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This is certainly an interesting framing, given that 120 countries reportedly supported Morocco's proposal of the western sahara under Moroccon sovereign control in the distant long past of... current year.
Truly, a mere 60% of the nations of the Untied Nations on board during contemporarily international negotiations is such lonely, and jewish, company.
This is also an interesting framing, given not just the aforementioned UN nations apparently outside the international community, but African nations supporting Morocco in nparticular.
Normally I'd be inclined to snark about Europeans conflating European diplomatic consensus with the world, except the recent Morocco proposal is backed by such notable American vassals / puppet states / your pejorative of choice, as France and Spain.
Instead, I'm inclined to note the historical context that the historical high point of UN and international community support for Western Sahara was back during the Cold War, with a relative silence in the two and a half decades since then. This not so coincidentally coincided with how Morocco's chief opponent on the Western Sahara issue, Algeria, was a major beneficiary of Soviet sponsorship, while Morocco generally aligned with the western block. In turn, Soviet sponsorship included much of the sort of military aid that Algeria provided to the Polisario Front, one of the major western saharan freedom fighter groups you refer to. As was normal in those time, as the Soviet Union freedom fighter aid went, so did the diplomatic votes of the soviet block, especially in the global south where the pro-Algerian position was the anti-imperialist / anti-western thematic vote as well.
Once the Soviet sponsorship and anti-capitalist politics faded with the Soviet Union, so to did international support for Algeria and western sahara as a cold war proxy issue. Which might be why more than half of the UN states had withdrawn their recognition of the Sarhawi Arab Democratic Republic during the 2000s and 2010s.
Which is not normally something the whole of the international community does... if you consider 80-odd states (which is 40 less than 120, I might add) 'the whole international community.'
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