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Formally, the two countries have been at war for decades. Sudan fought on the side of neighboring Egypt against Israel in 1967 and for many years supported hardline Islamist groups. But now the hatchet was buried.
“Sudan and Israel have agreed to normalize relations,” he said in a statement signed by the United States in addition to the parties.
It was also United States President Donald Trump who first broke the news, immediately after he removed Sudan from the list of countries the United States considers sponsoring terrorism on Friday. A decision that is open to US aid and international investment and has been greatly requested by the transitional government in Khartoum.
Feather in Trump’s hat
The announcement of the peace agreement is a diplomatic feather in the hat of Trump, who with little more than a week to the US presidential election is behind challenger Joe Biden in opinion polls.
In September, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed similar agreements, and Trump has predicted that more Arab countries will join, including Saudi Arabia.
From Palestine, which is becoming increasingly isolated as the united front of Arab countries against Israel dissolves, competitors PLO and Hamas agree to distance themselves from the deal with Sudan.
The office of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “condemns” the agreement, while Hamas calls Sudan’s decision a “political sin.”
Damages for terrorist acts
Trump revealed his plan to abolish Sudan’s blacklist earlier this week. Soon after, Israel sent a delegation to Khartoum to discuss normalization of relations.
According to Washington, Sudan has agreed to pay $ 335 million, equivalent to nearly three billion crowns, to avoid the blacklist.
The money will go to survivors of the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. The terrorist attack was carried out by al-Qaeda, which had a haven in Sudan under then-dictator Omar al-Bashir.
