلى 20 في المائة.

وأوضح ذات المصدر أن السياح الإسرائيليين يقصدون المدن الجنوبية، مضيفا أن مدينة الصويرة هي الوجهة المفضلة الأولى لهم، تليها مدينة ورزازات ثم مدينة أكادير ثم مراكش.

وحسب ذات المصدر، فإن المسار السياحي لهؤلاء يكون دائما ثلاثيا، مضيفا أن الدولة ـ الوسيط غالبا ما تكون إحدى دول البحر الأبيض المتوسط.

ذكر أن مركز " إسرائيل فالي " (غرفة التجارة الإسرائيلية الفرنسية) ، كشف مؤخرا أن المغرب أضحى من الوجهات السياحية الدينية المفضلة للإسرائيليين .

وأورد المركز أن الإسرائيليين يفضلون التوجه على الخصوص إلى مدن الرباط والدار البيضاء ، وفاس ومراكش والصويرة وآسفي وأكادير.

وذكر المركز أن السنتين الأخيرتين شهدتا زيادة في نسبة "الحجاج" الإسرائيليين الذي يؤمون إلى المواقع الخاصة باليهود ، موضحا أن الأعياد الدينية اليهودية "باك " "هيلولة" تشهد أكبر توافد لـ "الحجاج " اليهود للمغرب.

وأشار المركز إلى أن نحو 500 ألف يهودي مغربي مازالوا يحتفظون بروابط "متينة " مع مسقط رأسهم في المغرب.

ووفق تأكيدات المصدر نفسه ، فإن عدد المغاربة اليهود الذين هاجروا من المغرب تجاه إسرائيل خلال 2008 تجاوز 211 مغربيا.

March 8 is not a day that Chris Broadbent will soon forget. The preceding weekend, gendarmes entered the Village of Hope, a Christian-run orphanage in Morocco's Atlas Mountains where Broadbent, a New Zealand native, worked as a human resources manager, and began questioning children and staff. At first, he and the other foreign workers were assured that the interrogation was routine. But as it dragged on, the questions turned to subjects like 'How do you pray?' and the police began searching homes on the compound for children's Bibles. On Monday morning, after being held in a separate room from the orphanage's 33 children, Broadbent and his 15 colleagues were summarily deported from Morocco, accused of illegally proselytizing for their faith.

"Most of the couples were there as foster parents and had raised these children since infancy," Broadbent says. "When they were told that their parents had to leave, it was chaos - the kids were running after any adult they could find, and just holding on. It was the most devastating thing I've ever seen." 

The Village of Hope deportations are part of what appears to be a widespread crackdown on Christian aid workers in Morocco. An estimated 40 foreigners - including Dutch, British, American and Korean citizens - have been deported this month, including Broadbent and his colleagues. Among them were an Egyptian Catholic priest in the northern city of Larache and a Korean-born Protestant pastor in Marrakesh who was arrested as he led services in his church. And this past week, authorities searched an orphanage founded by American missionaries in the town of Azrou called The Children's Haven. Salim Sefiane, a Moroccan who was raised at the orphanage and is still in touch with workers there, said the officials interrogated the orphanage staff and asked children as young as 8 years old to demonstrate how they pray. No action has been taken yet against the orphanage's workers, Sefiane said.

The large-scale deportations came as a surprise in a nation that is among the most liberal of Muslim countries. Although trying to convert Muslims to other faiths is illegal, Morocco tolerates the presence of other religions and is home to a number of churches and synagogues. "There are several things about this that are really striking," says Spanish journalist Ignacio Cembrero, who has written several books about the country. "There have been occasional deportations of people accused of proselytizing before, but never so many at once, and they've never expelled a Catholic before. And for the police to enter a church on Sunday, during services, to arrest people? Absolutely unprecedented."
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According to the Moroccan government, the deportees all broke the law, using their status as aid workers to cover their proselytizing. "They are guilty of trying to undermine the faith of Muslims," Interior Minister Tayeb Cherkaoui said in a press release.

But were they? Broadbent denies the charges. Part of his job at the Village of Hope was to ensure that staff members understood the rules prohibiting proselytizing, and he notes that all the orphanage's children received instruction in Islam. "We weren't teaching Christianity in any formal way," he says. But asked if reading the Bible to Muslim children constitutes proselytizing, he said, "We understood that it wasn't. And in any case, the authorities have always known that these children were being raised in Christian families." In fact, Village of Hope had been operating for 10 years and had received "institutional" status from the Moroccan government this year - a designation meaning it meets government standards. Many of the other deported Christians had also been in Morocco for extended periods of time. So why were they evicted now?
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Christopher Martin, a pastor since 2004 at the Casablanca International Protestant Church, says he's talked to three different people with connections "high up in the Moroccan government" and heard three different explanations for the action. But one common thread, he points out, is that the officials leading the crackdown - the Justice and Interior ministers - were both appointed in January. That suggests to many Christians in Morocco that the officials were eager to quickly make a mark on the political landscape with an initiative likely to have broad popular support.

Although the Moroccan government has in recent years dramatically reformed its family law to better protect the rights of women and has even sponsored programs to train women as Muslim preachers, it has also proven responsive to an increasingly religious public. In recent years, alcohol licenses have become much more difficult to obtain, and last September, for the first time, police in various cities arrested Moroccans who were eating in public during the fast period of Ramadan. The action prompted a formal complaint from the international organization Human Rights Watch.
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Aaron Schwoebel, the information officer at the U.S. embassy in Rabat, says that the Moroccan government has told the embassy there will be more deportations, including other Americans. He said the government did not indicate when. "We urge the Moroccan government to act in accordance with its highest traditions of tolerance," Schwoebel says, "And respect the human rights of the members of these religious minority communities, including those of our own citizens."

Now living in Spain after the gendarmes escorted him and his family to a departing ferry in Tangier, Broadbent hopes for the same thing. The last he heard, the Village of Hope children were still living at the orphanage, but he suspects they may soon be sent to other homes. "We'd like to open a dialogue that would lead to reuniting these families," he says. But in the meantime, he can only wonder about the meaning of it all. "Is this an isolated incident?" he asks. "Or is Morocco steering away from its tolerant past?"

Source: thetopnews.org

WASHINGTON: Lockheed Martin is being awarded an $841.9 million contract to produce 24 F-16 aircraft for Morocco, which ordered the jets in 2008, the Pentagon said Dec. 22.

Lockheed also won contracts to supply the Pentagon with "advanced counter measure system electronic warfare system, along with associated support equipment, alternate mission equipment and support elements," the Pentagon said in a statement.

The total value of the contract between the United States and Morocco is estimated about $2.4 billion, not all of which will be handled by Lockheed.

Other firms that manufacture or supply parts and equipment or can train technicians will share in the contract.

The Rafale jet produced by France's Dassault was among those that competed for the Moroccan contract.

Dassault has yet to sell any of the aircraft abroad, but French Defense Minister Herve Morin said last week he remained "resolutely optimistic" about the possibilities of exporting Rafale, Dassault Aviation's "multirole" combat jet.

"We are having advanced discussion with the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and also other partners," Morin told France's La Tribune newspaper.