The American Al-Monitor website quoted sources close to the Sudanese government as saying that full normalization with Israel will take some time, and will be linked to developments in the Israeli-Palestinian arena and other areas.
He also quoted a senior Israeli security official - whose name the website did not reveal - as saying, "If, for example, there is a major escalation between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied territories or on the Temple Mount, you can forget about the official normalization with Sudan."
And Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen had revealed that Tel Aviv had presented a draft peace agreement with Sudan that would be signed during this year, after his meeting with the head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council in Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan - last Thursday - in the capital, Khartoum. Sudanese opposition forces condemned this step.
After the meeting, Cohen said, "We return from Khartoum with yes 3 times, for peace, negotiations, and recognition of Israel," explaining that the peace agreement with Sudan will be signed this year.
He pointed out that Tel Aviv submitted a draft peace agreement to Sudan and that it would be signed after the formation of the civilian government there.
In an analysis he published under the title, “Are Israel and Sudan moving towards normalization of relations? This will not happen quickly,” Al-Monitor indicated that the process of normalization with Khartoum gives the Israeli prime minister the opportunity to show his diplomatic goodwill at a time when Israel is witnessing internal turmoil. However, the process of normalization This may take some time.
The American site reported the opinion of Haim Koren, Israel's first ambassador to South Sudan, who recalled that Sudan had already joined the Abraham Accords, and Koren saw that what is happening now is an attempt to restore momentum to the agreement, increase cooperation and strengthen efforts to reach real normalization, "there is a difference." between signing the agreement and the mechanism itself.
Koren claims that there is no significant internal opposition in Sudan to the process of normalization with Israel, and that the Islamic movement in the country does not oppose it.
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The site quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the main obstacles that stand in the way of strengthening relations between Israel and Sudan stem from the nature of the regime in Sudan, which is not advancing quickly enough in adopting democratic standards.
He pointed out that Israel targeted Sudan many times in the past with raids on convoys that were passing through its territory carrying weapons and ammunition coming from Iran and destined for Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
He also quoted a senior Israeli military source as saying that "those days are long gone," explaining that "Sudan has chosen to stand by the West and the moderate Sunni countries, and by Israel. But these things take time. The regime there is still paramilitary, and there it is." There are many obstacles to achieving democracy and human rights, and achieving change after 30 years of dictatorship is difficult, but not impossible.