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 subsequent announcement that the two countries will normalise relations has come as a shock.
Traditionally, Sudan has been among the Arab nations most hostile to Israel and the Sudanese public by and large retain this feeling. Last year, the country was swept up by a revolution pushing for dignity, justice, equality and democracy - principles that contradict Israel's oppressive, colonial presence in the region and its policy of colluding with dictatorial regimes.
The full article originally appears in Al Jazeera English.