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...“[Former Israeli foreign minister] Abba Eban once said nations are capable of acting rationally when they’ve exhausted all the alternatives....
...When in October 1973 Anwar Sadat surprised Israel, almost exactly 50 years before the latest surprise, his war aim was to demonstrate that Arabs could fight effectively and in doing so create the conditions...
...“Nobody knows why, but it shows the distrust because it’s surprising you move people like this who are very close to you — Trump style,” Mr Sadat says....
...on their assessment of the next stage – whether it’s what you could call cold war, or resuming negotiations,” said Yaakov Amidror, a former Israeli national security adviser and senior fellow at Begin-Sadat...
...Following on from this, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Israel’s prime minister, met with Carter at Camp David....
...A street in Tehran has been named after Khalid al-Islambouli, the Egyptian assassin who in 1981 gunned down Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian president who signed a peace accord with Israel....
...The PA has a historic opportunity to follow Egypt’s former president Anwar Sadat and Jordan’s late King Hussein, who signed treaties with Israel which stand to this day....
...The breakthrough at Sharm el Sheikh with Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad was one of psychological temper....
...Drawing comparisons with the visit to Jerusalem by Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1977, followed by the late King Hussein of Jordan, Mr Peres said that if President Assad visited Israel or invited the Israeli prime...
...Thirty years on from the surprise visit to Jerusalem by Anwar Sadat that stunned and delighted Israelis and led to peace with Egypt, last week’s first ever official visit to Israel by an Arab League delegation...
...Ehud Olmert, prime minister, and his government have reflexively rejected every Arab peace offer, whether from Saudi Arabia, Syria, the Arab League or Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president....
...State Security Emergency Courts, launched in 1981 following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat, continue to try political cases and significantly discourage popular political expression....
...Heikal’s link with political power was broken in the mid-1970s when he fell out with Nasser’s successor, Anwar El Sadat....
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