#borderization

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from Chaimaa Boukharsa, a decolonial activist and scholar in Islamic and Arabic studies. she also is the co-founder of AFROCOLECTIVA, an afrofeminist, antiracist and panafricanist collective.

translation (once again by the wonderful @dykeologies):

What’s happening in Ceuta has a lot to do with Sánchez (Spanish left-wing PM) visiting Algeria.

This wouldn’t be the first time that Morocco uses immigrating people to politically extort Spain. They already did it in 2021, when Spain received Brahim Ghali, from Frente Polisario, and Morocco opened its border with Ceuta letting thousands of people pass.

And this also must be understood within the alliance between Trump, Netanyahu, and Morocco. Morocco is a strategic ally in the zionist project in the region and uses the border as a tool for political pressure.

And another thing that seems important to me. These types of tragedies don’t just serve to pressure diplomatically. They also generate a climate of uncertainty, racism, islamophobia, and anti-Moorish hatred. And who capitalizes politically from this climate? The right and the far-right.

It doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me that this is happening at the doorstep of the general elections. Because the more the debate shifts towards migration, security, and Islamophobia, the more a right-wing political project is strengthened, a project that is also deeply aligned with the zionist policies of the Israeli government.

Those who lead the European right today are also some of the biggest international supporters of zionism.

The Moroccan government and the Spanish and European right are allies that work for the zionist project.

And Morocco does the dirty work. When it receive millions of euros to outsource European borders, it persecutes, represses, and kills migrants to prevent them from crossing. But when it wants to pressure Spain, it shows that it can open the border when it’s of interest.

As I said at the end, those who pay the price are always the same, migrants, used as bargaining chips in a geopolitical game much bigger than themselves.

[nbcnews]

Just 25 miles separates Georgia’s vibrant capital city, Tbilsi, and the front line of a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West.

Ignoring Washington's warnings, Moscow-backed troops have been moving a disputed border deeper into Georgia, a former Soviet republic that is now a staunch U.S. ally.

Russia agreed to withdraw its soldiers as part of a cease-fire deal in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, but they have not. Instead, troops or their local allies have bolstered the separatists' boundaries or moved them deeper into Georgia.

Sometimes a few extra acres are swallowed up in the night. In other places, ditches are plowed, surveillance cameras installed and green signs erected reading: "Attention! State Border! Passage Forbidden!"

Temuri Khuroshvili is a retired police officer whose cinder-block house is in one of the 52 villages on the boundary. His home is surrounded by annexed territory on 3 sides.

"We can do nothing to protect ourselves … we cannot start war on them,"  Khuroshvili said.

Nikolas Korashvili, a dance teacher, said his brother was forced to flee after he woke up to find the boundary had been moved overnight beyond his property.

“They gave him no warning,” Korashvili said. “He had to run away with his children and his family.”

The boundary "has been hardening" and becoming "more impenetrable," E.U. mission chief Erik Høeg said while overlooking a wide valley bisected by the meandering line. "It's been much more difficult since 2009, and we see less flexibility compared to 3 or 4 years ago."

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