POLI 1501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yom Kippur War, Six-Day War, Henry Kissinger
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Camp david accords - two wars between israel and the u. s. U. s. and soviets have to stabilize their relationship or else they will have to fight each other over an issue that they don"t care about. Un said they should return these regions in turn for a peace treaty. Perception that land gives them more security than the offer of peace. Territory - get israel to return land to egypt. Peace treaty - get them to sign a peace treaty. Issue for carter: how to get israel to accept the security of a peace treaty. Include palestinians in future with other arab states. To make this work, the u. s. does two things: They both have security through american aid. Their job is to make sure there are no surprise attacks in sinai. Prevents possibility of surprise attack by either side. 1953 - u. s. helps restore the shah to power. Shah is a very loyal ally to the u. s.