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Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel
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Sudan’s Sovereign Council chief General Abdel Fattah al- Burhan speaks in the capital Khartoum, Sept. 26, 2020.
Sudan to Normalize Ties with Israel
RON KAMPEAS JTA
Sudan will become the third Arab country in the past two months to normalize relations with Israel, continuing the trend of Arab states’ willingness to advance ties even without a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
President Donald Trump announced the agreement on Oct. 23. According to a joint statement by Israel, Sudan and the U.S., the two countries will “end the state of belligerence between their nations.”
The statement also noted that the countries will “begin economic and trade relations, with an initial focus on agriculture.” In the coming weeks, the statement says, they will meet to discuss “agriculture technology, aviation, migration issues and other areas.”
“The Arab-Israeli conflict is moving toward an end,” said Brian Hook, the top State Department official who helped broker the deal.
Sudan has been ruled by a Sovereignty Council, led by military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and prime minister Abdalla Hamdok, since a military coup last year deposed longtime Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who was subsequently convicted of corruption. He presided over the country during the Darfur ethnic conflict, which involved what the International Criminal Court has deemed war crimes by the Sudanese government.
Earlier on Oct. 23, Trump informed Congress of his intent to remove Sudan’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, which reportedly is part of the agreement.
Sudan will get new leadership in 2022, when the state’s agreed-upon transition period ends. The north African country’s state religion was Islam until earlier this year.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have in recent weeks launched fast tracks to open up diplomatic affairs, trade and tourism with Israel, but Sudan is especially significant because it is by far the largest of the three countries, in land mass and in population. It is also symbolically significant because its capital, Khartoum, is where the Arab League met in 1967 after the Six-Day War and issued its “three no’s” to reject any engagement with Israel whatsoever and to continue the state of war.
In 1984, the Sudanese authorities assisted in an airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Sudan’s leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in February met openly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Uganda.
There are also thousands of refugees from Sudan’s military conflicts living in Israel.
