Closing Thought–17Sep18
Forty years ago today, 17 September…..Pres, Carter, PM Begin and Egypt’s Sadat met for 2 weeks at Camp David and came away with a peace agreement signed by all sides…..
At the White House in Washington, D.C., Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords, laying the groundwork for a permanent peace agreement between Egypt and Israel after three decades of hostilities. The accords were negotiated during 12 days of intensive talks at President Jimmy Carter’s Camp David retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. The final peace agreement–the first between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors–was signed in March 1979. Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.
A state of war had existed between Egypt and the State of Israel since the establishment of Israel in 1948. In the first three Arab-Israeli wars, Israel decisively defeated Egypt. As a result of the 1967 war, Israel occupied Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the 23,500-square-mile peninsula that links Africa with Asia. When Anwar el-Sadat became Egyptian president in 1970, he found himself leader of an economically troubled nation that could ill afford to continue its endless crusade against Israel. He wanted to make peace and thereby achieve stability and recovery of the Sinai, but after Israel’s stunning victory in the 1967 war it was unlikely that Israel’s peace terms would be favorable to Egypt. So Sadat conceived of a daring plan to attack Israel again, which, even if unsuccessful, might convince the Israelis that peace with Egypt was necessary.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/camp-david-accords-signed
This was the closest the Middle East had come to peace in many years and within a short period….Sadat had been assassinated and Begin also….Carter was replaced with Reagan and from that point on peace was never on the agenda.
The world missed the perfect opportunity to have a lasting peace….and history has shown just how bad events have gotten since those days 40 years ago.
Didn’t find much surf time today, & have been dodging posts on politics (too stressful & dramatic for me; insanity is contagious…), but, wanted to say this: Jimmy Carter was the ONLY President during my lifetime, & really, of the entire twentieth century, who refused to involve himself in waging wars & actively worked AGAINST the agenda of those who control money, which depends upon war to perpetuate their power.
I’m just sayin’…
gigoid
Carter deserves better than the country has given him….just glad to see ya my friend….chuq
I always thought that Sadat signed his own death warrant, along with that agreement.
Best wishes, Pete.
I agree and Begin as well….Begin’s history was one of murdering Palestinians…..the agreement would have gone further but Reagan had to come along and the process was killed for the next 35 years and Trump is putting the nails in the process coffin chuq