February 3, 2020 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan and Israel on Monday agreed to work for normalizing bilateral relations, according to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a meeting in Uganda with Abdel Fattah al-Burhan the head of the Transitional Council.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Reuters Photo)

"I met in Entebbe with the Chairman of Sudan’s Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Buharan, and we agreed to start a cooperation that will normalize relations between the two countries.

"Historical!" Netanyahu concluded.

The meeting between al-Burhan and Netanyahu which was known by a few number of people in Khartoum was organized by President Yoweri Museveni.

"Prime Minister Netanyahu believes that Sudan is headed in a new positive direction and he expressed his views to the Secretary of State of the United States of America," said Ofir Gendelman Netanyahu’s spokesman in a separate tweet.

"Al Burhan is eager to help his country modernize by taking it out of isolation and putting it on the world’s map," Gendleman further stressed.

The head of the Transitional Sovereign Council did not yet issue a statement about his meeting with Netanyahu. However, the meeting would certainly help to foster al-Burhan’s credibility in the United States when he flies to Washington in the upcoming days.

Egypt and Jordan, have established diplomatic relations with Israel after signing peace treaties in 1979 and 1994 respectively.

Leaders of other Arab countries have close relations with Israel without formal diplomatic ties like Morocco and the Sultanate of Oman.

Also, several members of the former Islamist regime showed wiliness to normalize bilateral relations with Israel saying it was in the interest of the country.

In January 2016, former Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour stated that his country "does not mind studying the possibility of normalization with Israel".

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3 February 21:35, by Langbaar

There you go! *That from Jerusalem, to Tigris and right up our Nilotic plains and valleys, the so-called evil juus (so-called israel) would span to?!!!*. Good luck fellows, remove your damn rubbish from *South Africa, Kenya and South Sudan*, we are going to bomb you to near oblivion/extinction out of our country, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.>>>>

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- 3 February 21:44, by Langbaar
  
  Fellows, I am one of the boys who will again help bomb the creeps out of our country and over our people once and for all, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM. There will be second *Auschwitz*. The evils will never ever again reach *Poland or New York* The vermin have step on the wrong people feet----us, the Dinkas/Muonyjiengs of the Sudan.>>>>
  
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  - 3 February 21:53, by Langbaar
    
    The low lives love our country and our people to death. And the vermin think, we are the same or equal to them and some of their Bantus low lives who worship the evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dog, their gulf Arab status’s paymasters, Abeshas (so-called ethiopians), some of their UN, their sleazy NGOs and some of their creeps here in the IGAD and the AU who covet our country>>>>
    
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    - 3 February 22:07, by Langbaar
      
      and our people to death fools. LOWLY INFORMED SOUTH SUDANESE. We are the ’ANCIENT EGYPTIAN FOOLS’. Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu and his bunch of evil juus (so-called israelis), are "South Sudanese people *existential enemies* lowly informed South Sudanese fools". Know your enemy and your friends, it is good for us, and our country lowly informed losers.>>>
      
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      - 4 February 00:31, by Langbaar
        
        *The US, the UK, their UN, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, their Abeshas (so-called ethiopian) prostitutes, some of their Bantuses, their gulf Arab states financiers and some of their creeps in between who covet our country and our people to death fools.>>>
        
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        4 February 00:39, by Langbaar
        
        Benjamin Netanyhau and his bunch of evil juus (so-called israelis) are our existential enemies. Mr. Omar Hassan El Bashir was removed by these ’vermin and install in their *Abdela Hamdok puppet/stooge as a veneer or cover to fool their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan. In fact, Mr. Hamdock is not an economist, but a loser who is supposed to be used by *his handlers from the US, the UK,>>>>
        
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        4 February 00:45, by Langbaar
        
        their evil juus (so-called israelis), their gulf Arab states financiers, their UN, their sleazy NGOs, their lackeys here in the IGAD and the African Union (the AU) and some of their creeps who covet our country and our people lowly informed South Sudanese fools. Mr. Hamdok even asked for the *UN and the NGOs* "to help North Sudan economy"?!!! Where does the low low lives think the UN and the NGOs>
        
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        4 February 00:53, by Langbaar
        
        the money from?. He even asked *the evil juus (so-called israelis) to come and invest in North Sudan*?!!!. I don’t know what the piece of trash smokes? *Here are the details on how we are going to bomb these vermin to near oblivion/extrication out of our country and over our people once and for all, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM,-----
        
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        4 February 01:14, by Langbaar
        
        *El qada, Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS/L, Jesh El Islam, El Nustra, Boko Haram and our own so-called ’SPLM/A-IO’, are terrorist outfits *financed by these vermin and low lives fellows*. Lowly informed South Sudanese fools, have you heard ’Koryom, locust/grasshopper playing games with *crops and vegetation* in *Somalia, Northern Kenya, Djibouti, North Sudan,>>>
        
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        4 February 01:29, by Langbaar
        
        Yemen, Northern India, Pakistan or Iran*? Not really losers. Didn’t our ’mighty SPLM/A, Koryom division (Locust/grasshopper), tell these low lives to be very careful for we are going to bomb them out of map, but they won’t listen, but they will listen to us some of these days after we crush *the vermin to near extinction/oblivion out of South Africa, Kenya and South Sudan*>>>
        
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- 4 February 07:12, by Kenyang ll
  
  Jews (Israel) nation is true friend of South Sudan. They were with us when we were nothing, now we say shalom. South Sudanese have nothing but grateful to many countries and friends who took side and helped us get here. No one with functioning brain should get clouded by ongoing sanctions & embargo meant to punish Kiir’s corrupt and former Khartoum parasites infested regime.
  
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  - 4 February 07:24, by Kenyang ll
    
    As NiF is on run or rotting in jail with Khartoum going back to what our two fathers advice them to do 60 years ago, we should have the last laugh.
    
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    - 4 February 07:25, by Fathi
      
      Who are the two fathers you’re referring to?
      
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4 February 02:05, by Marco A. Wek

Have you forgotten to take your medication again

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- 4 February 06:52, by Tilo
  
  Marco A. Wek,
  
  The dude must have forgotten his medicine for real.
  
  Langbaar, South South, Kuch, whoever
  No body even reads your repetitive commend, hope you get to realize that.
  
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  - 4 February 12:53, by South South
    
    Tilo or whatever they call you. I don’t want you to read my comments, but I don’t want you to open your dirty mouth and say something bad about South Sudan. When you do that, you will find me near you with my power. Kurkoo!!!! Anyway, this topic is about Sudan, we have nothing to do with it.
    
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4 February 06:10, by Fathi

Langbaar,

Stop being a lunatic. Israel loves South Sudan. Ever since the insecure black people so-called arabs of Khartoum held the bullshit Arab League conference in 1967 and came up with the Khartoum Resolution aka the 3 No’s, Israel has been determined to divide Sudan.

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- 4 February 06:25, by Fathi
  
  In fact, Israel has been smuggling weapons to the SPLA since 1967 due to that conference. Sudan should’ve never minded its own business. If we did, Sudan would’ve extend all the way until Aswan by now LOL. Unfortunately, we didn’t know how much of traitor the person replacing Nasser would be. We helped the garbage Egyptians get the Sinai and they responded by taking Halaib.
  
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  - 4 February 06:28, by Fathi
    
    Sudan should’ve minded its own business.*
    The Arabs are all traitors and have all betrayed Palestine. We all know they’re best friends behind closed doors. The Arabs don’t care about Palestine. They’re too busy being pawns for Israel & US plotting on each other. We were too naive and believed them.
    
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    - 4 February 06:38, by Fathi
      
      Then we have the evangelicals busy in Washington foolishly trying to fulfill end time prophecy talking about the King of South (Iran), Turkey, Libya, & Ethiopia(Cush [Sudan]) will fight the King of the North (Israel). Where were these devils with their military aid when we were a Christian Kingdom fighting the arabs for 1000 years.
      
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      - 4 February 06:43, by Fathi
        
        These devils don’t believe in Christianity. They used Christianity to exploit Africa just like the Keizan used Islam to exploit Sudan. It is well known that the missionaries worked with colonizers. Where were their Christian morals when the colonizers were slaughtering Africa?
        
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        4 February 06:45, by Fathi
        
        It is well known the colonizers sent their missionaries into Africa to scope where the resources were and where the good farmland was. As Desmond Tutu said, "When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “let us close our eyes and pray.” When we opened them, we had the Bible, and they had the land."
        
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        4 February 06:50, by Fathi
        
        They knew better than to do that shit in north Sudan. They didn’t even think about staying in our Sudan like they did in South Africa and how they tried in Zimbabwe. We would’ve slaughtered them. These losers came to colonize us but they left colonized. We were the first country to get independence from Britain.
        
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        4 February 06:54, by Fathi
        
        They left having built us dams, roads, schools, trains, and improved our farmland. We even tricked them into not dividing our Sudan. Sudanese would’ve never been colonized if it wasn’t for the so-called Ethiopia. We were prepared to slaughter france and Belgium’s king leopold ll after our false mahdi & his homies whooped Egypt & England
        
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        4 February 07:00, by Fathi
        
        We had an agreement with the traitors of Ethiopia. We told them to cover our back while we prepared for France & Belgium who were coming from Chad & Ziare (Congo) respectively. The African traitor aka christian Menelik of Ethiopian feared for future Jihad and accepted a bribe from christian Italy to stay neutral.
        
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        4 February 07:04, by Fathi
        
        This led to the garbage egyptians & the devil winston churchill from England attacking us with their new toy, the Gatlin gun. This resulted in the death of our caliph Abdullah and our defeat.
        
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        4 February 07:10, by Fathi
        
        Moral of the story:
        1) Sudan needs to cut all alliances with Egypt & Arabs until the real mahdi comes.
        2) Hailaib and Aswan is ours. We will reconcur when Israel defeats Egypt in an inevitable future war.
        3) We will punish Ethiopia for their betrayal in the future. We will annex all parts of Ethiopia where the blue nile runs through.
        
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        4 February 07:31, by Fathi
        
        Reconquer*
        
        I’m not serious about #3 but the truth is the arabs don’t give a damn about Sudan. Our relations should be strictly financial and non-mercenary related. We should consider leaving the arab league and develop different allies.
        
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4 February 07:40, by Fathi

It should be noted that this is clear message from the US. The US does NOT support Sudan’s transition to democracy. If it did, the secretary of state, fat man Mike aka "we lied we cheated we stole" Mike Pompeo, would’ve called Hamdok instead of Burhan. By calling Burhan and ignoring Hamdok, he is clearly trying legitimizing Burhan, the murderer in Darfur.

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- 4 February 07:44, by Fathi
  
  Don’t forget that the Pompeo didn’t invite Hamdok to meet with him in the US. He isn’t even trying to hide it. If he wasn’t trying delegitimize the civilian government, he would’ve at least called and invited both Hamdok and Burhan. Don’t forget the US was the one pushing hardest for this bullshit power sharing agreement when we had all the momentum on 6/30.
  
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  - 4 February 07:47, by Fathi
    
    Also, the US is undermining civilians in government by refusing to take Sudan off the SST and placing unrealistic demands such as 8 billion dollars for crimes that occured in 1998 by some Pakistanis & Egyptians. It should be noted that over half the people from Sudan were born after 1998. They’re setting Sudan up for failure.
    
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    - 4 February 07:52, by Fathi
      
      If a military coup occurs we will have a civil war .. no more civil disobedience and no more sit-ins. We will mail Burhan & Hemedti’s heads to Saudi Arabia and UAE. US foreign policy toward Sudan was clearly paid for by Saudi Arabia & UAE just like their mercenaries & Sudan foreign policy toward Iran.
      
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