(Times of Israel) Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser - In recent years, Sudan detached itself from the radical camp and joined the pragmatists. The half-popular, half-military revolution in April 2019 signaled the completion of the change in Khartoum's affiliation. In February 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Sudan's President, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, met in Uganda. Sudan is still on the U.S. list of terror-supporting states. Sudan reached an agreement with the U.S. on compensating the victims of past terror attacks, which will enable erasing it from the list once it is approved by Congress. If the deal is rejected and its approval delayed, the pragmatic temporary regime may be further destabilized and even toppled by opposing factions with affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood. The writer is Director of the Project on Regional Middle East Developments at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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