Newsletter
Newsletter Support JNS

Sudan’s military ruler says ready to visit the Jewish state

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is committed to “reconciliation” with Israel.

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of Sudan. Source: Screenshot.
Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan of Sudan. Source: Screenshot.

Sudanese military ruler Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says the driving force behind his country’s ties with Israel is a desire for “reconciliation” and that he will travel to the Jewish state if invited. “The basis of relations is reconciliation. Therefore, if an invitation was presented and there is the means for this, I will go,” Burhan told the Associated Press, in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N General Assembly published this weekend. Khartoum and Jerusalem agreed to normalize relations in October 2020 as part of the United States-brokered Abraham Accords, a series of deals that formalized diplomatic ties between Israel and three other Arab nations. Months earlier, al-Burhan met with then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Uganda, in a diplomatic breakthrough that paved the way for Sudan to forge a rapprochement with Israel following decades of animosity. The two countries have since developed security and intelligence ties, with officials meetings repeatedly in unannounced trips. However, the process stalled significantly amid divisions over a power-sharing agreement between the Sudanese military and civilian government that culminated in a coup last year.

After promoting trade and cooperation in Arkansas, Yisrael Ganz warns that sanctions strengthen the P.A. and undermine regional stability.
Israel’s war is against Hezbollah, not Lebanon, said the Israeli premier, who emphasized that Israelis yearn for peace with Beirut.
Israeli soldiers continue to operate in Southern Lebanon, as the 91st Division eliminates more than 35 terrorists in a week.
The military said that a weapons cache was hit and drone sites were dismantled.
Iranian and U.S. officials held separate talks with interlocutors in Doha over the past two days, a regional source said.
“These acts amount to the war crimes of murder and torture, and abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law,” according to the report.