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US President Donald Trump said on Friday that at least five other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, want to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
This comes after Sudan became the last country in the region to normalize its relations with Tel Aviv.
Trump told reporters in the White House: “There are at least five Arab countries that want to join”, expecting Saudi Arabia to normalize its relations with Israel.
On Friday the White House announced that Sudan and Israel had reached an agreement to normalize relations, following similar treaties between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel last month.
“We have at least five who want to join,” Trump told reporters in the White House during a three-way phone conversation with prime ministers of Israel and Sudan.
Trump described the peace deal between Sudan and Israel as being conducted without “a drop of blood in the sand” during a joint appeal with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok, Sudanese Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan , and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, during the announcement of the normalization of relations.
US President Donald Trump during a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Sudanese counterpart Abdullah HamdokThis step coincides with the White House announcement on Friday that Trump informed Congress of his intention to remove Sudan from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
For his part, Netanyahu said other Arab countries would make peace with Israel, adding: “We will soon be discussing joint cooperation with Sudan and Sudanese airspace will be opened to us.”
“Israel will not oppose Washington selling advanced American weapons to the Emirates,” he added, stressing that Israel does not oppose any agreement with Iran, but opposed the latest agreement.
#NetanyahuOther Arab countries will make peace with #Israel… and we will discuss joint cooperation with # Sudan Sudanese airspace will soon be open to us#Arabic pic.twitter.com/6bees4Knic
– (@AlArabiya) 23 October 2020
Sudanese political forces have declared their categorical rejection of normalization with Israel, including the National Umma Party, which is within the ruling coalition, and the Nasserite Democratic Unionist Party.
Trump decided this week to remove Sudan from the list of U.S. sponsoring terrorism, paving the way for the deal with Israel, in what represents a foreign policy achievement for Trump as he seeks to win a new term, while polls opinion points indicate that it lags behind its Democratic rival, Joe Biden.
The normalization of relations with Sudan has great symbolism. After the 1967 setback and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, most Arab leaders met at a summit in Khartoum.
They have adopted a resolution known as the “three no”, which is neither reconciliation nor recognition nor negotiation with Israel.
Sudan has no borders with Israel (the same goes for the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain), and has played a small role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Last February, the head of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, held a meeting with the Israeli prime minister in Uganda.
A Sudanese government source revealed on Thursday that a joint US-Israeli delegation visited Khartoum on Wednesday and met with Burhan and discussed normalization of Sudanese-Israeli relations with him.
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