The Arab Council expresses its strong condemnation of the reports regarding the Sudanese transitional government reaching an agreement to normalize relations with Israel, under American sponsorship.

The Council considers that this objectionable step, which exceeds the powers of the transitional phase, does not reflect the will of the Sudanese people, who are committed to their Arab identity and their historical connection to the Palestinian cause, dating back to the Three No’s Conference and even earlier.

This normalization step, which follows the previous betrayals by the UAE and Bahrain, is part of American tactical maneuvers tied to the upcoming elections and a strategy aimed at settling the Palestinian issue, solidifying Israel’s hegemony over the entire region, undermining any emancipatory, integrative aspirations in the Arab world, and imposing a peace based on submission, deception, coercion, arrogance, and the denial of the most basic values of international society. It has nothing to do with the true peace that all peoples of the region need.

While the Arab Council supports the struggles of the Sudanese people who oppose this step, it asserts that it is the responsibility of all Arab peoples today to confront the path of normalization, which is being negotiated both publicly and secretly with several weak Arab regimes, in the context of the complete collapse of all Arab joint institutions and mechanisms.

The Council believes that the only hope for countering this wave of normalization lies in a popular Arab uprising, uniting around the idea of a union of Arab peoples, which the Arab Council is working to establish as an alternative to the Arab League of regimes, and as a new framework to defend common principles, Arab dignity, collective Arab security, and to protect the rights of our peoples to sovereignty, stability, prosperity, and the Palestinian people’s right to independence and freedom.

On behalf of the Arab Council,
Dr. Mohamed Moncef Marzouki