South Sudan Recognises Israel and Will Establish Relations With Israel

Via Legal Insurrection:

 ... now there is a South Sudan, and it isn’t your father’s Sudan.  Among other things, South Sudan will be  quick to establish relations with Israel:

South Sudan, already recognised by Israel, will forge relations with the Jewish state and hopes to help bring peace to the Middle East, the new state’s vice president said in remarks received on Friday.

Riek Machar, speaking to Alhurra television after the UN General Assembly in New York admitted South Sudan to the United Nations on Thursday, said that most of his country’s neighbours had diplomatic relations with Israel.

“Therefore we will have relations with all the Arab and Muslim countries and even with Israel…” Machar said in Arabic, according to a transcript in English sent to Reuters on Friday….

South Sudan, most of whose people follow Christian and traditional African beliefs, became independent on Saturday in line with a January referendum that was the culmination of a 2005 peace deal ending decades of civil war with the north.

 

Comments

[David (DW)]

"and even Israel" sounds rather iffy.

[Mystical Time Traveler]

For over a decade Israel has been the destination for many refugees from Sudan. Their children have lived in freedom, receiving an education in the process.

The people of South Sudan have a great deal of love for Israel and Israelis.

[Debbie]

This is very good news and we need to acknowledge what this very new country is doing. But as you see, they are mostly Christian (not Muslim)and traditional African (not exactly sure the definition of that, apparently not radical Muslim)

Debbie