My Judaism is questioned, as long as Palestinians are deprived of basic rights' King advisor
Morocco-Palestine, Politics, 6/5/2004

Andre Azoulay, advisor of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, asserted, in Fez Tuesday, "it is the Judaism I learnt in Morocco that I identify with (É) and as long as the Palestinians are denied their most basic rights, an essential part of my Judaism is questioned."

Speaking during a debate held part of the days on the "Culture of peace in the Middle east," Azoulay evoked his personal battle for the "triumph of justice and dignity," underlining that freedom and dignity to which he aspires would only have a meaning and legitimacy "should the other, the neighbor, (É) enjoy them without restriction."

"It is this Judaism I've learned in Morocco that I identify with, and today (É) my neighbor is, before all Palestinian, and as long as this Palestinian is denied his most basic rights, an essential part of my Judaism is questioned."

In a world where doubt and the logic of exclusion and confrontation often prevail, he went on, "the deepness of Moroccan Judaism and the strength of its conservative instinct is a reference in which I invite you to meditate," said Azoulay.

The king's advisor highlighted the urgent need to "preserve, by educating and informing, the coming generations, the essence of the social, human, and spiritual heritage that Moslems and Jews have inseminated together in Morocco for centuries."

"This heritage will remain, if we decide collectively to mobilize for the education of our children in the knowledge and respect of what the generations before them have built," he noted at the opening of the cultural days, held on the fringes of the festival of World Sacred Music in Fez.

Experts from the Middle East, the United States, and Europe attended the cultural days debates.

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