Donald Trump has turned the Middle East upside down with a new peace treaty between Israel and Sudan.
In terms of concluding Arab-Israeli peace treaties, Trump is now the most successful US presidential peacemaker of all.
Certainly, his positive achievements dwarf those of the Barack Obama-Joe Biden administration, which was in office in Washington for eight years.
The Sudan deal was announced in a joint phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudan’s Prime Minister, Abdulla Hamdok, on Saturday AEDT. Netanyahu boldly declared: “It is a new world.”
The Sudan normalisation is the third Arab-Israeli peace treaty since August, the others involving the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Trump foreshadowed the possibility of a deal with Saudi Arabia in the near future. That would be Earth-shattering.
It is almost impossible to overstate the significance of these moves. They represent the collapse of the old Middle East paradigm, which imprisoned the Obama administration, and the Middle East itself, and which the EU continues blindly to cling to.
The UAE and Bahrain deals were so significant partly because they want not just a cold formal peace, as Egypt and Jordan have with Israel, but full social, economic and cultural normalisation of relations with Jerusalem.
Read the article by Greg Sheridan in The Australian.