South Sudan: It is a rare and truly remarkable honor to personally witness a nation come into existence
While many of Israel’s more veteran citizens were afforded the special, even amazing, opportunity to see our modern Jewish State attain independence, those of us in the younger generations lacked that direct personal experience. I thought of this as I flew to the new nation of South Sudan recently and began working to forge positive cultural and economic ties with the embryonic country’s leadership.
All students of international relations know that Sudan in particular, and northern Africa in general, are areas fraught with tension, famine and, all too often, bloody warfare. While many factors drive these desperate conditions, in Sudan the primary obstacle to peace and economic development has been the presence of dictatorial Islamic forces committed to suppressing minorities and stifling contacts with the West. Sudan has been the scene of repeated mass killings launched by the regime, today based...
