On Friday, President Donald J. Trump brokered a historic peace agreement between Israel and Sudan. According to the President, “They are choosing a future in which Arabs and Israelis, Muslims, Jews, and Christians can live together, pray together, and dream together, side by side, in harmony, community, and peace.”According to the press release on the White House website, Sudan became the third country to normalize relations with Israel, after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
However, this news was not welcome at all back in Sudan. Sudan political parties reject the deal and see it as betrayal on the part of the Sudanese transitional government. A statement made by Sudan’s Popular Congress, the second most influential political coalition states that the people are not bound by the treaty and not obligated to accept it. In fact they say that, “our people will abide by their historical positions and work through a broad front to resist normalization and maintain our support for the Palestinian people in order for them to obtain all their legitimate rights.”
Historically, Sudan went to war with Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the Six-Day war in 1967, even though it did not participate in the Suez canal crisis of 1956. So, we are already seeing geopolitics in play here, and in my perspective, brokering a peace agreement between Israel and the rest of the Arab world is not conceivable, at least not in the near future. I can even affirm it will be an utopia given in the exception of these three countries that have expressed good intentions, the rest are already “gnashing their teeth.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/24/sudans-political-parties-reject-israeli-normalisation-deal