{"id":59759,"date":"2026-05-03T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59759"},"modified":"2026-05-03T17:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T16:35:52","slug":"expert-analysis-us-playing-judge-and-party-in-western-sahara-sovereignty-transfer-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=59759","title":{"rendered":"Expert Analysis: US Playing Judge and Party in Western Sahara Sovereignty Transfer Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former diplomat and ex-Information Minister Abdelaziz Rahabi has presented a strategic vision on the short-term trajectory of the Western Sahara cause, telling dzwatch exclusively that the conflict is witnessing a deliberate &#8220;forced transfer&#8221; of Sahrawi sovereignty to the Moroccan occupier \u2014 with Washington playing the role of both judge and interested party simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>In his analysis, Rahabi confirmed that the past ten months have seen intense, sustained diplomatic activity, deliberately kept out of the spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>He outlined three key justifications for this alarming shift: first, an American-driven urgency overriding any genuine diplomatic commitment agenda; second, a notable retreat of the United Nations role, paralyzed by the Security Council; and third, active efforts to transform MINURSO from a monitoring and conflict-resolution instrument into a tool facilitating this forced sovereignty transfer.<\/p>\n<p>Rahabi stressed that the current US administration has no connection to previous efforts on the file, signaling a dangerous rupture in international legitimacy regarding the Sahrawi people&#8217;s inalienable right to self-determination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former diplomat and ex-Information Minister Abdelaziz Rahabi has presented a strategic vision on the short-term trajectory of the Western Sahara cause, telling dzwatch exclusively that the conflict is witnessing a deliberate &#8220;forced transfer&#8221; of Sahrawi sovereignty to the Moroccan occupier \u2014 with Washington playing the role of both judge and interested party simultaneously. In his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}