The meeting between Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of Sudan's sovereign council, in Entebbe, Uganda and the following statement that the two countries will normalize their diplomatic relations is a surprise for all of us. 

Traditionally, Sudan has been one of the Arab countries which maximum adverse to Israel and the Sudanese public by means of large numbers keep this sense. Last 12 months, the country changed into swept up via a revolution pushing for dignity, justice, equality, and democracy - ideas that contradict Israel's oppressive, colonial presence inside the vicinity and its policy of colluding with dictatorial regimes. 

To recognize the context of the meeting, it is critical to don't forget that Sudan became indexed by using the United States government as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1993 over claims of presenting cloth assistance to al-Qaeda.  

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This designation, with all international sanctions associated with it, gives a chief impediment to Sudan in gaining access to foreign aid and dealing with its huge countrywide debt. 

The US keeps that Sudan was complicit inside the 1998 terrorist attacks on its embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which killed 224 people. At that point, al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who ordered the attacks, changed into known to are living on Sudanese territory. 

The US insists Sudan must pay about $10bn in damages, $5.9bn of which to the families of the American victims before the sanctions are lifted. In justifying its function, Washington hides in the back of the independence of the judiciary and claims that it's far in basic terms prison manner that has not anything to do with politics. 

However, it's far ethically questionable to have the Sudanese human beings - who had no idea what became transpiring in far-flung terrorist training camps within the overdue 1990s - be held hostage to beyond abuses of a dictatorship they did now not choose. 

It must be clear that the revolution they released which toppled the regime of Omar al-Bashir and caused a political transition will no longer prevail until the monetary state of affairs at the floor is addressed and this designation is one of the primary obstacles to economic recovery. 

At the current assembly in Entebbe, Netanyahu appears to have promised General al-Burhan, who took over from al-Bashir, that he could convince US President Donald Trump to de-listing Sudan as a kingdom sponsor of terrorism. 

Clearly, Netanyahu's declare is disingenuous and misleading. His song record indicates that his much more likely intention is to repatriate a few 4,500 Sudanese refugees who're presently in Israel.  

Furthermore, Sudan's leaders might do properly to take into account that whilst there is a belief in some Arab diplomatic capitals that the best path to changing US coverage is through normalization with Israel, few Arab states have benefitted materially or otherwise from attempting to do so. 

Most critically, tries to normalize ties run the chance of the transitional administration dropping the assist of the Sudanese street which is already on the line because of the united states of America's persistent financial disaster. 

This does now not imply that there are no other methods out of this tough situation. Sudan can take some of the steps which do not pass against the need of its humans and harm the Palestinian cause so as to get out of the crisis.