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Another arab israeli normalization deal announced but the agreement linking sudan and israel raises more than a few questions is it as substantial as israels deals with the u. A. E. And beheading and cancer dance government actually follow through this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Sudan has become the 3rd arab country this year to say its normalizing ties with israel President Donald Trump made the announcement during a phone call with the israeli and sudanese leaders on friday the move has symbolic significance because it was in the sudanese capital of them in 1967 that arab countries committed themselves to what became known as the 3 knows no peace no negotiations and no recognition of israel and west jerusalem israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu celebrated changing those 3 nos to yes. You know youll have to move the cartoon says yes yes to peace with israel yes to recognition of israel and yes to normalization with israel this is a new era the era of true peace this is a peace that is expanding to include other arab countries 3 of which have made peace with us in recent weeks sudanese an israeli delegations will meet soon to discuss cooperation in many fields including agriculture trade and other important areas for us citizens the sudanese sky is now open to israel. But unlike earlier deals with the United Arab Emirates and behind in this agreement raises as many questions as it answers why sudan can this fragile Transitional Government really approve such a sweeping policy change and who will ratify it since sudan currently has no parliament theres a lot going on here and were going to explore the benefits and risks for all 3 countries involved well bring in our guests in a moment but 1st how tickell hand in washington and what morgan and how to him tell us how the accord looks from those capitals. For u. S. President donald trump the deal between sudan and israel is important because the election its not necessarily that he wanted a Foreign Policy achievement that he could tout to the crowds Foreign Policy is barely a factor in this years president ial election and its not necessarily to try and get the support of Jewish Americans because polls show the vast majority of Jewish American voters tend to vote democratic the president made clear in his own language what hes doing is trying to shore up his support with christian evangelicals because they say their support for israel is a major factor for them and the president s made clear in every move that is see this pro israel hes doing it to try and shore up his base because he wants to be reelected and have a mark and how to move the capital of sudan which became the latest arab country to normalize thighs with israel now sudans decision was largely driven by the state of the economy which has seen inflation risen to never before 220 percent leading to an increase in market prices sudan has also been on the u. S. List of state sponsors of terrorism for 27 years and that has cut it off from Foreign Trade resulting in shortage of hard currency which made it difficult to import most of the basic commodities such as wheat and fuel resulting in long queues at petrol stations and bakeries as people wait for bread and petrol to be able to continue with their lives now sudan says that the issue of being delisted from the u. S. List of state sponsors of terrorism and normalizing ties with israel are not related but they did go hand in hand because the same day that the u. S. President donald trump announced that sudan would be lifted of the s. S. T. He also announced that the 3 countries have agreed sudan us and israel have agreed to normalize relations so it seems that they came hand in hand and sudan says its looking for its interest but lets equally and economically. All right lets bring in our guests in miami ari ratner a former special assistant for the u. S. State department in west jerusalem mitchell beric c. E. O. Of the Israeli Research firm keven and here in doha will leave medea bo founder and president of the Sudan Policy Forum a warm welcome to you all lead let me please start with you officials in sudan have said that the agreement for normalizing ties with israel will depend upon it being ratified by the countrys Legislative Council this is a Legislative Council that has not yet been formed so is it fair to say that this normalization agreement is far from a done deal. Its its a its a done deal in my home p. C. So far as the season he has b. B. And by the head of the Supreme Council and the party. And they havent made it he then 4 to 5 this. Night vying discussing need was the Prime Ministerial office all of the soaring comments that the sureties was lucky still had to. How are they going to mobilize this issue starting now i think they ought to keep an eye on the fact that this is specific point in history that is it isnt anybody could stop believing the country is going through a lot of common problems a bit more and so. Me i right i think then. Having me in the airport who is some sort of. Want to discussion with the public eye the prettiest time netanyahu. The public knew about it before. Any purpose of. Renown. He said. It will never mind i think its ok with newt in the line of. Sight and this is whats quite recent is this the steps he could have been sustaining such as it is the mitchell the u. A. E. And by her in never fought israel its a different story of course when it comes to sudan so how significant is this agreement for israel well the 1st thing i would say its different right now because were not going to be exchanging and decease this point so weve seen real normalization with the train and and and United Arab Emirates weve seen as fact an embrace of israelis by the. Knighted there are memories and its really on the path already you know other companies are seated i think relations so a syllable bit different here what is happening here though israel answered honest very significant i would call it a triple win its a win win win for israel the 1st when is that theyre off the terror list meaning theyre not supporting terror theyre not shipping arms via you around from iran to hamas theyre not involved anymore in that terror trade theyre not base any more or terror operations thats the 1st when the 2nd when is obviously the normalization with israel the fact that they are recognizing israel normalizing relations and the 3rd when of course is what it does to the palestinians meaning its going to put the palestinians more in a corner each of these countries and normalize relationships with israel its going to be forcing the palestinians to also at some point come to terms with normalizing with israel so it puts some pressure on them which is good it stops the terror support of terror and it also opens up another country to normalize relations with israel is an excellent excellent achievement ari when you look at the video of this announcement of the normalization deal being made at the white house its really unclear if there are any sudanese or israeli officials that were actually present there with President Trump and his staff i mean is this how diplomacy is done. Not typically add but trump in ministration isnt that great to put ministration not on the never levels had a guess in your head a famous line about about israeli politics actually said israeli Foreign Policy didnt exist all you had was domestic into israeli politics by which he meant that the fractious nature of israeli politics drove the foreign policies which is that how people think of it and and you could Say Something very similar about american policy that Foreign Policy right now. Of course peace with israel and any of its neighbors or even. 2 neighbors as you would call sadat is is a longstanding american goal but the way this is being done here is much much more by the pentagon action and even saw on the phone call President Trump asking Prime Minister netanyahu whether his words sleepy joe could do a deal like this that its Prime Minister not too many are wisely avoided so you know this isnt normal. But it might be beneficial and its certainly something that. Whether the trump mr a show and is reelected or whether joe biden is reelected will will ringback be a teacher american policy michel i saw you react when ari was making a specific point there about the phone call between President Trump a Prime Minister netanyahu because there was that moment where President Trump used his insult for joe biden and asked Prime Minister netanyahu if he thought sleepy joe as President Trump calls joe biden could have made this deal and then it was an interesting response from the Prime Minister from netanyahu who essentially said hey were thankful for any american who can help bring peace a lot of analysts thought that was an example of netanyahu really hedging his bets because were close to an election and he might have to work with joe biden Going Forward what do you say. Well that i mean its good that now a week before the election hes hedging his bets because he spent the last 10 years of the administration fighting with the obama biden is ministration in a kind of friendly manner and then working hand in hand very closely with the trumpet ministration to the point of not just the Trump Administration by the israeli israeli Foreign Policy is very much favoring our fear feels more comfortable with republicans in the United States and to a certain extent has been you know not paying enough attention to the democratic side of the political map in the United States and that is a problem in general for any country and certainly it has not been a wise policy on the hat behalf and youde to do so it is good to see that they you know at least in lip service. He has hedging his bets but you know there does seem to be a lot of political jockeying and support in and you know a lot of wake wink and nod stores the republicans and towards trump so i think it was totally inappropriate of President Trump to put in you know a political you know love for himself in a Foreign Policy all like that. But you know you certainly cant take away the achievements that he has produced in the past few months with United Arab Emirates with a crane with guitar there seems to be more to come whether hes around this president or not well have to see but he certainly has had after after many many years of giving israel many many things on the israeli wish list hes certainly come through even in the last few months but some very very big achievement so that he can take away from him but to make it political and to try to make it partisan is not helpful to israel in the long run that its you know stepped up and didnt fall into that trap when he did weve already heard reaction from some sudanese Political Parties rejecting this normalization agreement. Weve seen demonstrations in sudan against the deal as well how unpopular is it in sudan is is very unpopular apart from the presumption was an unprofessional manner who switch a president from the numbers this is. 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Was done in such a way that. I dont think. You know were going to hold the. Ari has the trumpet ministration actually remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and if not what are the commitments sudan needs to meet now in order to have that done. You know its its its its a process that the leaders i am not an expert on the terrace i mean the thing that big ministration designates and they should have it simple its not something that has to go to congress for instance and they should have a simple. Designation but. After designation it well but i mean let me stop you real quick since you brought up congress is going to ask you about that later they will have their chance to have their say as well do you think we could see a scenario whereby they might reject this deal. You know its an interesting. Its an interesting point let me say this washington right now is consumes not only with the election but with a number of things supreme courts which will probably be resolved very soon cozy relief economic really this year an event like this would have been under normal circumstances the front page of the New York Times and every other paper in the country and it wasnt even in the front 10 pages and youll see Congress Take something similar congress has a role in oversight of course and no matter who the next congress is there will be an oversight role in a funny role but but this is much more back channel and much more off the cuff right now and i knew the next guest will be a process for working with sudan and indeed of any other country on a movie needle so that designation is is reflected in reality michel you talked extensively about the momentum that this creates as President Trump says he expects saudi arabia will be agreeing to closer ties with israel possibly in the coming months do you believe the we are going to see saudi arabia normalize has 0 and do you think that this will be in the in the near term of the long term. Oh i think that from what ive seen saudi arabia is interested and theyre probably hedging their bets a little bit more so wait to see whos going to be the next president and give the credit whenever that person is coming into the white house so that they can fully maximize but it does look like there has been a shift in the sands of the middle east and that you know countries are now that were involved with israel in the past there openly you know having relations with israel and openly recognizing the right of israel to exist so there has been a really serious and monumental change within the past few months which weve seen was people are feeling in israel people feel very differently in israel about the region about these countries about that the fact that theyve come to the table and you know to a certain extent if we go back to the house an issue its kind of given you know a stamp of approval if you will to the Prime Minister and how hes dealt with it over the past decade which is either to ignore it or to you know you know challenge the palestinians and not give in on any issues and ignore the Peace Process lets say with the palestinians theres at the end of the day the biggest you know whole back was that you kno