GOVT 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Walter Cronkite, Iranian Revolution, Al-Qaeda
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President sadat of egypt accidental" presidency after nasser death 1970. Get on good side of americans, desert soviets. Committed to comprehensive peace in middle east, including resolution of. Agreement in principle to return sinai to egypt, egypt @ peace with israel. Sadat makes speech saying he would go to jerusalem for peace, begin interviews with walter cronkite and invites sadat to jerusalem. November 19, 1977 sadat arrives in jerusalem. Carter jumps in and invites sadat and begin to camp david. Carter and sadat friends, have similar goals. Agreements: september 17, 1978: peace b/w israel and egypt, diplomatic recognition (nobody thought it was possible) in return for the sinai, more controversial second part- clearly avoiding the resolution of. Takeaways: negotiations are possible, americans are necessary. Peleg: this is the greatest achievement of american diplomacy. Major achievement, but did not solve some major problems. Since 1973 there has not been a major war in the middle east b/w arabs and.