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Because the peninsula and the straight are too important, Gibraltar too small, and Morocco too unreliable and poor. We agreed to join under very questionable circumstances. The transitional government signed the adhesion before there even were elections under the new regime, and everyone else immediately went along, even those who had previously positioned themselves against it. We had a sham referendum a couple of years later with weird wording and the aforementioned establishment behind it, but the deal was already signed. The whole thing was planned and supervised by the CIA.