An Israeli writer described the history of relations between Israel and Sudan as complex and full of twists, ups and downs, bribes, weapons, money, weapons-and-human smuggling conspiracies, and regional hub conflicts.

Author Yossi Melman said in an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, in Uganda last Sunday is just another chapter in the thorny history of the relationship between the two countries, noting that Netanyahu is currently aspiring for Sudan to join a "club" Friends of Israel made up of Sunni Arab countries.

Chapter one
He pointed out that the opening chapter of the history of the relationship between the two countries took place in the first half of the fifties when the Sudanese Umma Party - which is the largest political party in the country - began a relationship with Israel to help it face the pressure of the federal parties "calling for union with Egypt" and then Egyptian leader Gamal Al-Nasser, As the Umma Party was working for the complete independence of Sudan from the Egyptian-English bilateral rule.

He drew attention to the secret meeting in London in 1956, which was covered in several media recently between the late Siddiq al-Mahdi - the father of the current party leader Sadiq al-Mahdi - and a number of members of the Israeli embassy in the British capital.

The author published a document in the Hebrew language, which is a message from the Israeli embassy in London to her country’s foreign ministry, on its communication with the Sudanese Umma Party, and on an Israeli plan to invite representatives of the party to visit Israel and provide financial support to it.

The father of Sadiq al-Mahdi, head of the Sudanese Umma Party (second from left in the first row), was the first to initiate relations between Sudan and Israel (Al-Jazeera)

The influence of Nasiriyah
Yossi Melman said that the honeymoon in the relations between the two countries was interrupted with the coup of General Ibrahim Abboud in 1958, to become Sudan and because of the influence of Nasserism at the time from the enemies of Israel to the extent that he declared war against it and participated in the Six-Day War of June 1976, and during the decade that followed War There were no relationships or contacts, whether secret or overt.

Meanwhile, Melman says, Israel has done the same thing that says "my enemy's enemy is my friend", and has been busy supporting the rebellion led by General Joseph Lago in southern Sudan militarily and financially in the 1960s and 1972.

During the period from 1977 to 1980, Israel implemented, with the cooperation of former Sudanese President Jaafar al-Numayri and the head of his security service, Omar Muhammad al-Tayyib, the deportation of Ethiopian Jews "flashers" in which a Jewish organization in America paid $ 30 million to Numeiri to facilitate the process.

Sudan is a corridor and weapons store
In 1981, the former Israeli Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon secretly met President Jaafar al-Numayri in Kenya with the assistance of Israeli businessman Yaakov Nimrodi and Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi and Mossad official David Qamhi, and the two sides agreed to turn Sudan into a store of weapons that would be used to overthrow the Khomeini regime In Iran, the inauguration of Ibn al-Shah as the new ruler of Iran, and to support the rebels in Chad to install a government friendly to Israel, which is looking to control the uranium available there.

According to the author, during the rule of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir - especially from 1990 to 1996 - Sudan embraced Al Qaeda, established strong ties with Iran, and made its territory a conduit for weapons smuggled by the Iranian Quds Force to the Gaza Strip.

Salah Qosh met at the end of the reign of al-Bashir, head of the Mossad, to establish relations with Israel (French)

From 2009 until the overthrow of the Bashir regime, the Israeli Air Force carried out numerous raids in Sudanese territory against weapons depots, boats, and trucks carrying Iranian weapons.

Al-Bashir is courting Israel
After the announcement by Al-Bashir of the International Criminal Court and some of his regime’s leaders wanted for her, Al-Bashir’s relationship with Iran has waned, as he began to approach Saudi Arabia and flirt with Israel, hoping to influence the American administration through the Zionist lobby in the United States, to rid him of the International Criminal Court and return him to the international community in exchange for establishing formal relations with Israel.

In the late days of Al-Bashir in power, the head of his security service, General Salah Gosh, was sent to meet with Mossad chief Yossi Cohen, but the revolution that broke out in Sudan cut that communication.

Israeli insistence
With the departure of al-Bashir, the Israeli writer Melman says that conditions can be created to revive relations between the two countries. With the support of US President Donald Trump and various Gulf states, the Netanyahu government has quietly renewed, but with passion for its efforts to transform Sudan into a Sunni Arab regional, friendly to Israel, and initially made a small immediate request Ordinary is to allow Israeli aircraft to fly over Sudanese airspace.

The writer concluded his article that reviving relations between the two countries will not be easy with a political opposition that stands in the way of proof and accuses him of cooperating with the enemy, adding that Netanyahu's immediate political interest is controlling the titles to improve the chances of his re-election, even though Moshe Yaalon, a former Israeli defense minister opposed to Netanyahu, says that The meeting between Netanyahu and the proof had to be kept secret for the sake of Israel's interests, and not to gasp for narrow and short-term personal political gains.