The Associated Press quoted Sudanese officials as saying that civilian leaders prefer to wait for normalization with Israel until after the US elections, while military leaders stress the need to accelerate normalization.
The officials - who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to inform the media - stated that the military leaders are seeking to reach a speedy agreement between the United States and Sudan, including normalization with Israel in exchange for an aid package.
The officials said that the army feared the possibility of withdrawing the incentives now offered after the US elections, but one of the points of contention with the Americans is the size of future aid to Sudan.
Commenting on the meeting that ended in Abu Dhabi between Sudanese, American and Emirati officials last month, a Sudanese official who participated in it said that less than one billion dollars in cash was offered, which the UAE will pay mostly.
The Sudanese team requested 3 billion dollars to help save the Sudanese economy.
And the Associated Press reports that statements by military leaders in Sudan have become more explicit in support of normalization with Israel, as part of a quick deal with Washington before the US elections.
It quoted General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo (Hamidati), deputy head of the sovereign council, as telling a local TV station on Friday, "Now, whether we like it or not, removing (Sudan from the terrorism list) is linked to (normalization) with Israel."
"We need Israel ... Israel is a developed country and the whole world is working with it," Hemedti said, adding, "We will benefit from such relations ... We hope that everyone will consider Sudan's interests."
The agency comments on this by saying that it was not possible to think of such statements until recently, in a country where popular hostility to Israel is still strong.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok - the highest civilian official in the ruling coalition in Sudan - said that the transitional government does not have a mandate to decide on foreign policy issues of this size.
Hamdok urged - during US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Khartoum last month - to proceed with removing Sudan from the list of states sponsoring terrorism, and not linking it to recognition of Israel.
"The matter needs to be discussed in depth within our community," he told reporters earlier this week.
During the past days, Israeli and American media reports said that Khartoum agreed to normalization with Tel Aviv in the event that Sudan was removed from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism and that it obtained aid from Washington.
Sudan had previously agreed with the US State Department in theory on a compensation deal for the victims of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which were orchestrated by the Al Qaeda network during the stay of its late leader Osama bin Laden in Sudan.
On October 6, 2017, the administration of US President Donald Trump lifted economic sanctions and a trade embargo that had been imposed on Sudan since 1997.
But it did not remove his name from the list of terrorism inscribed on it since 1993, for hosting the late leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.