Morocco’s former Justice Minister, Mustapha Ramid, says Algeria’s hostility towards Rabat played a key role in pushing his country to sign the normalisation deal with Israel. In a speech at the Ahmed Raissouni Forum conference — an Islamist gathering — Ramid, who was Morocco’s Justice minister between 2012 and 2017, argued that the specific constraints of each country can drive normalisation efforts. “For Morocco, this mainly concerns the Moroccan Sahara issue (…) Western powers often exploit internal crises in countries to exert additional pressure,” he added on Saturday 25 May during the s…