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The Trump administration scores another win for peace

by Washington Examiner, 

 

November 02, 2020 12:00 AM

 

Although subsumed by the final week of election campaigning, we congratulate Sudan, Israel, and the United States on another landmark diplomatic agreement. The exchange of full diplomatic relations between Sudan and Israel is the third such Israeli-Arab agreement in two months.

This achievement is not only historic but also morally and mutually beneficial.

Many of those who scorn or underplay this agreement do so on the basis that it was won only by bribes. These critics have very few facts to support their thesis. In a recent interview, Sudan's transitional government leader, Abdel-Fattah Burhan, pushed back against the idea Sudan had been pressured into recognizing Israel. "We were not blackmailed over normalization,” Burhan said, adding that the deal was “in the interest of Sudan.” He noted that by recognizing Israel and winning removal from the U.S. sponsors-of-terrorism list, Sudan will "return to the international community. We will benefit economically and get technology."

Sudan sees that its interests are best served by peaceful interaction with Israel, rather than by some delusional notion that it would better be served by loyalty to Hamas in Gaza.

This understanding is the critical foundation behind all the peace deals that Israel has recently reached. After all, what government in its right mind could claim that its people would be well served by submission to the corrupt Palestinian political class — Fatah in the West Bank and the terrorist polity of Hamas in the Gaza Strip? Especially, that is, when the alternative is engagement with a vibrant, diverse economy that offers significant trade, intelligence, and diplomatic benefits.

If we accept that an important measure of a government’s success is that which it accomplishes for the improved lives of its people at the margins, this agreement will do just that. Sudan’s top export is energy supplies, and Israel has need of just that. What benefit would the Sudanese people have accrued by continued rejection of diplomatic relations and persistence on the U.S. terrorism sponsors list?

These are real and significant diplomatic triumphs for which the Trump administration deserves much credit. None of these agreements would have been possible without U.S. leadership and mediation. It was the Trump administration that persuaded the United Arab Emirates to take the leap and push aside decades of acrimony and mutual disdain. While the UAE has, in recent years, advanced its diplomatic and intelligence relationship with Israel, its move toward an official state of peaceful diplomatic relations was incredibly important. It represented both a formal and symbolic shift on the part of the Saudi-led Sunni Arab monarchies to approach Israel as a partner rather than an untrustworthy foe. It cleared the way for other nations to do so. More than that, it established that a peaceful new chapter with Israel need not mean mass rioting or attacks from Iran. We believe that what the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan have now done encourages Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to reach his own agreement with Israel.

Americans have gained from these deals. In return for its removal from the U.S. terrorism list, Sudan has put more than $300 million into an escrow account for the American families of victims lost in the 1998 Khartoum embassy bombing. And now, benefiting from sanctions relief, Sudan also now knows that any temptation to flirt with a return to terrorism will come with a lot of financial as well as political costs.

Well done, Sudan. Well done, Israel. Well done, America.

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