Morocco, Jan. 4 -- Washington D.C - The article portrays the conflict exactly the way Algerians and Polisario love it: Morocco is "occupying" the territory, it "oppresses" the Sahrawis, there is "no freedom of movement there," and the "Sahara" never belonged to Morocco.

The author even used a treaty that dates back to 1767 to give the reader the false impression that Morocco never considered Western Sahara as part of its territory. But Niarchos did not say that since the signing of the treaty, Morocco had never accepted its interpretation by the Spanish crown at the time.

Many researchers have pointed out that Spain misused the Spanish language version of the treaty to its advantage and ignored Morocco's objections that in the Arabic ve...