Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added: "Today, Khartoum is saying yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel and yes to normalization with Israel. This is a new era, an era of true peace - peace that is proceeding and widening with additional Arab countries. Three in the last few weeks." It is indeed a new era.
These "Abraham Accords" have already changed the entire landscape of the Middle East, as for the first time in decades, pragmatic considerations are taking precedence over the fixed ideas that have guided the foreign policy stances of all the Muslim and Arab countries regarding Israel.
Even though it is a historical fiction that Israel actually drove Muslim Arabs out, this claim is a staple of pro-Palestinian propaganda, and hence it is a divine imperative, no more negotiable than the Ten Commandments are for Jews and Christians, that Muslims must destroy Israel and "Drive out" the Israelis.
Why did Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and now Sudan normalize relations with Israel? Because it was in their interests to do so.
In a certain sense, these deals with Israel are a byproduct of Barack Obama's decision to send billions to the mullahs' tottering regime: a newly secure and empowered mullahcracy threatens Bahrain and the UAE, and so it was in their best interests to look for assistance from a country that Iran also menaces.
Do Sudanese, Bahraini and Emirati authorities regard their deals with Israel as akin to the Treaty of Hudaybiyya, which Yasir Arafat famously invoked to mollify enraged Muslims after concluding the Oslo Accords? The possibility cannot be discounted, and the Israelis would be foolhardy to proceed without bearing in mind Ronald Reagan's old adage, Trust, but verify.
In this case, Sudan, the UAE and Bahrain have demonstrated that their priorities are not to foster the growth of the jihad against Israel, and that's all to the good.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/10/trump-effect-sudan-joins-uae-and-bahrain-robert-spencer/
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