A messy geopolitical fight is playing out over claims that Israel helped engineer a migrant surge into Spanish territory, and it looks bad for Morocco, Spain, and European unity alike.

• After Morocco signed the Abraham Accords with Israel, it became tangled in Israel's rivalries — and Israeli and pro-Israel writers openly urged Morocco to push migrants toward Spain's enclaves before it happened.
• Around 60,000 people crossed into the tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla; 34 died, and half turned back within a day because there was no food or water.
• Spain had angered Israel by refusing US access to its bases during the Iran campaign and by opposing the war in Gaza, and Netanyahu had warned Spain would "pay a price."
• The move backfired on Morocco: instead of weakening Spain's leftist PM Pedro Sanchez, it made Spain look like the victim, while right-wing European governments turned on it and pushed to sideline it in the EU.
• The bigger payoff for Israel may be splitting Europe and isolating the few states — Spain, Ireland, Slovenia — that have stood against the Gaza war, while pro-Israel voices use the chaos to stoke anti-Muslim sentiment.

Outlook: The gambit appears to have failed against Sanchez, but the deeper damage to EU cohesion and Morocco-Spain relations will linger.