Videos > Israel Matters #21: Peace with Sudan (??!!) and more on Russia Israel Matters #21: Peace with Sudan (??!!) and more on Russia Pesach Wolicki 112 views • 6 likes • 6 comments 6 years ago • 29:58 min
Transcript [00:01] hello everyone welcome back to israel [00:03] matters [00:04] i hope you had a wonderful weekend uh [00:07] once again i'm rabbi pesach wilicki and [00:09] i'm here with my dear friend elliot [00:11] shodhoff how you doing elliott [00:12] i'm good good way to start the week yeah [00:15] so today [00:16] is the seventh of the month of cheshvan [00:20] the second month of the year meaning the [00:22] second month after after rosh hashanah [00:25] and today is a significant day on the [00:27] calendar maybe a lot of our viewers [00:28] aren't aware but what's significant [00:30] about it [00:31] is that today is the day that we start [00:34] asking [00:35] for rain we mention rain starting on [00:38] sukkot [00:39] in the land of israel yeah in the land [00:41] of israel we start asking for rain in [00:43] our three times a day daily [00:45] daily prayers and the reason that [00:48] there's a delay i just want to [00:49] share an interesting note to people [00:52] because [00:52] many people might be aware that we [00:53] started officially [00:56] talking about rain in our prayers [00:57] although not as a request but praising [01:00] god for rain [01:01] starting on feast of tabernacles on [01:02] sukkot we hold off on actually formally [01:06] requesting rain asking god for rain for [01:09] two weeks [01:10] from sukkot until now [01:13] until the 7th of jeshvaan the historical [01:16] reason behind that [01:18] is that the pilgrims who would come to [01:19] jerusalem for the feast of tabernacles [01:21] would then of course have to travel home [01:24] and because the travel was done on [01:26] donkey and on foot and there were some [01:28] people who lived in some fairly distant [01:30] areas and in second temple times there [01:31] were even [01:32] a significant number of pilgrims who [01:35] came [01:35] from babylonia who would although they [01:38] didn't move to israel as they [01:40] should have they still came for the [01:42] holidays they made the pilgrimage to [01:44] jerusalem just like nowadays [01:46] in a non-coronavirus year so many jews [01:49] from abroad fly to israel for the [01:50] holidays [01:52] so they would give them a couple weeks [01:55] to get home [01:56] because if it started raining in this [01:59] region [02:00] if it started raining in the land of [02:01] israel in the days immediately following [02:04] sukkot [02:04] it would make the roads difficult for [02:06] travel so that so that's the reason for [02:08] the delay and we still keep it [02:11] to this day that we hold off on asking [02:13] for rain so i just want to [02:14] share with everyone that in your prayers [02:16] for israel as you continue to pray for [02:18] us [02:18] please include prayers for rain israel [02:21] is a land that depends on rainfall [02:23] last year we had the rainiest winter in [02:27] many many years and decades maybe in [02:29] israel's history [02:30] i don't remember the exact numbers but [02:32] last year's rainfall was [02:34] crazy and it was great and it was [02:36] wonderful for the country [02:37] and we're hoping that we have another [02:39] good rainfall [02:42] let's get into the news we are going to [02:43] get back to the russia issue today but [02:45] before we do that [02:46] big news story relating to israel is [02:49] another peace deal in the area this time [02:51] with sudan [02:52] now my initial reaction when i first [02:54] heard oh sudan yay [02:55] another arab country making peace with [02:58] israel [02:58] what i want to ask you elliot is when we [03:01] think about sudan and its history as [03:03] opposed to bahrain and the emirates [03:05] who were part of the arab countries and [03:08] part of the arab league and [03:09] and therefore they were part of the arab [03:11] boycott of israel [03:12] and the general arab attitude they were [03:14] never really open and active [03:17] enemies and adversaries of israel sudan [03:21] is this is a different animal this is a [03:23] country that has been [03:25] historically a bitter enemy of israel [03:28] and [03:28] and a center for terrorism and in fact [03:31] right now as i understand it they have a [03:33] military [03:34] military leadership in the country and [03:36] the last [03:37] elected whatever democracy they have the [03:40] last elected leader [03:42] and still a lot of the political culture [03:45] there is [03:46] very anti-israel so how is this peace [03:49] deal [03:50] similar how is it different and is it [03:53] stable based on these [03:54] uh factors well let me start with the [03:57] last one [03:58] it's certainly not stable um [04:01] in a country that's inherently unstable [04:05] meaning in comparison to the emirates in [04:06] bahrain where we could rely on that [04:08] right [04:08] look you know what let's for a moment [04:12] reflect on egypt after the fall of [04:14] mubarak [04:15] when morsi came into office and egypt is [04:18] a stable country by middle eastern [04:21] standards [04:23] uh but here all of a sudden we had a [04:25] muslim brotherhood [04:26] government for a short period until the [04:28] sec takeover [04:30] um and we were worried about the peace [04:31] treaty with egypt [04:34] if you know if the brotherhood stayed in [04:36] power consolidated their power they [04:37] might have taken [04:38] egypt off an entirely different [04:40] direction [04:41] so sudan which is notoriously unstable [04:46] uh and especially you know now it is a [04:49] military [04:50] rule uh without necessarily strong [04:54] institutional support [04:55] the military in sudan is not the [04:57] military in egypt [04:59] the egyptian military is is very very [05:03] much part of the egyptian [05:06] uh government and institutional [05:10] sort of core base apparatus yeah um [05:14] so you know country like sudan can flip [05:18] back just as it flipped this way [05:22] this where it is today is an aberration [05:24] and maybe uh [05:26] that that's the really big contrast [05:29] if we look at um you know [05:32] if if we look at the peace treaties that [05:34] we have or the the relationship treaties [05:36] that we have [05:37] egypt was of course the you know the [05:39] frontline enemy of israel [05:42] and one of the things that brought egypt [05:44] to the table ultimately [05:46] was the defeat they can call it whatever [05:48] they want [05:49] but the defeat in the yom kippur war and [05:52] sadat [05:54] and once again many reasons but one was [05:56] sadat saying you know what [05:58] it isn't going to get any better than it [06:00] got on yom kippur afternoon october 6th [06:03] we caught them completely by surprise [06:05] completely [06:07] out and a military that [06:10] was not up to the par that should have [06:11] been even surprised [06:14] um and we still lost [06:17] the war still ended with the israeli [06:19] army 101 kilometers from cairo [06:22] so maybe this isn't a really good policy [06:25] to follow [06:26] when i've got all this other stuff that [06:28] i need to deal with like an economy and [06:30] and unrest in the country and so on and [06:32] so forth so that was [06:33] an internal egyptian decision based on [06:36] direct [06:37] interest in an act of conflict yeah [06:40] not to mention maybe i could get my land [06:42] back if i make a deal [06:43] okay right right that's part of that was [06:46] part of the [06:46] the the incentive to making the deal but [06:49] i'm talking about just the idea [06:50] of making peace [06:54] right okay uh the jordanian deal [06:57] was was really a minor very important [07:00] but minor in the sense that once hussein [07:02] decided to do it [07:04] it was a signing negotiation we'd give [07:07] them water [07:08] it was territorial handover that we had [07:12] but it was it was [07:14] we're not talking about huge swaths of [07:15] territory not sinai [07:17] the gulf states really as you said [07:21] they've been [07:22] nominally part of the conflict but [07:26] we had no territorial issues between us [07:28] no real ideological issues they were [07:30] sort of hangers on to the conflict [07:33] and of course identifying more strongly [07:35] with the arab league than with us [07:36] they they were there they went along and [07:38] that sort of thing so even though it's [07:40] very important we've discussed how [07:42] important it is [07:43] there's nothing so radical in what they [07:46] did [07:47] uh it was the sort of step by step and [07:51] israelis have been talking about this [07:52] for at least five or six years [07:55] that we can we'll be able to cultivate [07:57] them good that it happened now [07:59] credit to those who did it i don't [08:00] believe you know it doesn't matter what [08:02] your politics are [08:04] credit credit to the ones who who were [08:06] involved in closing the deal talk about [08:08] the trump and the the netanyahu [08:09] administrations yeah and this [08:11] and this also affects the population the [08:13] grassroots level meaning [08:14] people in the street in bahrain and in [08:17] and in the emirates weren't seething [08:19] with hatred for israel they weren't part [08:21] of that [08:22] correct whereas in sudan we have a [08:24] different situation [08:25] now so that so down is a whole different [08:27] story [08:28] let's start with the fact that this is [08:32] a shift diametric shift [08:36] from the three nose to yes [08:43] immediately after the six day war in [08:44] 1967 [08:46] israel made an offer to the arabs [08:49] so look we just have all this territory [08:50] which we did not intend to take [08:53] i don't know how many people are aware [08:54] of that there was only one geographical [08:56] objective given to the idea after the [08:58] six day war [08:59] and that was the old city of jerusalem [09:01] well that was the only place where the [09:03] army was told take this piece of real [09:04] estate [09:05] on all the other fronts the army was [09:07] told to feed the enemy go into his [09:08] territory and defeat him [09:10] but the the mission was not to take [09:12] territory [09:14] okay it was a consequence so when the [09:16] war ended [09:17] in all of the optimism in euphoria of [09:19] the end of the war the israeli [09:20] leadership said great now we can make [09:22] peace [09:23] we'll give you all your territory back [09:24] except for jerusalem [09:26] and we'll make peace and it's over and [09:28] by the way the idea of land for peace [09:30] comes from that [09:31] offer of 1967. that was in june [09:35] in august of 1967 the arab league met [09:38] in khartoum in sudan and [09:42] responded officially to the israeli [09:44] offer with what is known historically as [09:46] the three [09:47] nos no peace no recognition [09:51] no negotiations pretty clear [09:55] so that happened in sudan in sudan in [09:57] khartoum exactly [09:59] okay now i mean it was a rotational [10:01] thing but [10:02] they were they were part of this and [10:05] just [10:06] to continue the story briefly just to [10:08] close it a few months later [10:10] the united nations security council [10:13] embodied the israeli [10:14] offer in what is known as security [10:16] council resolution 242 [10:18] which calls for withdrawal from [10:20] territories and all the states in the [10:22] region having secure and recognized [10:23] boundaries [10:24] borders okay so essentially your u.n [10:28] security council 242 is the israeli [10:31] offer of 1967 [10:34] okay which they turned down rejected [10:37] outright no no [10:38] no and now khartoum is saying yes [10:42] so in and of itself this is just even if [10:45] only on us [10:46] on a symbolic level we're talking about [10:48] a huge huge shift [10:50] from one to the other but it's more than [10:52] symbolic [10:54] sudan was active they sent troops in 73 [10:57] to egypt [10:59] they were always implacable they had [11:02] a radical islamist government for many [11:04] many years [11:06] uh um al qaeda was [11:09] heavily active there based there [11:11] welcomed there [11:12] over the years it went through [11:15] a serious civil war um but always for [11:19] always with the um from the perspective [11:23] of a fiercely radical islamic leadership [11:29] so the break here is is is shattering [11:32] uh sudan you know the joke was always [11:37] jordan and turned out to be true jordan [11:39] is going to be the second country to [11:41] make peace with israel [11:42] we don't know who the first is but [11:43] jordan will be second [11:45] so why so why did this happen then if [11:47] this is sudan [11:49] okay so why why are they next okay so [11:52] right so the joke had it continued would [11:54] have been sudan is going to be the last [11:57] country to make peace with israel [12:00] okay we don't know who else but they're [12:02] going to be the last [12:03] uh so again we have a change in [12:06] governments is number one [12:08] number two the americans took a very [12:10] very active role in this [12:13] they negotiated a first step [12:17] which was that sudan agreed [12:20] without prejudice to pay over 300 [12:24] million dollars in damages to americans [12:27] who were harmed by terrorism that came [12:29] out of sudan [12:31] wow and [12:34] without prejudice meaning they deny that [12:36] they have [12:37] that they're responsible but as a good [12:39] will gesture they will pay the money [12:43] in return america took them off [12:46] the terrorism list [12:51] and the next step after that was the [12:52] deal with israel in other words this [12:54] this was a linked [12:56] step-by-step process so here america had [12:59] a huge [13:00] influence on it and [13:03] tied the three together in linkage [13:06] okay so let me let me maybe i'm [13:09] paraphrasing or maybe i'm [13:10] i'm interpreting let me make sense of [13:13] what you just said [13:14] to put it simply sudan wants to be [13:18] to be part of the american [13:21] camp on the global stage correct and the [13:23] price of admission [13:26] is resolving the terrorism issue which [13:28] includes the [13:29] this this goodwill gesture right [13:32] and and the quid pro quo the us removes [13:35] them from the terrorist list [13:36] and the trump administration made part [13:39] of the price of admission [13:41] a recognition of israel and a [13:42] normalization there [13:45] apparently okay um [13:48] i if i had to put money on it i would [13:50] put money on it [13:51] but there's there's linkage for sure in [13:54] other words they were talking with [13:55] israel but it was clear that if they [13:56] weren't they said outright if we're not [13:57] off the terrorism list [13:59] we're not making a deal so it was there [14:02] was it an absolute quid pro quo step by [14:05] step [14:06] probably uh but it doesn't really matter [14:08] that much [14:09] it was it was all part of that package [14:11] together [14:12] and america has its own interests in it [14:16] and that'll bring us [14:17] shortly to the whole russian story okay [14:19] um [14:21] but let's keep in mind also that for [14:24] sudan [14:27] remaining an enemy of israel as for many [14:30] of these countries [14:32] once egypt was out of the picture was [14:35] largely symbolic [14:37] sudan had no real means on its own to [14:39] engage in israel's [14:41] in warfare with israel [14:44] uh and like i said with powerful egypt [14:47] out of the picture [14:48] they were just sort of hanging out there [14:49] they and they were also [14:52] much more ideological as i said before [14:54] but in practical terms [14:56] they were just they were out in in [14:58] nowhere's land [15:00] too far away from israel to have any [15:03] real effect [15:04] and too weak okay iran is far away but [15:07] it's strong [15:09] too weak to have any effect on its own [15:12] but the symbolism is important [15:14] especially as i said when you're talking [15:15] about an implacable [15:16] islamist enemy that was supporting [15:19] al-qaeda [15:21] and bin laden was operating out of sudan [15:23] for a while [15:25] so [15:28] is it safe to say here also that look [15:32] israel gains from every any muslim [15:34] country any arab country [15:36] that normalizes that breaks up the [15:40] you know further uh aids the [15:43] the ongoing disintegration of the of the [15:46] united arab front against israel is good [15:49] but as opposed to the gulf states where [15:52] there's a serious economic [15:54] cooperation on the horizon that israel [15:57] can look at the gulf states and said [15:59] okay wow [15:59] like we could do great things together [16:02] that [16:02] that's not there really with sudan sudan [16:05] is is at this point [16:07] um you know has this military government [16:09] over [16:10] in a fairly war-torn area and a lot of [16:13] you know it's a it's not in the economic [16:16] league [16:17] as the as the gulf states so from [16:20] israel's perspective there's a lot less [16:23] you know on the horizon to gain from [16:25] this partnership correct [16:27] again there's a lot of symbolism here [16:29] and we'll probably end up [16:30] putting more into them than they put [16:32] into us in terms of aid and assistance [16:35] of all types and [16:36] advisors and that sort of thing but [16:38] let's also keep in mind that this is [16:40] africa [16:42] there's a geographical element here [16:45] because while [16:48] libya doesn't really exist [16:51] in order to make decisions we do have [16:54] tunisia algeria and morocco [16:57] who morocco in particular but but the [17:00] others [17:00] uh who are also in some form or another [17:04] especially tunisia [17:05] and morocco uh have had some form of [17:09] relationship [17:10] in part through the idea that jews [17:13] fled from those countries and they still [17:15] have certain links and that sort of [17:17] thing [17:17] so having moved it into onto the african [17:20] side [17:20] and certainly a country like sudan uh [17:23] it could open up other countries as well [17:26] there's a certain domino effect here [17:27] that's very very hard to predict [17:29] but but you can see for example a [17:32] moroccan government saying you know what [17:33] we're not impressed with the emirates [17:35] we're not impressed with [17:36] with bahrain there are a bunch of you [17:38] know [17:40] sitting off in the desert pumping oil uh [17:43] sudan is [17:44] changing you know changes that whole [17:45] mosaic [17:47] and that could have have very high [17:48] impact okay so what does this have to do [17:51] with russia you said before that this [17:52] takes us back to the russian things [17:54] there's another aspect of on this that's [17:56] also very important [17:59] the russians moved into syria as we [18:01] spoke that the last time we spoke about [18:03] russia [18:04] for their own specific strategic reasons [18:06] of the coast and the ports and that [18:08] something but there's another element to [18:09] this as well [18:11] putin wants russia back in the game not [18:14] just militarily but also politically [18:17] i mean strategy is not just military [18:19] strategy it's political strategy it's [18:20] it's positioning [18:22] it's allies it's denying allies to your [18:24] adversary [18:27] on that level very complex and [18:31] the world is a much more complex world [18:33] today [18:34] than it has been or it had been [18:37] post-world war ii during the cold war [18:39] the cold war was a very simple world [18:42] don't confuse simple with secure but [18:45] simple in the sense that it was the [18:46] warsaw pact [18:47] there was nato there were the [18:48] non-aligned nations and that was it and [18:51] countries didn't didn't shift you were [18:52] either in this one or you were in that [18:54] one [18:56] and if you were in one you didn't have a [18:58] lot to do with the other [18:59] maybe you know a little on the periphery [19:03] for most of history [19:07] diplomacy was far more complex than that [19:12] friends came and went enemies came and [19:14] went yesterday's enemy was [19:16] today's friend and tomorrow's enemy [19:19] again [19:22] setting up solid bases of [19:25] support became much more important [19:29] deals came and went let's not forget [19:31] that in [19:32] august 1939 stalin and hitler signed a [19:35] non-aggression pact [19:39] and you think of two more [19:42] diametrically opposed ideological [19:46] systems that were greater enemies [19:49] i can't but they did they carved up [19:51] poland between them [19:53] and it held until june 1941 when when [19:55] the germans invaded [19:57] russia summarily ending that pact [20:07] what's 162 division invasion between [20:09] friends [20:11] okay now hey it lasted two years russia [20:14] is playing [20:17] it hey right they were very nice they're [20:21] a good two years [20:23] um [20:28] america under first [20:34] jr but more importantly under obama [20:37] expressed their disinterest in the [20:39] middle east [20:41] and don't let the iraqi [20:45] story get in the way of that [20:50] the american iraqi story that had [20:53] something [20:53] that that was not the middle east that [20:55] was a a [20:57] feeble attempt at an experiment to see [21:00] if democracy will spontaneously generate [21:02] in the sands [21:04] and it failed but all in all america was [21:06] pulling out [21:07] russia moved into the vacuum when it was [21:09] ready and was ready during the syrian [21:11] civil war [21:12] america sat and watched it happen and [21:15] russia moved in [21:16] into position it did it making all sorts [21:19] of arrangements with turkey [21:20] with iran and tacitly with israel as [21:23] well [21:25] because one of the things that's [21:26] important for us to remember is that the [21:27] russia putin's russia [21:30] is not soviet russia it's operating in a [21:33] much [21:34] colder calculating fashion [21:37] than the soviets [21:40] okay there's no way the soviets could [21:44] make any sort of tacit arrangement with [21:45] israel [21:46] because israel is in the american camp [21:49] here not america israel is in the [21:52] american camp [21:53] but that doesn't stop russia from [21:56] coming to arrangements that suit its [21:58] purpose in the region [22:03] and it was gaining influence because [22:05] america had [22:06] left the field and [22:09] russia was now the country to to go to [22:12] incidentally when morsi [22:13] i'm sorry when assisi took over in egypt [22:16] the obama administration [22:18] cut egypt off now egypt had been had [22:20] shifted from the soviet [22:22] to the american orbit in the 1970s [22:25] by the way the only major country [22:28] to voluntarily shift from one side to [22:31] the other during the cold war [22:34] well you're the only one yeah tremendous [22:37] loss for the russians [22:39] strategically in terms of naval bases in [22:42] alexandria [22:44] support i mean egypt's a key country [22:47] and america worked very hard to keep [22:51] egypt [22:52] in the fold the obama administration [22:55] says to assisi you're [22:56] you're not legitimate it was a military [22:58] coup we only support democratic [23:00] elected governments which is not true [23:02] we're cutting you off [23:04] we're not we're we're holding up all [23:05] arms transfers to you [23:07] and the russians moved and said we'll [23:08] give you we'll give you arms we'll sell [23:09] your arms we have no problem [23:12] and it was very touch and go there for a [23:14] little while that egypt might could very [23:16] well have shifted over back to the [23:17] russians [23:20] america got its act together and and it [23:22] didn't happen so [23:23] russia's operating in other places and [23:25] playing everybody else off against each [23:27] other [23:28] in other words they [23:31] want iran to do some of their dirty work [23:34] but not too much [23:36] they want turkey to do some of their [23:37] dirty work but not too much [23:39] turkey and russia are traditional [23:42] enemies [23:43] uh so there's a lot of balancing there [23:46] now all of a sudden [23:48] and here's the key point it's a long way [23:50] around to it [23:51] the americans are moving back in and [23:53] they're not moving in [23:54] militarily it's worse than countries [23:57] yeah they're moving countries [23:59] right they're getting power they're [24:00] gaining influence [24:02] much more dangerous to the russians than [24:04] american military presence [24:07] so when trump gets elected and he makes [24:09] his first trip to the middle east [24:11] he visits saudi arabia [24:15] egypt if i'm not mistaken right israel [24:18] right that's what he starts this process [24:21] of [24:22] engaging these nations right [24:25] and now he's got he's got like you know [24:30] his hand he's got he's got the uae he's [24:33] got bahrain [24:34] and he's bringing and he's using israel [24:37] or he's he's connecting them to israel [24:40] and creating a coalition of allies [24:44] so sudan [24:47] is now i guess officially with this deal [24:51] part of that that's right they're tied [24:54] in [24:54] part of that group wow [24:57] and the russians would do anything in [25:00] their power [25:01] within political reason to try to shake [25:05] this up and break it up [25:06] and we could expect that they will [25:09] without it without a doubt [25:11] without a doubt um [25:14] so that gives us something to look [25:15] towards actually as [25:17] as things continue to play out in other [25:19] words the right because the russians are [25:20] not [25:22] they don't just do things diplomatically [25:23] they could they could try to foment uh [25:26] unrest in the street yeah try to affect [25:29] the political processes in these [25:30] countries [25:31] i'll give you an example there there are [25:33] american politicians and and [25:36] we don't we don't talk american politics [25:39] here much and we're not going to today [25:40] either [25:41] but democratic party lawmakers [25:45] who are threatening to cut off saudi [25:47] arabia [25:48] because of its human rights issues now [25:51] i'm not a great fan of [25:52] saudi arabian human rights but they're [25:54] basically saying we're going to leave [25:56] you [25:58] exposed to iran to the houthis in yemen [26:02] uh you're you're misusing weapons [26:04] against the houthis you're you know [26:05] civilians are getting killed [26:06] so we're going to cut off your weapons [26:08] and i sit here and say you know what [26:11] no it doesn't work that way you know [26:14] this is still better than what would [26:15] have been [26:16] or what would be if iran moves in there [26:18] and you're not playing [26:20] in a perfect world where you can dictate [26:21] these sorts of things i mean not to [26:23] mention the duplicity of the fact that [26:24] those same democrat [26:26] lawmakers are happy to embrace you know [26:29] other non-democratically right [26:32] functioning nations [26:33] you mean like iran like ira iran [26:36] iran chief of them but but there's many [26:38] i mean there's not many examples sure [26:40] my point is that that is that's a place [26:44] where russia [26:45] could make trouble in order to get [26:49] america if it's misguided about it to go [26:52] in [26:52] in another direction and shake things up [26:55] the only good news in all of this [26:57] if if you will from the russian from our [26:59] perspective vis-a-vis the russians [27:02] is the russians even though putin is [27:04] thinking strategically [27:06] he does not apparently yet have a [27:08] cohesive grand strategy in this region [27:12] and part of it may be because of the the [27:14] so much instability [27:16] um that he doesn't want to put too many [27:19] of his eggs in one basket i would [27:20] imagine he also has less to offer these [27:22] nations [27:23] correct look he doesn't have money [27:28] his his economy is not in great shape [27:32] he's operating beyond his economic [27:34] capability [27:36] so he can't provide the type of foreign [27:38] aid no [27:40] uh that uh you know that the u.s can [27:43] provide [27:44] no so [27:47] that's what we're watching at the moment [27:49] there's this maneuver going on [27:51] and the fact is that the americans are [27:52] out maneuvering the russians at the [27:54] moment [27:55] the russians the locus of maneuver is [27:59] syria [27:59] and america is operating all the way all [28:01] around well all right [28:03] elliot this is great so to sum things up [28:06] when we look at the sudan piece deal [28:08] like while at the same time we're happy [28:09] about it the same way we were happy [28:11] about all the peace deals and it's a [28:12] nice step forward it's positive [28:14] it's positive with an asterisk maybe in [28:17] comparison to bar [28:18] to bahrain and uae where we're like okay [28:21] this is an interesting move on the chess [28:23] board [28:24] it's not necessarily as stable a move [28:28] and it and it we now know what we have [28:31] to look for [28:33] going forward like what what does it do [28:35] so that that's a great explanation [28:37] and uh you know [28:40] i can only think that that uh it [28:43] probably egypt is happy about it [28:45] because they're on that point egypt is [28:47] thrilled i'm sure that [28:51] because they they a stable a more stable [28:54] sudan that's under the watchful eye of [28:55] the americans [28:57] is a benefit to the egyptians right [28:59] let's also remember this is a whole [29:01] subject and of itself i'm just going to [29:02] throw it out there because [29:03] we don't have time to go there the nile [29:06] starts in sudan [29:10] very interesting the egyptians have a [29:12] lot of interest in what's happening to [29:13] their south [29:15] yeah maybe a topic we could explore at [29:17] some point is [29:18] is uh us policy on the african continent [29:22] because uh it's something that is okay [29:25] you know [29:25] that has impact on israel i think [29:27] that'll do it for today [29:29] okay thank you everyone for watching [29:31] please share [29:32] please spread the word please tell [29:34] people about this everyone who watches [29:36] this knows [29:36] that there's a depth of insight in the [29:38] depth of analysis that elliott provides [29:40] that you get here on israel matters that [29:43] you're just not getting anywhere else [29:44] so please spread the word and continue [29:47] with the feedback we love it [29:49] and we and uh and we get great ideas [29:51] about what to talk about [29:53] and of course keep praying for israel [29:54] god bless
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and security and defense analyst Elliot Chodoff discuss the latest news of an impending normalization and peace deal with Sudan, a long time bitter enemy of the State of Israel. Elliot explains what makes this deal very different from the previous arrangements with Bahrain and the UAE, as well as how this has everything to do with Russia's involvement in the Middle East.
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