Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has achieved the unthinkable: weakening Spain while strengthening Morocco.

Through ideology, arrogance, and diplomatic vanity, the socialist leader has severed ties with Israel — one of the world’s foremost defense powers — just as Rabat becomes Jerusalem’s new military ally.

While Madrid preaches “peace” and “human rights,” Morocco is buying Israeli-made combat drones, guided missiles, artillery systems, and spy satellites.

Spain’s historic rival is rearming with Israeli technology while Sánchez signs his nation’s strategic death warrant.

Since normalizing relations in 2020, Israeli–Moroccan military cooperation has soared. Rabat has purchased Elbit Systems’ turrets, ATMOS 2000 howitzers, precision missiles, kamikaze drones, radar systems, and the Ofek 13 spy satellite — worth around one billion dollars. Both countries now co-manufacture drones inside Morocco, while Spain, by political choice, walks away from defense cooperation with Jerusalem.

Last week, Spain’s Congress approved an arms embargo on Israel, canceling over €1.2 billion in contracts. Sánchez called it a “humanitarian gesture,” applauded by the far left — and of course, by Hamas — but seen in Jerusalem as a strategic betrayal that will certainly lead to an unnecessary legal battle to make sure our companies are compensated based on what was originally agreed upon.

A former intelligence partner, Spain is now viewed as unreliable and politically toxic.

If Israel and Morocco are already co-producing drones, it is not inaccurate to think that equipment once built in Spanish facilities — Santa Bárbara Sistemas, Escribano Mechanical & Engineering, Airbus Defence, Navantia, or Rheinmetall-Expal — could soon be made in Morocco instead of  “Sánchez’s Third Republic.”

As if that were not enough, Sánchez delivered another embarrassment at Donald Trump’s Peace Conference in Sharm el-Sheik.

In a clumsy “bid to repair relations,” Spain threatened to boycott the event if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended. In the end, ‘Bibi’ stayed home, and Sánchez took his seat. He wanted peace only if Israel stayed away. This surreal event confirms that under the “leadership” of ‘Paiporta’s greyhound,’ Spain’s diplomacy has become a parody of itself.

Israel, ever pragmatic, took note.

Spain offers moral posturing; Morocco offers loyalty and strategic value. Jerusalem remembers who stands with it when it matters — and who hides behind empty speeches.

Today, Morocco controls the Atlantic gateway to the Mediterranean, cooperates with Israel on intelligence, and wields advanced weaponry that Spain can only dream of. Israeli drones patrol North Africa; Israeli satellites monitor the Strait; and Rabat has become the Maghreb’s leading military power.

Under this scenario, a dangerous irony emerges: under NATO’s Article 5, the Canary Islands are protected — but not Ceuta or Melilla. These Spanish enclaves on African soil fall outside the alliance’s defense clause. Should Morocco, emboldened by Israeli arms, ever test Spain’s sovereignty there, Madrid could not automatically count on NATO.

The cities most exposed to Moroccan pressure are, effectively, defenseless.

Spain is now disarmed by decree and isolated by ideology — led by a prime minister who confuses diplomacy with theater. Ceuta and Melilla, which Morocco still calls “unfinished decolonization,” may pay the price for this blindness.

While Sánchez trades national security for applause, Israel strengthens its southern flank. If tomorrow Moroccan radar spots Spanish movements before Madrid even imagines them, it won’t be Israel’s fault — but that of a government that chose vanity over sovereignty and ideology over defense.

Yesterday, Sánchez declared that any truce between Israel and Hamas must not come at the cost of “justice” for what he called a “genocide” in Gaza. He even went further to say that “peace cannot mean forgetting or impunity,” implying that Prime Minister Netanyahu should face international prosecution.

But, why does this character continue with this crusade against Israel? Because Sánchez needs to distract his audience from his own internal political vendetta.

What could we expect from a person who wants to put his wife and brother on his party’s electoral lists so that their corruption cases could be halted? What could we expect from someone who has his two former main political allies and servants accused of corruption (one of them is already serving prison time)?

Thus, let’s not be surprised if he now goes from the most vocal “anti-genocide cocky pijoprogre” to being the new “international leader” against the “Israeli occupation of Gaza” while ignoring that more than half a million people have died in Yemen and Syria – respectively -, and more than 150,000 have also been killed in Sudan.

Indubitably, Prime Minister Sánchez is just a classical antisemite who hides his hatred behind the anti-Israel mask because he does not tolerate what Israel stands for and cannot accept that our socioeconomic model is effective and functional unlike his.

Hence, the State of Israel has no time for allies who apologize for its existence. Security is non-negotiable. If a former ally chooses hostility over truth, perhaps it is time to cut ties. Let’s face it.

Although our love and passion for “Sefarad” is an endless emotional bond, maybe it is time to leave as in 1492, and pray that one day we will be able to relaunch relations between both countries based on genuine mutual respect and support.

Today, our serious and loyal partner is Morocco — not Sánchez’s Spain.

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez is an American-Israeli scholar specializing in Israel Studies.

Lev holds a B.S. in Neuroscience with a Minor in Israel Studies from The American University – Washington, DC, completed a bioethics course at Harvard University and a medical degree, and has three master’s degrees in International Geostrategy and Jihadist Terrorism (INISEG, Madrid), Applied Economics (UNED, Madrid), and Security and Intelligence Studies (Bellevue University, NE). In addition to this, he is also a former sergeant in the IDF Special Forces ‘Ghost’ unit and a U.S. Army veteran.

Fluent in several languages, Lev has authored over 200 academic and non-academic texts, is a member of the Association for Israel Studies, and serves as a radio analyst for several radio and television networks in Latin America.