⁍ Israel reached normalization agreements last month with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
⁍ The announcement of a U.S. brokered deal between Israel and a third Arab state comes less than two weeks before President Donald Trump faces voters in an election.
⁍ Palestinians say Arab countries have set back the cause of peace by abandoning a long-standing demand that Israel give up land for a Palestinian state before it can receive recognition.
– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country has agreed to normalize relations with Sudan, the third Arab country in recent weeks to do so. “In Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, the three principles of the Arab League were adopted in 1967,” Netanyahu said in a video statement, per Reuters: “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel.” “Whereas today Khartoum says—yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel, and to normalization with Israel,” he said, “KHARTOUM says—yes to peace with Israel, yes to recognition of Israel, and to normalization with Israel.” Sudan’s President Omar Bashir, who was deposed last year, is an ally of Hamas, which called the move “a new stab in the back of the Palestinian people and a betrayal of the just Palestinian cause.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-sudan-israel-palestinians-int/israel-hails-new-era-with-sudan-but-palestinians-lament-new-stab-in-the-back-idUSKBN2782B3