Haaretz stated that what it described as the good relations between the Israeli political and security leadership with the military authorities in Sudan has revived normalization efforts.
The Sudanese government has been concealing, until this moment, the visit of an Israeli delegation to the country within the framework of resuming communication between the two sides to normalize relations between them, as the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation announced that an Israeli plane landed at Khartoum Airport on Thursday.
No clarification was issued by the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, nor by the army, which has been managing the normalization file since its launch in 2020, away from other institutions.
“The visit of the Israeli security delegation comes within the framework of joint security coordination and exchange of information between Sudan and Israel,” Hussein Qamar, head of the preparatory committee for the Sudanese-Israeli Friendship Association (unofficial), told Anadolu Agency.
The head of the association pointed out that “this is not the first visit of the Israeli delegation to Khartoum.”
It is noteworthy that in September 2020, the Sudanese Council of Ministers prevented the official inauguration of the activities of the “Sudanese-Israeli Friendship” association.
The army commander, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, was the first to initiate rapprochement with Israel, as he met in February 2020 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Ugandan city of Entebbe, amid objection from the government of then Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, which considered the move an interference in its powers in terms of foreign relations. And a parallel objection from the parties forming the government, and some of them have principled positions against normalization with Israel.
Despite these positions, Sudan then proceeded on the path of normalization through continuous communication between the two parties, and this culminated in the signing by the Minister of Justice in Hamdok’s government in January 2021 of the “Abraham” Declaration.
Also, in April 2021, the Sudanese government passed a law repealing an old law approved in 1958 to boycott Israel, which prohibits political and commercial contact and all forms of contact with Israel, and imposes penalties of up to 10 years in prison, a financial fine, and confiscation for those who violate the provisions of the law.
