Israeli newspapers paid wide attention to the meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in Uganda, and one of them said that Israel and Sudan began forming committees to work on how to develop cooperation between them and establish diplomatic relations.
The Jerusalem Post newspaper - which published the news about these committees - did not provide any additional details about it, noting that the meeting between Netanyahu and Al-Burhan sparked silent reactions by the Sudanese government, which only announced that it had not been informed in advance of this meeting.
The Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, and Yediot Aharonot indicated that the UAE had coordinated and arranged for this meeting in Entebbe in Uganda, and that the most important motive for Abu Dhabi was to convince Washington that it had a wide influence among Arab and African countries, as well as convincing these countries that it had influence with Israel, which is the gate Home to America.
It is not used to Hamdok.
The Jerusalem Post said that Sudanese Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok - who was on a visit to Djibouti - did not make any statement there about the Burhan meeting with Netanyahu, and the Sudan Tribune newspaper was quoted as saying that this abstention from Hamdok is not usual.
However, the same newspaper said in another report that the proof cast doubt on the speed of normalization of relations with Israel, and said that his country's position on the Palestinian issue will continue without change, and that the responsibility for establishing relations between the two countries rests with the concerned institutions, in a clear reference to the civilian government. .
The newspaper commented that the normalization of relations between the two parties - which has never happened in history - is likely to provoke anger in Sudan and the wider Arab world, especially at a time when Netanyahu is promoting an American peace plan rejected by the Palestinians.
A diplomatic breakthrough,
Yedioth Ahronoth reported, that the secret meeting of Burhan with Netanyahu sparked heated discussions in Sudan, as some accuse the proof of meekness and subservience to the administration of US President Donald Trump, and others say that relations with Israel are beneficial.
The Jerusalem Post: Hamdok, when he was in Djibouti before his return yesterday, refused to make any comments unusual (European)
As for Israel - Yediot Aharonot says - this meeting represents "a major diplomatic breakthrough with an Arab African country", just two days after the Arab League rejected Trump's plan for Middle East peace.
The newspaper pointed out that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo welcomed Netanyahu's negotiations, Al-Burhan, in Uganda, and thanked the former for his leadership of normalization with Israel, and invited him to visit the United States later this year.
Al-Burhan rejected the pictures with Netanyahu
, and the same newspaper said that although Netanyahu says that Sudan wants to change its ways and obtain international legitimacy after being designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the United States, it seems that Burhan is still not ready to commit to full relations with the "Jewish state."
She added that - contrary to Israel's expectations - the meeting between Netanyahu, the proof that took place after months of secret talks, was not concluded with a joint declaration of diplomatic relations or even with pictures of the two leaders together, yet it seems that he achieved his goal for Sudan by inviting Al-Burhan to visit America, and this "will give the leader Sudanese are internationally recognized. "
As for Israel, Netanyahu - Haaretz says - was looking forward to taking pictures with al-Burhan to help his election campaign, but al-Burhan refused for fear of criticism from the Arab world, and he, that is, Netanyahu, wants to open the Sudanese airspace to Israeli civil aviation, which will shorten the distance between Tel Aviv and many overseas stations, including Brazil.
A quarter of the refugees in Israel are Sudanese, and
according to Haaretz, Israel wants to return the Sudanese in it to their country, as they total about seven thousand and make up about a quarter of the migrants who seek asylum in it, most of them from Darfur.
The newspaper published a long report on the concern of these refugees about the normalization of relations between Khartoum and Tel Aviv, as they believe that it will strip them of any pretext to seek asylum and help the Israeli courts to reject their applications.