Israel and Sudan officially announced: Normalization of relations

The United States, Israel, and Sudan officially announced Friday the normalization of relations between Khartoum and Jerusalem - a move that ends decades of hostility. According to the announcement, US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudanese leaders' Abd al-Fatah al-Burhan and Abdullah Hamduk spoke today and discussed "the historic process that Sudan is undergoing for democracy" and the promotion of peace in the region.
A senior source says that within the framework of the agreement, the agreements between Israel and Sudan are also being formed on the return of the infiltrators. According to him, this is a volume of several hundred refugees a year in the initial phase, which will be defined as a pilot.
Trump invited reporters to the Oval Office in the White House while he was on the phone with Israeli and Sudanese leaders, telling them that "Israel and Sudan have agreed to make peace and normalize relations. This is one of the greatest days in Sudan's history." Netanyahu later said: "This is a new world. We are cooperating with everyone and building a better future for all of us." Reuters also noted that Netanyahu welcomed the "rapidly expanding peace circle."
According to Trump, "Many more countries will join in the coming weeks and months, and I am sure that Saudi Arabia will join as well. The Palestinians also want to do something." He further noted that "at least five countries want to join the agreements with Israel," and also said that "I can see Iran joining as well. I would be happy to help them." Netanyahu said in response to Trump's remarks that "I do not oppose the agreement with Iran, I only opposed the last agreement (the nuclear agreement)." He added that another agreement with Iran "would be welcomed".
Netanyahu called the agreement a "dramatic breakthrough for peace," adding that Sudan's accession was a "tremendous upheaval." He said, "In Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, the three members of the Arab League were adopted in 1967 - not for peace with Israel, not for recognition of Israel and not for negotiations with Israel." "A new era, of true peace that is expanding with other Arab countries - three of them in recent weeks."
Netanyahu said that "Sudan and Israel delegations will soon meet to discuss cooperation in many areas, including agriculture, trade and other areas important to our citizens. Sudan's skies are open to Israel today, and this allows for direct and short flights between Israel and Africa and South America."
The Prime Minister thanked the leaders of Sudan and Trump, and signed his statement: "We are expanding the circle of peace. What excitement, yes they will multiply. Shabbat Shalom."
Those who were not happy with the agreement were the Palestinians, who strongly condemned it as they did even after the agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. A senior PLO official, Wassel Abu Yussef, said that "Sudan's decision to normalize relations with Israel is a new stab in the back for us." Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Sudan's move "is a step in the wrong direction."
Meanwhile, Netanyahu and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz removed their opposition to the United States selling F-35s to the United Arab Emirates. The deal between the United Arab Emirates and the United States was first revealed in Yedioth Ahronoth. Netanyahu, by the way, tweeted after the same revelation that Yedioth Ahronoth published a complete Pike News today, "adding the Prime Minister's Office's response from that day, according to which" the historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates did not include any agreement between Israel and the United States. The Emirates. "
According to the joint statement to Israel, Sudan and the US, the leaders agreed to start economic and trade ties with an initial focus on agriculture. Sudan from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism has helped pave the way for an agreement between Khartoum and Jerusalem.
Trump today officially announced to Congress his intention to remove Sudan from the list of countries that support terrorism - after Khartoum transferred $ 335 million in compensation to American victims of terrorism. Sudan demanded that the announcement of the normalization agreement with Israel be made in parallel with the announcement of its removal from the list of terrorists.
Until recently, normalization of relations with Israel has been the subject of severe controversy between the civilian government and the military sovereignty council in Sudan. Recall that while al-Burhan pushed for normalization of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Abdullah Hamduk opposed.
However, ahead of the US presidential election, US pressure on Khartoum to agree to US terms increased - and it was eventually agreed that Trump would tweet this week that Sudan would pay the compensation, and in return the US would remove it from the list of pro-terrorism countries. Israel was not mentioned in Trump's tweet, but even then it was clear that normalization of relations was approaching.
Senior Sudanese officials told Reuters yesterday that Hamduk would agree to establish relations with Israel "if the Legislative Council, once formed, approves the decision to normalize relations." In practice, elections in Sudan are expected to take place only in 2022 - and until then, the civilian government and the military sovereignty council will rule side by side. The report yesterday was exceptional, as so far the Sudanese government has not even expressed agreement in principle to sign the Israel agreement - but only claimed that it is not within its authority.
Some senior Sudanese have feared a link between removing the country from the list of terrorists and an agreement with Israel, arguing that a hastily concluded deal could ignite civilian opposition - and perhaps even strengthen support for Islamist factions that found themselves on the sidelines following the ouster of Omar al-Bashir.
Senior Israeli officials - including officials at the National Security Council and the Prime Minister's and Intelligence Offices - flew to Khartoum last Wednesday, estimating that an agreement would be announced in a few days. , Members of the delegation that participated in the discussions sponsored by the United Arab Emirates last month - discussions in which al-Burhan and the Minister of Justice also participated.