{"id":3874,"date":"2020-11-22T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2020-11-22T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T13:56:14","slug":"the-us-just-brokered-another-peace-deal-for-israel-this-time-with-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"The US just brokered another peace deal for Israel, this time with Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“At its core, then, the deal looks like a trade where the US and Israel give Sudan financial support in exchange for diplomatic normalization.”
…
“a joint US-Israeli delegation traveled to Sudan for talks with the government<\/a>. Two days later, Trump removed the Arab-led North African nation from America\u2019s state sponsors of terrorism list<\/a>. It\u2019s a move he promised<\/a> to make once the country paid $335 million to American victims of terror for the country\u2019s harboring of Osama bin Laden in the 1990s<\/a>. 
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The UAE also played a role in the negotiations, as Sudan asked the country \u2014 and the US \u2014 for billions in economic aid<\/a> as part of signing this deal. That makes sense, as the country is desperately in need of cash<\/a>. Whether the US and UAE start funneling money into Sudan remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A political earthquake in Sudan also made theannouncement possible. A protest movement<\/a> kicked Sudan\u2019s Islamist leaders out of power last year, ushering in a new military-led government that wants to end its global pariah status. Making amends with the US and saying it is no longer hostile to Israel is one way to do just that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“more broadly, regional politics in the greater Middle East have changed dramatically in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once served as a major axis around which Middle East and Arab-government politics rotated, with many countries aligned with the Palestinians against Israel, that\u2019s now changed<\/a>. What animates the foreign policies of many Middle Eastern countries these days is the Arab-Israel standoff with Iran \u2014 which some have dubbed a \u201ccold war<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With less need to bash Israel and back Palestine, Sudan had more freedom to strike the deal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/10\/23\/21530280\/usa-sudan-israel-peace-deal-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“At its core, then, the deal looks like a trade where the US and Israel give Sudan financial support in exchange for diplomatic normalization.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“a joint US-Israeli delegation traveled to Sudan for talks with the government. Two days later, Trump removed the Arab-led North African nation from America\u2019s state sponsors of terrorism list. It\u2019s a move he promised to make once the country paid $335 million to American victims of terror for the country\u2019s harboring of Osama bin Laden in the 1990s. <\/p>\n

The UAE also played a role in the negotiations, as Sudan asked the country \u2014 and the US \u2014 for billions in economic aid as part of signing this deal. That makes sense, as the country is desperately in need of cash. Whether the US and UAE start funneling money into Sudan remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

A political earthquake in Sudan also made the announcement possible. A protest movement kicked Sudan\u2019s Islamist leaders out of power last year, ushering in a new military-led government that wants to end its global pariah status. Making amends with the US and saying it is no longer hostile to Israel is one way to do just that.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“more broadly, regional politics in the greater Middle East have changed dramatically in recent years.<\/p>\n

Whereas the Israeli-Palestinian conflict once served as a major axis around which Middle East and Arab-government politics rotated, with many countries aligned with the Palestinians against Israel, that\u2019s now changed. What animates the foreign policies of many Middle Eastern countries these days is the Arab-Israel standoff with Iran \u2014 which some have dubbed a \u201ccold war.\u201d<\/p>\n

With less need to bash Israel and back Palestine, Sudan had more freedom to strike the deal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,194,1077],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-israel","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}