"MM- JULY 30TH- 534 YEARS LATER!” Monday Motivation w/Rabbi Garfinkel 8-3-26

So on July thirtieth, there were estimates of sixty thousand [sighs] I, I don't, I don't know what to call them.

I, I'm not sure to call them immigrants.

Sixty thousand, um, citizens, mostly of Morocco That stormed the both land barrier but also the sea barrier of Spain.

Now, when you hear what's going on here, you think that they're going to mainland Spain.

They're actually not.

It's quite interesting.

There are at least two areas, territories that Spain controls, that's officially Spain, but it's in the territorial, in territorial Africa, which basically one is a tip of Morocco, and that's called Ceuta.

And then if you go a little further east, um, into the Mediterranean Sea further, you will get to a place called Melilla.

And th- those are both protectorates.

They're both, as it were, Spain.

Um, and actually ironically, just as Gibraltar is on mainland Spain but is property of England, much to Spain's chagrin, Spain is not happy about that.

Um, so too over here, even though they're on mainland Africa as a part, quote-unquote, of Morocco, they really are officially Spain.

And what happens? Over 60,000 Moroccans and people of other nationalities stormed the fences, and there's a bit of a dis- discussion, a confusion if the Moroccan authorities let it happen, if, um, if it was...

how organized it was, if it was based on the Spanish Supreme Court ruling that allowed, um, said that we aren't gonna turn anyone back.

And nevertheless, for whatever the reason, they cr- they came into this territory called Ceuta, C-E-U-T-A, and they overwhelmed it.

And literally the amount of immigrants and invaders, call them what you want, whatever noun you want to use, was almost equal to the entire population [laughs] of the, of the mini territory there.

And, uh, rioting happened.

They ended up burning cars, and it was, uh, crazy.

Now, reports are that many of them, many/most of them are, have been sent back to Morocco.

Okay.