Thread by @theIMEU

THREAD: After the UAE & Bahrain deals, normalization between #Sudan’s military rulers & Israel’s apartheid government is the latest agreement between authoritarian forces that’s being misportrayed as a “historic peace deal” between nations. Here is what you need to know about it:

Sudan’s military-led transitional government (set to keep power from the civilian government until at least 2022) is a client of regional authoritarian governments, receiving billions in funding from the Saudi & UAE regimes. Their decisions do not represent the Sudanese people.

Back in August, when US Sec of State Mike Pompeo first pressured Sudan to normalize with Israel, Sudan’s civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok responded by saying Sudan’s military-led transitional government had “no mandate” to make such a decision.
washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…

Yet, this Sudan-Israel deal was rammed through just before the US election, under US pressure and without the support of the Sudanese people, as an electoral favor for Donald Trump, who is a friend to this alliance of oppressive regimes, to tout sham foreign policy "successes."

Contrary to normalizing governments’ claims, these deals do not hinder Israel’s theft of Palestinian land, they provide cover for it, as is evident by new Israeli plans for 4,000+ illegal settlement units on stolen Palestinian land.
middleeasteye.net/news/israel-pa…

None of these agreements address Israel’s racist & oppressive rule over Palestinians, which imposes lethal brutality, cruelty & occupation on the indigenous Palestinian people. The region won’t see true peace until we end this injustice.