“We live in historical times,” Dagan said Saturday night when he met with Sudanese Ambassador Omar El-Shaikh in an unpublished Arab country.
Dagan was there with a delegation from Samaria to discuss economic cooperation between Sudan and the Samaria region of the West Bank.
Just last Tuesday, the Sudanese cabinet voted to repeal a 1958 law banning diplomatic and business relations with Israel. Sudan is one of four countries that have normalized ties with Israel under the basis of the former Trump administration’s Abraham accords. The agreements also included the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
He hopes to visit Khartoum to sign similar business deals. Out of the four countries, the Sudanese capital Khartoum has special symbolic significance because the Arab League met there after the Six Day War in 1967 and agreed to what became known as the three “no’s of Khartoum” – no to Israel’s recognition, no for negotiations with Israel and no for peace with Israel.
Now, as a sign of the changing times, meet Dagan el-Sheikh, who is in charge of the democratic transition in Sudan, and give him a menorah as a gift. Dagan noted that they were both descendants of the Biblical Abraham. He also invited him to visit Samaria.
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“We are glad he came here,” El-Sheikh said. “We think there will be a lot of cooperation – economically and culturally – to support the peace and all the love around this relationship.”