"The statements of the Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman, the article, Haider Badawi, and the lengthy press conference he held later on normalization with Israel, set the stage for a close agreement between the two countries." This is how the diplomat saw the matter as part of a plan that paves the way for what is to come.
Badawi told Al-Jazeera Net that a decision had already been issued to dismiss him from the position of the ministry’s spokesman, but - according to him - he still works at the Foreign Ministry.
Perhaps it appeared that there was a crisis between Haydar Badawi and the Minister-designate Omar Qamar al-Din. Following the recent denial of Badawi's statements regarding ongoing contacts between Sudan and Israel in order to normalize relations, and then hasten on Wednesday to dismiss him from the position of Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The witness said that Badawi and Qamar al-Din had a session between them before the first appearance at a press conference Tuesday evening, in which he admitted that the statements related to normalization were a personal position for him as a revolutionary citizen before enumerating the fruits of normalization, according to what sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman coincided with his controversial statements by publishing an article on the "Sudan's Online" website, which has a popular following, in which he said, "I say to all Sudanese: Speak up with Israel. I say to Presidents Al-Burhan and Hamdok: Respect your people and reveal to them what is going on in secret about the relationship with Israel." ".
Consistent position
The position of the foreign ministry regarding the ambiguity with which Khartoum manages the file of normalization with Tel Aviv appears consistent with the position of the Republican Party, which belongs to its idea.
The political secretary of the Republican Party, Haider Al-Safi, confirms that there were contacts between the two leaderships in the sovereign and ministerial councils that preceded the meeting of the head of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in Entebbe, the Ugandan, last February.
At that time, a crisis arose following the meeting of Al-Burhan and Netanyahu, after Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok told the Cabinet that he had not been consulted about the meeting, which was also attended by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
Al-Safi said to Al-Jazeera Net that he is neither mentally nor logical, not to have contacts between the Sovereignty Council and the ministers regarding relations with Israel.
The Entebbe meeting,
the political secretary of the Republican Party believes that there is an agreement and a schedule that followed the Entebbe meeting, indicating that the discussion about the uniqueness of the proof was not continuing, but the problem - as he put it - is that dealing with a state like Israel in this way is treachery.
"There is no spokesperson for the Sudanese people, and it was necessary to provide opportunities in the corridors of universities and centers to touch the views of the Sudanese about normalization with Israel and consider Khartoum's interests," he added.
Although Ambassador Haidar Badawi has been exempted from the mission of the foreign ministry’s spokesperson, the man is still in the ministry, after he was appointed director of the planning department at the sovereign ministry, which - according to a diplomat for Al-Jazeera Net - could be close to the normalization file, in the absence of a competent department Relations with Tel Aviv.
Netanyahu had received Badawi’s statements quickly, and commented, saying that they "reflect the courageous decision taken by the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, which called for work to strengthen relations between the two countries."
The foreign
ministry’s duties The diplomatic source says it is clear that the file of normalization with Israel is managed from outside the Foreign Ministry, which is normal because the ministry is just an executive body that receives policies from higher bodies such as the presidency.
Former Foreign Ministry Ambassador Ibrahim al-Kabbashi told Al-Jazeera Net that the file of relations with Israel is not managed by the Foreign Ministry, which is originally an executive body that implements the policy of its makers at the higher level, which is currently the sovereign council.
But al-Kabbashi - who worked in the Foreign Ministry until 2005 - indicates that in the current political chaos and fluidity, an issue such as normalization with Israel swings between the heads of the Sovereignty Council and the ministers.
He adds that the state of confusion between what the foreign minister and the official spokesperson of the ministry said is expected in the absence of elected sovereign government institutions, citing the meeting of Burhan and Netanyahu without consulting the government, and Hamdok's unilateral decision to request an international mission that has political and military jurisdiction over the entire country.
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One way
and Al-Kabbashi attributes the embarrassment of the transitional government towards normalization with Israel to Sudan's historical position in support of the Palestinian cause.
But despite this, the person or people who manage contacts with Israel are still unknown to the public opinion after the death of the godfather of normalization in Sudan, Najwa Qadah Al-Dam, affected by the Corona pandemic last May.
These contacts were confirmed until Wednesday by statements by Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen, who said that there were talks between his country and Sudan.
And it is also certain that the file of normalization has become on the side of the government after the Burhan-Netanyahu meeting, which was confirmed by al-Burhan himself in a television interview following the Entebbe meeting last February, when he said that the file of relations with Israel was transferred to the civilian government.
Accordingly, the two parts of the transitional government (the Sovereignty Council and the Council of Ministers) are moving together on the road to normalization with Israel, which is just around the corner, according to observers, with all its embarrassment and its blind mines underfoot.