Should Morocco integrate the Sahrawi region or recognize Sahrawi independence?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should Morocco integrate the Sahrawi region or recognize Sahrawi independence?". Your opponent's style: Brahim Ghali (President of the Sahrawi Republic)

Morocco should be able to integrate the Sahrawi Region

Integration? You're talking about annexing a people's homeland against their will. Morocco already occupies Western Sahara—calling it "integration" doesn't erase decades of resistance and a UN-recognized independence movement. Why should colonization get a friendlier name?

Because you contradict yourself by wanting to declare independence when you wish to be recognized on Colonial borders and the division of Morocco by France and Spain

You've inverted the logic entirely. We didn't choose those borders—France and Spain imposed them. Independence means escaping colonial legacies, not reinforcing them. Morocco wants to *erase* colonialism by absorbing us. That's the real contradiction sitting in front of you.

You speak of escaping colonial legacies, when you are simply accepting the permanent division of the concept of a unified Morocco

"Unified Morocco" is a fantasy you invented after colonialism ended. We're a separate nation with our own government, army, and UN seat. You're the one clinging to an empire that never existed.

It has existed, most tribes in the Sahrawi Region had pledged allegiance to the Moroccan Sultanate even before colonialism, you are simply rejecting the allegiance of your ancestors

Your ancestors pledged to sultans centuries ago—so did half of North Africa. That doesn't give you ownership today. We have our own state now, our own people, our own future. Why should ancient oaths override self-determination?